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Strategies for dealing with the loss of farms due to climate change with Maud Powell
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Maximizing the storage life of vegetables with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Growing seeds for sale or for your own farm with Dan Brisebois of Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm
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GrownBy: Building a cooperatively-owned farm marketplace app with Lindsey Lusher Shute
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Making compost out of food waste destined for the landfill with Nathan Rutz of Tilth Soil
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Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company
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Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!
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New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!
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How to help new farms get started with Rowan Steele of the Headwaters Farm Business Incubator Program
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Bazile Panek of Good Sky Guidance on respectful agricultural learning and collaboration with Indigenous communities
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Pest control by birds of prey with Alina Blankenship of Sky Guardian Falconry in Oregon
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Optimizing your online sales and marketing with Nina Galle, co-author of Ready Farmer One: The Farmer’s Guide to Selling and Marketing
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Nina Planck on replacing the industrial food chain with local foods values
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Advocating for the rights of farmers to sell directly to the public with Alexia Kulwiec, Executive Director of the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
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Learn from decades of natural farming experience with Jeff Poppen of Long Hungry Creek Farm in Tennessee
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From farm worker to farm owner with Virginia Herrera of Eloisa Organic Farm in Oregon
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How growers are using Farmhand, the first virtual assistant built for farmers, with Carolyn Givens of Something Good Organics, Melanie Cunningham of Shakefork Community Farm and Ari Memar of Farmhand
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Suburban farming on a small footprint with a full-time job with Michael Bell of Dallas Half Acre Farm in Dallas, Texas
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Designing with dried flowers with Hannah Muller of Full Belly Farm
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Training farmers for the future with an endowment from the past with Megan Larmer and Nicole Scott of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming in New York State
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How to make pick-your-own more profitable than other markets with Megan Neubauer of Pure Land Farm in McKinney, Texas
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Using data to identify profitable flower crops, biofumigation, and so much more with Bruno Maciel of Florista Lina Farm in Barcelos, Portugal
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Getting the most out of farmers markets with Catt Fields White of Farmers Market Pros
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Building a virtual assistant for market farms with Ari Memar of Farmhand
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Meet your new host, a special episode with April Parms Jones!
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Flexible CSA logistics: Alex Ball of Old City Acres in Michigan on out-of-home delivery, website customization, last mile logistics and so much more
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The rise of selling local food and flowers online with Cole Jones, founder and CEO of Local Line
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Going from dairy farming to vegetable farming with humor, wisdom, grit and lots of good farm advice with Jaymie Michelle Thurler of Rutabaga Ranch in Ontario
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Aquaponic flowers and leaving two successful careers to start a flower farm with Sarah Daken and Tom Precht of Grateful Gardeners
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Improving access to fresh food and farming in Chicago with Joshua Hughes of the Urban Growers Collective
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A fresh update on micronutrient fertility from the sea that was decades in the making with Michael Sileck of Sea-90 Ocean Minerals
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Streamlining the REKO ring model of pre-selling to the public with Tyler Taggart of REKO Hub
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Managing a diverse collective farm with Hannah Rose Weber and Nate Lada of Green Things Farm Collective in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Overcoming barriers for local food and farmers with Jean-Martin Fortier
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Creating community around food and farming with Brian Campbell and Crystine Goldberg of Uprising Seeds
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Becoming the face of your farm and breeding the Floret Originals varieties with Erin Benzakein of Floret
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Making natural liquid fish fertilizer from a fishing byproduct with Ann Molloy of Neptune’s Harvest
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How rootstocks increase yield and disease resistance in grafted tomatoes with breeder Martijn van Stee of Enza Zaden
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Growing a bioregionally adapted seed system with Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds in Oregon
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Making flowers accessible with a CSA, home delivery and more with Tracy Yang of JARN Co. Flowers in Washington State
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Breeding local food systems that are more resilient to climate change with Chris Smith of The Utopian Seed Project
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A lifetime of organic farming and activism with Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farm in Maine
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Growing a profitable flower business with Lisa Mason Ziegler of the Gardener’s Workshop
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Advanced greenhouse control and automation with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha
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Vegetable and flower farming on cooperatively owned land in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, with Angela and Paul Neufeld of Kingfisher Farm Market
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Why and how to automate your greenhouse for peace of mind and better production with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha
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Establishing a farm growing 40 different vegetable crops on 30 acres with Cole Mazariegos-Anastassiou of Brisa Ranch in California
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Quitting your job to grow flowers 52 weeks of the year with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey
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Quitting the corporate life to build Mount Liamuiga Farm in Colorado with Keshaun Joseph
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Balancing four different enterprises on a single family farm with Zoe Bradbury DeSurra of Valley Flora Farm in Oregon
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Growing a profitable flower farm with Lennie Larkin of B-Side farm and author of Flower Farming for Profit
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The best idea in local farming you’ve never heard of: the “farm stop” with Kathy Sample & Bill Brinkerhoff of Argus Farm Stop
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The farmer’s office: business skills you need to run a profitable farm with Julia Shanks
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Ways to keep pests and diseases in check without spraying with Dr. Surendra Dara of Oregon State University
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The Nourishing Asian Kitchen (and Farm!) with Farmer/Author Sophia Nguyen Eng
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The Lean Micro Farm with Ben Hartman of Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana
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Two decades of farm collaboration with Lyn Jacobs of La Finquita Del Buho and Polly Gottesman of Pumpkin Ridge Gardens
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PFAS contamination of farm soil with Caleb Goossen, Organic Crop Specialist at MOFGA
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Spreading risk through crop diversity on a new farm with Noah Poulos of Wild East Farm
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70 sustainable plants that will change the way we eat, with Kevin Hobbs and Artur Cisar-Erlach
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Urban flower farming with Mimo Davis and Miranda Duschack of Urban Buds City Grown Flowers
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Balancing farming on Whidbey Island and teaching farming in Seattle with Eli Wheat of SkyRoot Farm and The U of WA
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The Winter Market Gardener with Catherine Sylvestre of Ferme des Quatre-Temps
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Staying healthy through a lifetime of farming with Cynthia Flores of Labor-Movement
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Strategies for farming in clay with Nella Mae Parks of Nella Mae’s Farm in Cove, Oregon
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Part 2 of Managing your wash/pack system for safe, clean produce with Billy Mitchell, Chris Callahan and Andrew Chamberlin
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Managing your wash/pack system for safe, clean produce with Billy Mitchell, Chris Callahan and Andrew Chamberlin
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Overcoming adversity with Anthonie Conner of 4A Market Gardens in Torrington, Wyoming
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Breeding more flavorful vegetables with Culinary Breeding Network founder Lane Selman
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Building a honey farm business with innovative marketing, agritourism and education with Tara Chapman of Two Hives Honey
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Farm stress: strategies and resources for dealing with the mental health repercussions of farm-related stress with Anne Schwartz and Rachel Van Boven
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Planning and planting for the flower holidays with Dave Dowling
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Ground lease farm transfers and much more with Jeremy Barker Plotkin of Simple Gifts Farm
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Going from starting farms to editing Growing for Market Magazine with editor Andrew Mefferd: from farmer to editor (Part 2 of 2)
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Going from working on farms to running Growing for Market Magazine with editor Andrew Mefferd: From apprentice to farmer (Part 1 of 2)
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Reflecting on 50 years of Johnny's Selected Seeds with founder Rob Johnston
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Creating positive labor experiences for farm owners and workers with Sarah Janes Ugoretz of the FairShare CSA Coalition
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New podcast co-host special episode, with Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics!
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The Ecological Farm with farmer/author Helen Atthowe: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System
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Growing cut flowers six stories above the San Francisco Bay Area with Joanna Letz of Bluma Flower Farm
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Postharvest handling to maximize the storage life of vegetables
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Extreme heat on the farm: Exploring OSHA’s proposed heat rule
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How to start your own farm retreat
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Get the most out of gathering season
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Collective farm shops
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Why and how to grow culinary herbs all year round
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Equipment review: The AZS Rinse Conveyor
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Tackling condensation in walk-in coolers
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Running a successful flower CSA
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Building a geothermal greenhouse for winter flowers
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Sustainable packaging or greenwashing: Plastics, bioplastics, and no easy choice
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Tillage vs mulch in a permanent bed organic vegetable experiment
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Touring market farms in Japan
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Cybersecurity for farmers
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Using a Japanese hand hoe as a transplanting and weeding tool
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Gardenwild Floral Design profile
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Prevent summer decision fatigue with planning
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Greenhouse automation for better plant growth, fewer disasters and peace of mind
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Vermicomposting systems for market farms
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Flower farm no-till to pro-till
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Six simple steps to master your farm’s social media
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Touring market farms in Japan
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Morning Dew Farm profile
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Creating a farm risk register
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Better insect netting and how to fold it
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Profitable pricing strategies
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Improving soil quality and treating root pathogens with biofumigation
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Year-round flower farm pest management
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Small-scale orcharding on your vegetable or flower farm
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Assawaga Farm profile
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Low speed electric vehicles on the farm
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Developing youth farm team members
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Sharing tools and equipment
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Selecting the right seeder
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Lessons from a first-year no-till market garden
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Online farmers market
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Squeeze crops
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Eleven things we did to make our farm profitable (finally)
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Accessing underserved customers
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Ten questions to ask yourself before joining a farmers market
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Cash flow budgeting for farmers
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Getting a handle on glove selections for winter work
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Managing gray mold in cut flowers
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Crops, advantages and timing for caterpillar tunnels vs greenhouses
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The paperpot transplanter: Evolution of a tool with a human face
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Paperpot transplanter: farmers share advantages and limitations
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How we downsized our farm size by 2/3 without taking a pay cut
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Crop planning based on sales projections
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Plan for a summer vacation!
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How to increase worker retention on vegetable and flower farms
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Two-step bed flipping
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All about chrysanthemums
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Strengthening confidence and skills for farm managers and employers
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Mountain Sun Farm profile
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Know Your Cost To Grow
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The Utopian Seed Project
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Create your own crop plan and field manual
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Arranging dried flowers
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Jenny Jack Farm profile
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CAFF Small Farm Innovation Challenge
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Running a SARE farmer grant trial
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Strategies for dealing with fall brassica diseases
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Cute crops that make serious profits
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Go nuts! Diversify your offerings with nut trees
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DeWit seed bed rake-an appreciation
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Making the leap to farming full-time
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Planning and starting lisianthus from seed
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On the money: ten crops that earn their keep
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Love Is Love Cooperative Farm profile
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Unusual fruits and woodland crops
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Year-round carbon neutral greenhouse production
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Cooking school for your customers
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Tourne-Sol Co-operative Farm
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To low hoop or not to hoop?
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Benchmarking biodiversity on farms
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Growing flowers for all the major floral holidays
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Flower farmstand: If you build it, they will come
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No-till cardboard method: Thinking outside the box
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Strategies for farming in clay
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DIY rolling bed marker
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Cultural weed management
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How to establish and maintain living pathways between beds
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Review of The Two Wheel Tractor Handbook
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The economics of no-till garlic: A Beech Grove Farm case study
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Farm bookkeeping and budgeting
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No/low-till water conservation on high desert vegetable farms
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Winter flower farming: learn from our mistakes
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Flower farm incorporates agroforestry
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Farm Bill impacts for market farmers part II
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GrownBy sales platform is owned by and for farmers
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Tools for CSA sign-ups and member management
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Native plant nursery part 3: Equipment, labor, pricing and restoration projects
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Potting mix remixed: The dark side and solutions for these widely used materials
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How to dry flowers that come back from market
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Designing and Building A Passive Solar Propagation House
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Farm Bill programs up for review have an impact on market farmers
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Native plant nursery part 2: Propagation and growing
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Build your own bottom heated benches
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Pollinate Flowers farm
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Native plant nurseries part 1
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More ideas for DIY handcarts: #toolsforgrowingformarket
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Agrivoltaics: Putting the farm back in solar farms
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Pluk! CSA in Amsterdam
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Direct marketing flowers part 2: florists, brides and weddings
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Making great compost at scale: The tried and true windrow system
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Stall set-up and point-of-sale devices to expedite market check-out
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Alliums all year-round part 4: February, March and April
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Treehouse Farm Collective: One model for how multiple farms can share the same resources
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Direct marketing flowers part 1: Farmers markets and CSAs
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Tools and strategies to reduce time spent weeding
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Safflower as a cut green for arid climates
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The field box: Cut out trips back to the barn for commonly needed supplies
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Carbon credits reach down to small acreages
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Sowing the seeds of the next generation
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Birth and postpartum healing for the farmer
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Alliums all year-round part three: The onion family through the winter
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The Ode to the Earthway
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Do your end-of-year check-in before the season is over
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Becoming a flower farmer
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The hardest working farmhands
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Alliums All Year-Round Part 2
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Tracking Variable Costs and Yields
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Farming and pregnancy: Balancing the physical and emotional demands
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A rose obsession
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Field bindweed: A menace with admirable will to live
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Flame weeders on wheels
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Done by lunch: Creating supportive crew culture
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Why and how farmers protect their skin
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Potatoes: Pests, diseases, weeds and lifecycle
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Pink workhorses
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Alliums all year-round part 1: harvesting
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Member-harvested CSA runs on trust and efficient small-scale mechanization
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Profitable farm-to-table meals
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Evaluating marketing channels
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Dried flower wreaths for year-round sales and reduced waste
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How farmers in the south-central U.S. are adapting to a changing climate
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Hosting on-farm events
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The why and how of crop rotation planning
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Why organic rules matter, whether you’re certified or not
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Improving soil biology: Cover crops, compost and inoculants
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Farming small with a recipe for profit
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Subarctic climate change: Agricultural opportunities and threats
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The penetrometer: A simple tool to decrease tillage, labor and improve soil
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Write newsletters people want to read
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Crop succession planning for even harvests
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Leeks: A guide to the versatile winter workhorse
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Brownfield flower farms
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Slow Flowers 2022 floral insights and forecast
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Chicory salad mixes
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How farmers are adapting to a hotter, more volatile climate
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Tools to help you put the right price on your products
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Strategies for balancing parenting and farm work
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Transitioning to cover crops as the main source of fertility
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Favorite flowers from 2021
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The 3-point pallet fork: How did we ever get along without it?
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Plan for alliums all year-round
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A farmer’s guide to politics
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Planting and greensprouting potatoes
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Trap boxes for the scourge of winter growing- voles
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Soil: A living, breathing ecosystem
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Plan now for asparagus
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Tool safety tips for farmers | #toolsforgrowingformarket
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Tips for building a strong farm team
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Renting land to other famers
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A wintertime reset for our most important tool: our bodies
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Early season income with ranunculus and anemones part II
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Customers cut their own flowers at Curiosity Farm in North Carolina
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Ideas for storing row cover, and a cart to help
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Potato harvest and storage
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Low-plastic farming at Urbavore Farm in Kansas City, Missouri
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Climate change on farms in the Intermountain West
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Pop-up markets for the holidays
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Early season income with ranunculus and anemones
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Simple salad harvester and wooden bed shaper: #toolsforgrowingformarket
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How PNW farms are adapting to a hotter, drier, smokier climate
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Simple seedling bench plans
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Asian greens production
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Microbes for land repair: A 5-year eco-farming trial
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Red, white and bloom
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How farmers in the Upper Midwest are adapting to changing weather
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Learning with sensors
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Carrots from seed to storage
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Interplanting- make the most of your growing space
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Storefront CSA distribution
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Book Review: Build Your Own Farm Tools
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Vera Flora Farm
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Preserving the history of sustainable agriculture
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Low trellising ideas
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Book review: The Living Soil Handbook
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States across the country are promoting healthy soils
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Beat the heat in postharvest handling
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Our full diet CSA adventure
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Radicchio rising
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Effective and relatively inexpensive quick hitch system
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Tips for starting a farmstand
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Cannabis on the market farm
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Strategies for reducing plastic use on farms
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Rooftop farming on the rise
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What we learned from participating in the Pasa Soil Health Benchmark Study
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Hybrid Calendar-maps
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Demystifying the H-2A program
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Baltimore flower farmer embraces her community
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Set boundaries for CSA members and set yourself up for success
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Automated passive hoop house ventilation: #ToolsForGrowingForMarket
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Tips for selling produce online
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No-till bed flips and transplanting protocols
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How Southeastern U.S. farmers are coping with climate change
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Efficient, low-stress techniques for handling silage tarps
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Numbers to track progress
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Long-term vegetable storage part 4: Climate control
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Collards: The new kale?
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Thousands follow his trail without knowing who carved it
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The COVID year in flowers: Sunny Meadows Flower Farm reflects on a year like no other
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Greenhouse benchtop sprinklers
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The tale of Rossa di Milano onion: Peeling back the layers on the noble craft of open-pollinated breeding
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Shallions, bulbs, and edible flowers: Three crops from one fall planting of Dutch shallots
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Designing and building a long-term vegetable storage facility
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Optimizing the greenhouse environment for cut flowers
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Crop profit calculator
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Tips for avoiding storage rot in winter squash
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Growing sweet potato slips for sale or production
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Creating a positive farm workplace
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Sobering financial benchmarks for vegetable farms
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Farm-made compost sifter and spreader
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Farmers head into the woods: Agroforestry growing as a way to diversify farms
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Observations: an important tool for producing quality flowers
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30 years: a brief history of Growing for Market
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Building on the momentum from the first 30 years of Growing for Market Magazine
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Flowers, farm-dyed ribbons and a COVID-era co-op launch
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Cover cropping in no-till systems
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Setting goals, taking risks and prioritizing your time in an unsettled season
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The invisible knife sheath
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The evolution of no-till farming practices on Spring Forth Farm
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The balance sheet is an underused tool for managing seasonal cash flow
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Transitioning toward no-till: how one farm is reducing tillage in phases
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Wet seed processing and saving
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Dry seed processing and saving
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Why and how you should track bartering in your bookkeeping
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In-crop drip tape repositioning tool
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Dripping Springs Garden Farmer to Farmer Profile
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What would a lazy farmer do? Training for effectiveness and motivation
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A beginner’s guide to DIY wedding flowers
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Rag & Frass Farm: Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Flat dibbler with ideas for variations
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Consider putting all your eggs in one basket when selling flowers
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Two-way radio ga ga
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Singing Frogs Farm
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Make a plan now for flower sales and marketing
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How breeding and selling produce support each other on Green Bee Farm
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Member harvested CSA: Customers become farm crew
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Farm-made tall straddle cart
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Succession planning: retiring farmers keep the land in farming
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Learning about forcing chicories in Italy
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Preparing your farm for Hades or high water
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Quebec flower farm grows partnerships
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Long Hungry Creek Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Low-cost germination chamber built with almost no tools
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The magic of breakeven and how it can help set sales goals
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The grabber tool
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Let’s talk money
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Pleasant Valley Farm Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Seven habits of successful farmers
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Farmers look for a silver lining after record tornado hit their farm
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Driftless Organics Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Without organic, just regenerative isn’t enough
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Canadian ag recycling program an economical source of used tarps
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Beyond a barn raising
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Regenerative Organic
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Another way to run a REKO Market
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Why it's important to keep talking about discrimination in agriculture
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Add long-term vegetable storage to your farm
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REKO Ring: a new way to pre-sell online
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Cold-hardy woody perennials
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Next season's planning starts now
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Branded wholesaling
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Farmers market security: have a plan
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How to charge biochar for more resilient soil
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Breeding tomatoes on a farm: practical selection advice
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Selling hope and convenience
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On-farm tomato breeding: making crosses and managing projects
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Steps local growers can take to shine in a disrupted time
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Article cluster: on-farm crop breeding for climate resilience
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Growing hemp for the first time part two
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More ideas for adapting to COVID disruptions
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Sell seedlings for spring cash
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New Morning Farm profile
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Getting started with cut flowers part 2: production and harvest
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Is hemp an opportunity for market farmers?
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Breeding crops for resilience to a changing climate
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Crossroads Community Farm Farmer to Farmer Profile
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South Wind Produce Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Navigating partner relationships: working with your spouse
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How to know when to stop
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Bookkeeping programs: pros and cons of the various options
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Strategies for staying healthy and in business through the COVID-19 pandemic
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Market-based flex CSA
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Subarctic flower farming at Boreal Blooms
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Social and racial justice on farms
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New tool column #Toolsforgrowingformarket
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The more things change on the farm, the more they stay the same
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How to plan for a climate resilient farm
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No-till potatoes and sweet potatoes
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How do I cook this vegetable? When customers know what to do with the vegetables they come back for more!
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Getting started with cut flowers part 1: the why and how of it
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B-Side Farm Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Dried flowers are back
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U-pick hemp: when you have more than you want to harvest
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An open letter to aspiring ecological farmers
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Resources for social and racial justice in agriculture
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Improve your crew management with on-the-job self-training
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Radical Roots Farm
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New research on biochar and carbon farming
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Leaving the farm
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Understanding the basic ecology of mycorrhizal fungi to benefit your farm
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Crop coordination helps farms reach big markets through co-op
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Piracicaba: a flavorful broccoli that can take the heat
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The origins of a pioneering organic farm and the future of farming
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Spring tasks for two favorite crops: roselilies and lisianthus
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The search for the best row spacing
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How to set up grow lights instead of- or in addition to- a greenhouse
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47th Avenue Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Apples for veg and flower growers part 2
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How to know when to scale up
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Develop new customers with a sales funnel
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Lean Startup: learning from the questions
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Apples for vegetable and flower growers
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The cost of rounding down at market
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Growing hemp for the first time? Here are some guidelines on how to fertilize
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Tunnel soil has different testing and management needs from field soil
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Beech Grove Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Ellen Polishuk: lessons from 25 years of farming
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Feeding the soil: an excerpt from The Year-Round Hoophouse
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3D printing on the farm
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Longtime wildflower grower talks varieties and floral design
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Grow Dat Youth Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Fullness Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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How to use a free program for on-farm, in-field record keeping
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Over-the-shoulder harvesting bucket: Harvest hands-free and never bent over
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Static aerated compost pile heats right up without turning
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Systems for managing sales to florists
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Hoophouse squash and cukes for crop rotation
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Brookfield Farm: Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Growing customer-friendly CSAs in a crowded market
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The small farm’s multi-tool: Additional uses for water wheel transplanters
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Professionalizing- Reach more customers and higher profits
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Next year’s protected flower crop planning and ordering starts now
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You don’t need a high tunnel to grow ginger
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Sassafras Creek Farm- Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Top crops for profitable wholesaling
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An Introduction to Korean Natural Farming
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Two new no-till books mark the arrival of a movement
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GFM founder Lynn Byczynski honored by ASCFG
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Start Your Farm book excerpt: soil chemistry
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Chefs and events sell the vegetables at Paradigm Gardens in New Orleans
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Strategies to grow organic matter levels and reduce tillage at the same time
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In memory of Chris Blanchard
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Blue House Farm: Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Keeping the cash flowing: managing seasonal farm income
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Keys to profitable bouquets are planning and efficiency
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Protected culture flower planning
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Working together: Oregon multi-agency farmer development program grows farmers
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Farmer to Farmer Profile: Tumbling Shoals Farm
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Serving the underserved- how growers can connect with low-income customers
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Differences between a bookkeeper and a CPA and when to use which
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Farmer to Farmer Profile: Bluma Flower Farm
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Plant density for single and muli-row systems
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The best social media for your farm probably isn’t what you think it is
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Streamlining for employees: increase morale, save time
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Too much of a good thing: compost brings phosphorus challenges to Red Earth Farm
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Spring favorites ranunculus and anemones
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Chicken-till and occultation: No-till methods store carbon in the soil, not the air
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Going to see your accountant shouldn’t be like pulling teeth
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High Ground Organics: Farmer to Farmer Profile
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Wholesale with confidence by calculating your unit cost
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The many decisions behind building a cut flower greenhouse
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In-ground greenhouse heat is an efficient, DIY option
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The advantages of growing pole beans instead of bush beans
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Growing at Nature’s Pace Organics
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Simple ideas for better pack shed furniture
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Rural online farmers market: a model for the future
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Are you trying to track too much? It’s a common bookkeeping mistake
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Farmer to farmer profile- Richard Wiswall
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Healthcare beyond hospitals: farm-hospital connections
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Understanding early blight
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Co-op helps small growers thrive in a big market
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Winter cut flower planning
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The man behind the tomatoes: Fred Hempel of Artisan Seeds
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Setting up drip irrigation
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Worm-till: how to use cardboard and occultation instead of tillage
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Quackgrass control without chemicals
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Food safety rule in effect: does FSMA apply to you?
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Desert perennials: floral design Southwest-style
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Don’t burn that brush pile- char it
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Farmer to Farmer profile: Fifth Crow Farm
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Strategies for long-term hoophouse soil fertility
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Advice from chefs on selling to restaurants
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Decoding cucumber varieties
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Dahlias from planting to digging
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Whoa-till: minimum-depth tillage for the dryland market garden
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Don’t have a market? Make one!
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Biochar-based potting soil recipe
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Italy’s thriving agricultural co-ops
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Innovative winter CSA models lead to summer member retention
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On-farm trials show the promise of biochar
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Become the face of your farm
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Farming lean with paper pots
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Gus Schumacher: farmers markets for all
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William’s Wildflowers
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Re-purposed used silage tarps: surprisingly affordable, versatile
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Advanced no-till mulching and crimping techiques
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Retreat!
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Go big: floral installations for weddings and events
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Off the beaten berry path
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Farmers market metrics
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European cultivation tools: modernizing the familiar
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Triage farming
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New tools for managing wholesale relationships
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Promote your flowers this summer with American Flowers Week
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If you want to make a profit know your cost of production
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Dealing with salt buildup in hoophouse soils
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What we can learn from European farmers
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Moveable tunnels with in-ground hydronic heat
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Summer lettuce lessons from Southern growers
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Native perennials for flower farms
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Upgrading the greenhouse covering
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Seed: a hot-climate summer hoophouse crop
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First-year winter farm budget
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Preparing and turning over no-till permanent beds
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Schedule two hours every week for busy-season marketing
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Scaling up the flower farm
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Fertility tips and foliar testing to maximize high tunnel crops
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Production improvements for husk cherries
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Every farm is unique; define success your own way
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The lost art of cultivating with walk-behind tractors
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Managing a cash crisis
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Sweet potato propagation and production updated
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DIY mobile cooler has many uses
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Welcome to the no-till revolution
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Bio-integrated farm design
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The "other" reasons to grow in a greenhouse
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Make your mark with local branding
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New flower varieties to try in 2017
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Rudbeckia- the unsung hero of summer bouquets
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Winter crop on-farm breeding update: lessons learned after 15 more years
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Year one decision making- starting a farm with only one implement
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How to decide which crops to grow
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Food hubs: growth and growing pains
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Hoophouse style and design considerations
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Common financial mistakes farmers make and how to fix them
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Online weather tools for farmers part 2
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This year resolve to grow only what you can sell
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Flower production on a small vegetable farm
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Favorite perennials for flower growers
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Phenology for farm planning
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Online weather tools for farmers
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Mill logs into lumber on your own farm
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Consider growing cukes umbrella style
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How to grow heading chicories
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Teach customers to buy your unusual crops
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Strategies for growing in clay
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Getting started with biological pest control
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New! Children's books
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New books for cut flower growers
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Put the right price on your products
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Building a local flower movement
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The place for this cookbook is on your market stand
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Matching sales to production: If you only look at one report every week, make it this one
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Frozen Ground 2016: Winter growing conference recap
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Omena Cut Flowers
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Farmers market designed with low-income customers in mind
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How to manage urban and other difficult soils
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New books combine market farming and permaculture techniques
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Lisianthus revisited by popular demand
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Moveable hoophouse 5 years out: Comparing homemade vs. kit
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Increase farmers market sales with the “wow factor”
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This summer, think of a topic for a SARE farm research grant
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Grains for vegetable and flower growers
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New book demystifies financials for growers
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Flower farming without plastic
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Consider chestnuts: a potential perennial for market farms
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Winter and early spring hoophouse harvest planning
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There’s an app for that: two new smartphone programs for farmers
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The next build in the small farm sector: resilient relational systems
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Starting a flower farm: The importance of ignorance
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Advice for managing a farmers market
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Pest control in greenhouse flowers
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Elderberry and Aronia: Two crops you may not have thought, or even heard, of
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Success in the field starts in the office
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Keep food safe at farmers markets
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IPM tools for small and organic farms
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Protect plants with shade cloth, insect mesh
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Integrated pest & disease management is a battlefield
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Plan to make more money this year
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Cater to the special needs of flowers at harvest
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Planning and siting your hoophouse
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Edible landscaping: a business helping city dwellers grow food
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Tips for an efficient bouquet business
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Oats, an easy-going cover crop
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Why I stopped selling produce...and started selling convenience
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Hydroponics: pros, cons and controversy
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Selling flowers to supermarkets
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Turmeric: like ginger, but not
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Adding shiitakes to a market farm
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Experiment with ‘Eat-All Greens’
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How to grow microgreens
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Disease in the winter greenhouse
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Planning successions in the hoophouse
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Financial statements, Part 2 How to gather the data that will provide meaningful information
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Talk about money with other farmers
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The lure of ginger Growers love it, but it’s not easy
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Copper-based fungicides and soil health
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Financial statements every farm should use
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Start now for next spring’s flowers
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Farmer networking groups flourish
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Fences for all types of wildlife
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A vision and plan for a calm, orderly farm
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Using images to help you manage the farm
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Dry flowers & grains to extend season
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From zero to $100k in 2 years
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New tool helps you select cover crops
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Checklist for a successful garlic harvest
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Together forever? Learning to farm as a couple
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Build your business with photographs
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Growing muskmelons, a.k.a. cantaloupes
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A small farm in Ireland
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Two options to keep records in the field
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Proliferation of microbreweries creates abundant supply of mulching material
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Farming with a family The practicalities of growing from a 2-person to a 3-person farm
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Foliage makes flowers special
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Salad greens for hot summer weather
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Cottage food laws create opportunity
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Aspirations for the CSA movement
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Know your knots
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Planting bulbs quickly and often
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Preparing for pesticide contamination
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Greens that can take the heat
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Organic management of spotted wing drosophila
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Six strategies for preventing weeds
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Weed control in cut flower fields
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Podcasts: a diversion from tedious tasks
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A trouble-free pickle alternative
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Greenhouse peppers, part 2
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A new way to propagate sweet potatoes
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Beyond kale: dealing with a seed shortage
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Top flowers for supermarkets & florists
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New seed search engine launched
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Celtuce: trending with chefs
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High-yielding greenhouse peppers
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Don’t be afraid of bare-root transplants
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Make your CSA more profitable
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Heirloom mums are back on track
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A Farm to School program for smaller growers
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Eggplant can be a profitable crop for the hoophouse or greenhouse
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Giving a talk? Don’t be nervous!
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How & why to treat seeds with hot water
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Assessing the paper pot transplanter
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Peony disease prevention starts now
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Peony care in fall pays off in spring
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Debunking misconceptions about solar
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Nematodes in the hoophouse
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Stock: a valuable hoophouse crop
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Austrian winter peas: last-chance cover crop
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Greenhouse upgrades save energy
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Solar co-op trims installation costs
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Eight tips for winter success
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Plant now for Mother’s Day
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Irrigation and compost pose food safety risks
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How to use clovers as cover crops
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Hoophouse ventilation
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Bulbs, corms, and roots for spring blooms
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Farming on one foot: Preparing for adversity
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Minnesota farm owned by a natural foods co-op
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A heat-loving crop: sweet potatoes
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Marketing strategies for culinary garlic
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Guidelines for setting flower prices
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French ‘autoconstruction’ movement arrives and takes the farm hack to a higher level
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Easy, unusual asparagus beans
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The creepy threat of Lyme disease
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Keep leafy greens safe in summer
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Organization and planning for weddings
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Blueberries, one of the best fruit crops
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Finding a new pest and a silver lining
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Determine your labor costs and use the information wisely
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Tool review: The Tillie, a battery-powered tiller
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Pruning crops for health and yield
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Managing multiple markets and weddings
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Finding good employees, part 2
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Where to use organic and plastic mulches
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Tips for choosing the right delivery vehicle
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Taking the stress out of urban deliveries
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Watering & fertilizing hoophouse tomatoes
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Enter our contest; you could win a Tillie
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Finding favorites among plumed celosias
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Herbs, Part 3: Postharvest handling
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How to find, hire good workers
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Excluding insects from a hoophouse
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Book review: Living the dream: A full-time livelihood on 1.5 acres
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Farmers oppose soilless organics
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Six best tools for the market garden
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Rating celosia: a 59-variety trial
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Crop spacing should fit specific goals
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Herbs, Part 2: Harvest & maintenance
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Greenhouse tips for hoophouse growers
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Testing the limits of cold tolerance
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Scaling up the flower farm
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Resolve to take better photos this year
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The status of SNAP at farmers markets
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Planning your harvest schedule
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Fresh cut herbs for wholesale markets
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How we made lisianthus one of our top crops
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The toughest part of food safety: water
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Guest editorial: Flaws in the proposed produce safety rules
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Basics of no-till for vegetables
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Get high tunnels ready for snow
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Neonicotinoids blamed for bee deaths
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The pollinator crisis: how farms can help
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Cash flow projections avert disaster
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The sauna method of germinating seeds
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Customization keeps CSA members happy
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Nitrate accumulation in winter greens: the dangers and how to minimize them
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Farms get financing on crowdfunding websites
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Crop planning for flower farmers
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Biological soil amendments and food safety
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New disease reported in hoophouse tomatoes
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Finding a sustainable strawberry system
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Farm infrastructure: What & when to build
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Order these spring beauties now
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Useful tools for the hoophouse
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Last-chance crops to sow now
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Understanding irrigation pumps
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Mid-season CSA break spreads the workload
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Fair Field Flowers: 10 years of growing together
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Food safety issues posed by animals
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Buckwheat: an ideal summer cover crop
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Vegetative and generative crop steering
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Scales are useful tools on the market
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40 acres & 15 college kids Thoughts on managing workers for 31 years
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Learning from great designers
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Food safety: equipment & buildings
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A sensible approach to crop budgets
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Extending the harvest season for edamame
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Increasing tomato yield
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‘Lean’ principles applied to a farm
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A visit to Texas Specialty Cut Flowers
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The human element of food safety
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Growing fennel — bulb, herb, pollen
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A simpler way to use round bales
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Qliprs for hoophouse tomatoes, cukes
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New head lettuces are designed for salad mix
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New flowers worth a look this year
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Straight talk about food safety
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A better way to track weather on your farm and in your greenhouse
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Parsnips are easy to grow and reliable
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REAPing the benefits of solar power
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Manage the hoophouse for more tomatoes, cukes
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An Interview with Jennie Love
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Move transplants easily with farm-built pallets
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Making good decisions under pressure
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Capturing info — then using it
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Book reviews Two new guides to re-learning important skills
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Help CSA members eat their veggies
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In search of heat-tolerant lettuce
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The proposed food safety rule and your farm
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Growers create their own wholesale market for local flowers in Seattle
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Understanding one of the few insecticides for organic growers
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8,000 miles and 18 farmers markets
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More strategies for dealing with a changing climate
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Identify your biggest money-making crops
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Tool Review: The Quick Cut Greens Harvester
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Introducing the inventor of the greens harvester
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Learning to grow flowers under cover
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Pedal power around the farm
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Growers offer immigrants familiar vegetables
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A celebration of the world’s best foods
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Better bookkeeping
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Tips for using the Forums
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A farmer’s take on dressing for success
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Understanding and predicting conditions
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Frost takes out the flowers, but there’s more work
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Pedal-powered pea sheller & solar mister
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Farmers market essay winners selected
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Breeding better veggies for organic farms: Organic Seed Alliance teaches growers seed production, variety improvement
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Organic law turns 10
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Disease suspected in some garlic
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A flower farm with a wedding theme
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Small town develops a local food hub
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Building resilience into farm systems
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Surviving stress in a tough year
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Farmers Market Inspiration Award Winner
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Roxbury Farm manuals available online
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Revitalizing an old market Grand Rapids, Michigan, updates with a shelter and internet access for vendors
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Get ready for garlic planting
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Strategies for efficient harvesting
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Excerpt from Small Farm Equipment: Irrigation pumps
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A new book to teach you — or help you teach others — about farm equipment
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Dealing with extreme heat in the hoophouse
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Garlic postharvest at Honeyhill Farm
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How to make a bridal bouquet
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Food hubs open new markets for farms
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It’s time to harvest garlic!
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Caring for the tomato crop
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Setting prices for maximum profits
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Reasons, tools for raising beds
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Succession plant summer squash
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Favorite things on a flower farm
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Book Review Urban farmers teach how to grow in small spaces
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Keeping food safe at farmers market
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Improve your soil, improve your flowers
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To spend or not? How to decide
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Get your watermelons when it’s hot
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A riveting memoir of an organic farmer
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Advice on apprenticeships from a grower who has been on both sides
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Warm weather and insect pests
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Salt buildup in high tunnels
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Succession planting is the key to having flowers all season long
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Tomatoes that take the heat?
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Tips for tomato growers
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The best cukes for hoophouses
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Tips for preventing injury
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New legal entity a good fit for markets
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Entrepreneurs and for-profit markets
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New cut flowers for 2012
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Developing tools for small farms
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Calculating how much to grow
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Take care when planting fruit
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The Holistic Orchard: a patient teacher
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Grafted tomato transplants: a new economic opportunity
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How to choose tomato varieties
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Inexpensive caterpillar tunnels give flowers a six-week head start on spring
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Learn how to manage pests ecologically
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Old-fashioned hotbed provides free heat for germinating
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Free tool helps with food safety audits
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Reducing the work of CSA
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A farmer’s parting gift
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Pros and cons of winter markets
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2011 trials yield new favorites
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Storing vegetables without electricity
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The economics of eggs on a veggie farm
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Digital photography for recordkeeping
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iPhone farming
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Pink – A new color for a new food crop
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Lot numbers: How we create codes and what we can track with them
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Readers raise safety issues from Oct. articles
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Passing the GAPs
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Eliminate weeding with landscape fabric
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Book review Small-Scale Poultry Flock offers good advice for market farms
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Dependencies: What resources must be bought
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Metalworking skills, tools come in handy
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Favas: the bean for cool weather
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Make your CSA recession-proof
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Housing poultry in the greenhouse
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Getting cover crops planted
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Ranunculus: A cheerful crop to plant in the hoophouse now for spring bloom
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Food hubs help small growers sell to large wholesale buyers
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Tips for planting with the Planet Jr.
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Radishes for every season
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Direct seeding in the fall hoophouse
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Start biennials now for next spring
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Essential equipment for a small farm
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Growing turnips and rutabagas
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Fall-planted annual strawberries
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Waterpenny Farm Tour
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Host a farm tour without the work
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Quick hitches improve safety, efficiency
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Specialty daffodils start the season
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The many benefits of cooperative CSA
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Keep the okra coming all summer long
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Voices of experience: Make the decision to grow in winter
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Hoophouses create opportunity for fall strawberries
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Guest editorial: Is it time to re-invent your farmers market?
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Local food to colleges
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A different kind of home delivery service
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DIY tractor
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More filler flowers to bump up bouquets
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California organic farm’s equipment is bigger, but not radically different
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New food safety regs take market vendors in PA by surprise
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New, devastating stink bug is spreading across the U.S.
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Cucumbers: Easy except for the pests, diseases
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Tribal: Benefits of living with young workers
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Home delivery: competitor or ally?
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Herbs add fragrance, texture to bouquets
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Interns provide more than labor
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Succession planting for months of green beans
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How wide should your beds be?
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Tweets, fans & followers: Today’s farm marketing
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Growing your CSA: What size is right?
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Dahlias are well worth the investment
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Diversify crops, markets, seasons
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A solution to market crowding
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Growing spring broccoli
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Hearty Roots Farm: What it takes to grow 18 acres of vegetables
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Grafted tomatoes: worth the trouble?
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Your website is your best marketing tool
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Bet on hoophouse raspberries for late-season profits In their first year, berries produced all the way till Thanksgiving
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How we figured out our most profitable crops
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New ways to think about weeds
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Equipment required for 16 acres of veggies
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The next big thing: Selling to hospitals
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Bouquet business requires careful planning
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Cultivate a signature crop
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CSA software: Why live without it?
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Selling young plants at farmers markets
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Essential equipment for 10-plus acres
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Scaling up local food What it takes on the farm and in the markets
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Wreaths, centerpieces finish the season
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BADSEED: Sharing the joys of urban farming
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Spreadsheets simplify crop planning, recordkeeping
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Tools and gizmos for gift-giving
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Common greenhouse problems — solved!
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The scientific truth about garlic varieties
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Plant bulbs now for bountiful spring bouquets
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Customize garden carts for farm tasks
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Can politics and tomatoes mix? Farmer and customer debate the use of campaign signs at a roadside market
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New insurance program offers both general liability and product liability for farmers market vendors
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A quick and easy way to cover hoophouse crops
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Tips on using spreadsheets for crop planning
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Late in the tomato season, there’s still work to do and $$$ to be made
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Fall ornamentals bring late-season cash
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Crop spacing affects more than yield
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New tomato varieties resistant to late blight
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Managing caterpillars organically
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Seventh-inning stretch
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Vegetables that can take the cold
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Wedding flowers, part 2: Prices, estimates, contracts
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Choose the best spreader for your fertility needs
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Set your financial goals
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Book review: New book outlines 11 steps to success
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Hoophouse crops for winter harvest
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Take credit cards at farmers market with iPhone
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Wedding flowers profitable, but time-consuming; figure out the level of service you can offer brides
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Plan a long season of sweet corn
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Using hoes for maximum weed control
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Plow pan may be cause of reduced yield, stunted growth in plants
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New resources, ideas on setting prices
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An inexpensive substitute for a refrigerated truck
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More feedback on the growth of super-CSAs
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It's easy to fall in love with lilacs
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Many kinds of weeds, many kinds of hoes
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Winter squash extend the season
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Greens all winter, even at -35°F
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Letters from Readers
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New strategies for great-tasting tomatoes
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Scheduling crops in the hoophouse
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Romantic roses for cutting
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Even California winters benefit from hoophouses
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Sharpen your tools for greater efficiency
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Beets and carrots: what you need to succeed
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What’s ahead for CSA? Some growers worry as CSAs get ever larger
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Equipment to make root washing easier
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Welcome new additions to summer bouquets
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Building an efficient wash station
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Growing peas, even where it’s hot
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Movable hoophouses: the next generation
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A quest for long-stemmed sweet peas
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Free crop planning software
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Mapping crops on a spreadsheet
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Celery and celeriac: seeding is the hardest part
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Don’t heat the whole greenhouse
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A daughter reflects on her family farm’s lessons
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Managing hoophouse soils, weeds, pests, disease
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High tunnel innovations
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Take dahlia cuttings now for hoophouse planting
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Water greenhouse plants automatically
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Advice for winter down time: go to school and learn a skill
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Steps for successful planning
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Urban farms start to meet with resistance
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Hoophouse update: most profitable uses
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Readers reveal profitable flowers: Low maintenance is an important factor for these unique cuts
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Build your own drip tape winder
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How one customer revolutionized our CSA
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Make the most of your seed investment: How to store, inventory and order seeds
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Build your own walk-in cooler
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Get ready for GAPs
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Threshing beans and grains
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Sea holly and its many cousins
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Book review Words of wisdom about making a farm profitable
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Rhubarb and asparagus
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Ideas from Japan
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New tool makes strong hoops for overwintering crops
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Farm for profit, not production
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Food Safety: Let's work on this together!
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Produce implicated unfairly in CSPI study
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Converting lawns for willing homeowners, market farmers find land in urban yards
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New! Basil downy mildew hits U.S. crops
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Farm-built bins and racks help harvest
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Pesticides of essential oils sound great, but do they work?
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Flower growers report decent sales, but some big changes in markets
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Winter Cover Crop Chart
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Get help from cover crops this winter
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Book Review: Small Scale Grain Raising
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Growing grains for local markets
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Storage chart, custom cookbooks will answer customer questions
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Cut Flowers and a Quick Turnaround
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Save time, back strain with a pallet fork
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Time for fall and winter spinach
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Book review: A guide to organic bees
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Earn money from your beehives
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Tips to help you avoid market fatigue
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Online markets on the rise
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FDA 'guidances' issued
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The late blight scourge
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Flowers lost to seed industry changes
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Try a quick crop of Asian greens
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The dark side of taking credit cards online
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New program recommends crops to grow for the cuisines of immigrant groups
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Refugees boost local farm movement
-
Overhead irrigation that is easy to move
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The freshest sweet corn at market
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Blogs, Twitter, Facebook New marketing tools and how to use them
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Make zinnias one of your most profitable crops
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Dibblers make planting easier, neater
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Pepper primer: Everything you need to know to succeed with sweet peppers
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Don’t let the rain get you down!
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Mix it up with colorful cherry tomatoes
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Make a connection with chefs, caterers
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Basil is great in bouquets — if you choose the right varieties
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Tools that make direct seeding easier
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Southern peas, lima beans for fresh and dried use
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How to raise bees — and why
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What to expect when the markets open
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Book review: The Winter Harvest Handbook makes an important contribution to farm viability
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Quick hoops help extend the season
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Plant extra seeds now and sell cut flower plants next month
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Tips for buying the best mechanical transplanter
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The secret to perfect leeks
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An introduction to growing seed for yourself or for sale
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The need for seed: Growth of organics creates big demand; Could growing seed be in your future?
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Blue flowers from the Campanula family
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How to choose organic pest controls
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Growth of urban farms is a return to historical roots
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Why organic farmers quit
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Market-style CSA distribution
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AGR-Lite insurance program
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Showcase your wares in wood
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Plan now for a great market presentation
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New cut flower varieties for 2009
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A movable high tunnel
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Upside-down fire will burn for hours
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Should markets tell growers how much to charge?
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How to schedule transplants
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Rooftop gardening is looking up
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Bottom heat in the greenhouse
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How to build an underground root cellar
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Finally, a guide to growing woody plants for cutting
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Elderberries are a promising new crop
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Italian potato digger does the job
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Long Island farmers credit CSA for success
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Seeking young farmers
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Dealing with the economic downturn
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Golden Earthworm Organic Farm
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Keep farmers markets safe
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Specialty tulips: Worth the extra cost?
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Farming in Paradise: British Virgin Islands
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Root cellars provide long potato storage
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Is composting an agricultural business?
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Cultipacker: good tool for cover crops
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Turn customers into food activists
-
Callicarpa bears purple berries in fall
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Our dear deer fence: worth the price
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How to have veggies year-round
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Letter from the Editor: Economic Downturn
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A better sidewall for high tunnels?
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Three post-harvest problems in zinnias
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Interview with Mary Jane Butters
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Letter from the Editor: Getting to local sustainability
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How to get beds ready for planting
-
Free speech at the farmers market
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Letters from Readers: Tomato trellising
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How to choose the best delphinium varieties
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Spice up your summer greenhouse with ginger
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The humble kohlrabi: easy to grow and store
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Basic tools for mechanical cultivation
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Nitrogen increases pathogen risk
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Oregano-based antimicrobial
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The hunt for salmonella
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Greenwashing success
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Letter from the Editor: Wal-mart and local food
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Equipment eases physical pains
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Great bouquets require winter planning
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Hold the heat! Winter production may be risky
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Do flowers pose a liability issue?
-
Scenes from the California flower industry
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You have to get out there and plant now if you want flowers next spring!
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Second-generation flower farmers adapt to new trends in horticulture
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Switching to vegetables, we have discoveries
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Grower’s tip: New life for old appliances
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New crops prove to be big money-makers
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Flower variety news
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Flower farm thrives in D.C. market
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Solarize soil to burn out weeds and diseases
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Flower farm becomes a destination
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Godetias are easy, once you understand
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Plan now for bouquets all summer
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Poinsettias come back in style as cut flowers
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Specialty Cut Flowers: New varieties are worth a try this year
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Beware of herbicide residues in compost
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Histories, qualities help sell potatoes
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Lessons learned at farmers’ markets
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Take softwood cuttings now for next year’s sales
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Tips for germinating seeds in summer
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Farmers markets find solutions to waste problem
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Raising prices in tough times
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Weeds: the forgotten good food
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America’s working Gs
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Coop sells at farmers’ markets: Members sell at three markets, but have to attend only one
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‘Commuter farmer’ leads a double life
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Plan now to add herb plants to your markets in spring
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Studies show need for local food
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Choose row cover carefully to meet needs
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Trials, triumphs of two farmers’ markets
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The search for organic no-till
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Kaolin use increasing on vegetables, fruits
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Organic apples easier with kaolin clay
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Garlic not easy, but it can be profitable
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Tensiometers take guesswork out of irrigating
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Hoophouses prove profitable
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Hybrid mulch system works
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Teachers find time to farm
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Safety of vermiculite is still in question
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Hire your children and get tax breaks
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Five lessons for parents, from a former farm kid
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‘Farm community’ kept her coming back
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Should you make your children work?
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Here’s where to find supplies for a great display at your farmers’ market
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Reader shares expertise on flame weeding, trellising
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Don’t let cabbage butterflies alarm you; it’s the caterpillars you should worry about
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You can conquer field bindweed!
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Amaranth: from pigweed to politics
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10 ways to fill that cool greenhouse profitably
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Keep your greenhouse cool
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Sweet peppers are a great crop for farmers markets
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Restaurants still paying a premium for heirloom tomatoes
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Fall flower finale requires June planning
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Letter from Wild Onion Farm
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The hoophouse in summer
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Accepting food stamps at market: Good for everyone
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Direct marketing accidents do happen
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Coop CSA works for part-time farms
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Help employees create own items to sell at your markets
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Increase spring revenue by growing lesser-value crops under row cover
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Strawberries 101: Planting the matted-row system
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Guest editorial: Land trust model offers security for new farmers
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties
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How long have seeds been organic?
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Interns explain desire to work on farm
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How to deal with pesticide drift
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Grow great onions - Part Two
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Grow great onions - Part One
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Leafcutter bees can be raised for profit
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The small winery: another direct marketing enterprise
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Churches’ support helps co-op thrive
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Life estate: A model for retirement
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From 0 to 500 in five years: Wisconsin farmers grew their CSA quickly so that they could farm full time
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Too many tomatoes!
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Young farmer describes his arrangement with landowner
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Farmers Market Coalition organized
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Peonies: Supply, demand and prices
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Garlic scallions, scapes and harvest how-to
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Selling to chefs: Chicories
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Flowering dates at Thoreau's home
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Food and carbon footprint
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Letter from the Editor: Alaska
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How to graft tomatoes
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Graft tomatoes, especially heirlooms, for greater yield and disease resistance
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New cut flowers for 2008
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Stretching prevents injury, pain
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How and Why We Recycle Our Used Plastic
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Growing with biodegradable mulch
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Letters from Readers: Flea and tick products
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Federal programs discourage expansion of local food production
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Don't lower prices - donate your extras
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Aronia 'Super Berry' could be a super crop
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Establish a system for tending to perennial fruits
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Old-fashioned annuals that you can plant now for early summer bloom
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Letter from the Editor: Green marketing
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High tunnels: High yields, high quality
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From horse trailer to Flower Wagon
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Potatoes to succession plant
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Lay-down weeding cart saves grower's back
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The Flower Farmer revisited
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Start plants in February for earliest sales
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Flowers for the elderly
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New cut flower varieties for 2003
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Hydrangeas are easy cut flowers
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Can you make money on Tulips?
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Carefree herbs to use as cut flowers
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Plant flowers in July for fall harvest
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Flower subscriptions prove profitable
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Dahlias simplified: An expert tells how to grow them
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Alstroemeria and Crocosmia for advanced flower growers
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Tips for marketing Celebration flowers
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New flowers to grow in 2002
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Wedding flowers: Profitable headache
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Delivery truck can be a mobile ad
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Frozen tomatoes keep cash flowing
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Moving to a new farm
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Six ways to legally organize your business
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Brix: The new label for quality
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Lettuce all summer, despite heat
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Are we having fun yet? Reasons to laugh about farming
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British company introduces inexpensive high tunnel system
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Greenhouse raspberries are a high-value crop
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Hiring a good farmers market manager
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Market for seed expands
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Seed saving, Part 3: Genetic management
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Seed saving, Part 2: The tasks detailed
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Saving seed makes sense
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Fishing line, kites will scare birds
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Farmer creates alternative to National Organic Program
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Sweet corn all summer!
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Implements make wheel hoe more versatile
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U.S. farmers help abroad
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Lightning safety means knowing where to go in storm
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Farmers market pavilions shelter growers from loss of income
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Resilience and balance should be primary goals on small family farms
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Farming solo: Systems for the one-person farm
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Lawyer explains liability issues at farmers’ markets
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Heirloom tomatoes vary in yield
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Plasticulture without equipment
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Couple calls landscape fabric ‘the marriage saver’
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Tips from a champion gopher trapper
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Fruit share adds to CSA’s bottom line
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Beginning Farmer program helps apprentices buy their own farms
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Small-scale Christmas tree grower finds a market
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Seeders make the job easier
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When no-till won’t work, try ridge-till
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California CSA recounts lessons learned during difficult early years
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Beneficial insects win respect in greenhouse
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Mobile greenhouse a plus for Canada farm
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Fire your weeds!
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Kids' visit is an exercise in understanding
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Protected agriculture proves its worth
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New markets, more markets, and shakeouts
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Frequent-buyer party was the event of the season
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How do you teach quality?
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Language skills come in handy when selling to restaurants
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Herbs, crafts and prepared foods fill winter markets
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Growing kids in the garden
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Late-season cash flow: grower describes products that make winter markets profitable
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Establishing fall crops requires extra planning
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Hasta mañana and other measures of time
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Don't let the IRS call your farm a hobby
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Flexibility helps farmer change focus
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NY nonprofit keeps on cutting edge of sustainable ag
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New market shows what it takes
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Letters from readers: Beware Asclepias
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Different words impart nuances of meaning
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How to grow a quick crop of sprouts
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Nebraska growers make use of fall, spring
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Sweet smell of manure
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Letter from the Editor: Extending the Season
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Keep selling into winter
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Cut flowers: Zinnia post-harvest revealed
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Beyond Spanglish: No snickering
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Grower saves fall leaves for next year's tomatoes
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Not just season extension: Hoophouses saved their season
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Clopyralid herbicide is widespread
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A small-market success story
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Vegetative propagation for cut flower growers
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Beyond Spanglish: the Spanish suffix
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Gizmos: Drip tape winder
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Working with health department pays off
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Clopyralid will be a problem for the foreseeable future
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Letter from the Editor: Buying cooperatives
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CSA members on the farm
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Meeting the challenge of farmers' market competition
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Beyond Spanglish: Be specific about where things go
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Super-productive CSA also helps hungry
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Letter from the Editor: Shopping at farmers markets
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How to improve flavor
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Yarrows great cut flowers for local sales
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Beyond Spanglish: Some words aren't in dictionary
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Lessons learned from start-up kitchen
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Be careful with vetch; it is toxic to poultry
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Advise neighbors about pesticide drift
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Vinegar corrodes sprayers
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GMOs hurt farmers
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Hardiness zones move
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Ban on hand weeding considered
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Letter From the Editor: Growing hay
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The vinegar brouhaha
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Cut flower care web site
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Perennials for cut flowers, early and late in season
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Beyond Spanglish: Listen for hybrid words
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New book provides recipe cards ready to copy for your customers
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Letters from Readers: Organic seeds
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Letters from Readers: Diesel Kubota
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Indiana market doubles after moving to new parking pavilions
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Hybrid hazelnuts offer income potential
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Gourmet salvias
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Public likes small farms
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Small town successes
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Organic uprising
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Letter from the Editor: Tulip season
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Grow your own hay!
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Study shows more antioxidants in organic and unsprayed produce
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Listen for familiar words with similar meanings
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How to know when to expect pests
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Laws on meat sales vary; here's where to seek advice
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Pharm crops lawsuit
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Sentinal plants against terrorism
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Engineering for scent...
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Organic alternative
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Homeland Security starts with the local farm
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Selling meat at market
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Fragrant freesias are a great winter crop
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Letters from Readers: Organic Seed Requirement
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Hey is for donkeys; try Amigo instead
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Please don't call it dirt!
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Tractors and the farmers who love them
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Get involved with a chef
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Chef holds farmers in high esteem
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Organic herbicide
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Dealing with drought
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Pastured poultry a good fit
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Letters from Readers: Packing Shed Convenience
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Why you should learn to speak Spanish
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CRP may pay for trees and shrubs that will produce income in future
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Volunteer greeters, PYO keep CSA distribution running
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Conserve energy in the greenhouse
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Correction on National Organic Program
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Blueberry benefits
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Prepare for pastured poultry
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Greener pastures ahead
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Green flowers still in style
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Letters from readers: Using Chlorine to wash produce
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Build a hot box for germinating seeds
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Hoophouses keep good workers employed
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Growing transplants for mechanical transplanter
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Should you use peat in the greenhouse?
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Seed priming and pelleting explained
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How to test leftover seeds
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NOP relaxes rules
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Watershed eco-label
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Fusarium in tulip bulbs
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Seedless watermelons
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Letter from the Editor: Learning from Failures
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The organic seed challenge
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New Dianthus cut flowers can be grown year-round
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Roll up drip tape on shuttles
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Update: Congress and the Farmers Market Nutrition Programs
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Leafy greens proposal causes uproar
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Book review: Sharing the Harvest
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Better night-break lighting
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Blueberry prospects
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Food miles and carbon footprint
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Letter from the Editor: Local food popularity
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What makes long-term CSAs successful?
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Popular merchandising book is full of ideas for farmers' markets
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Asian greens a good choice for high tunnels in winter
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How to prevent winter deer damage
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Urban agriculture: Growing in the city
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Stocks a great local cut flower
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Home delivery provides winter market
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Point system creates a fair way to assign spaces at farmers' markets
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International interns enliven farms
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Cool-loving sweet peas are great in the winter greenhouse
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Flower grower shares display tips for farmers' markets
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Turn unsold tomatoes into new products
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Beans are still a crowd pleaser
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Organic and alternative eco labels
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Our summer vacation: A Maine flower farm
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Winter Crops, Part 2: Planting through marketing
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Think you want to do weddings? Here's a reality check
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Farming in a vacationer's paradise
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Keep bouquets upright at windy markets
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Eat Your Colors! Use disease-fighting properties of produce in your marketing
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Mesclun can still be profitable
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Letter from the Editor: Winter flowers
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Time to get ready for winter!
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Promising perennials, some old, some new
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Breakfast items bring in customers
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Fall is the best time for brassicas
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Finally, a great insect ID book!
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Roll down cover crops for no-till veggies
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Woodchuck harassment
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The beauty of cover crops
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How to make sugar 'pulse' solutions for cut flowers
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Small watermelons are all the rage
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Vinegar controls weeds in garlic
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Universities buy a lot of produce. Here's some advice on how and whether to sell to them
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The power of the press release
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When frost threatens, know what to expect
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Peppers are hot products for Chile Man
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Value-added products round out herb sales
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Married to the chicken coop? Take a break with an automatic door opener
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Eggs are a good fit
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Trip to Ecuador provides ideas for U.S. growers
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Expansion of wireless communications brings credit cards, food stamps to farmers' markets
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Squash - hate it or love it, but grow plenty of it
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Profit with potted herbs all season
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Scaling down helps farmers find balance
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Farms raise values
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Illegal bouquets
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Flower farms fail
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GE ban challenged
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Letter from the Editor: New barns
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How to have happy interns
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Tricks of the trade for starting flower seed
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Advice and resources for creating a processing kitchen
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Plan now for profitable holiday fairs
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Running the farm on straight veggie oil
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Nothing sells like tomatoes, so grow plenty of them!
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Some soil deficits can be ameliorated but other soils will just never be good for crops
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Blueberry mulch
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On the organic front
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Big, hungry snails
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Letters from Readers: Addiction to combustion
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Letters from the Readers: Winter pest habitat
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Letters from the Readers: Season contraction
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Herb plants generate market sales
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Growers work together to market flowers
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Biodiesel, Part 2: Farmer describes the work involved
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Do you need organic seed?
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When space is tight, market stand must be well-organized
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Basil: Aromatherapy for capitalism
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The next big thing?
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Roses and apples
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To weed or not to weed
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Letter from the Editor: The American Gardener
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In the market for farmland?
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Dutch growers lead the way in growing, selling flowers
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He's back: Avery creates 'eco-label'
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The best tomato varieties
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Hoophouse tomatoes can be early, profitable
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H-2A visas can help farmers get reliable workers
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Can you make money on microgreens?
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The art of the CSA newsletter
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Grow peppers for fall wreaths and swags
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New resources
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Market bans GMOs
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Veggie R&D
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When neem works
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Letter from the Editor: Problems bring opportunity
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Biodiesel: farm-made fuel
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Reinventing the farm: from wholesaling to agritourism
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Letters from the Readers: More on bird flu
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Lettuce can be a key crop with the proper attention
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Thermal blankets in the greenhouse may cut out too much light for winter tomatoes
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On-line ordering handles complicated deliveries for CSAs, groups of farmers
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Market reopens
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Obesity, produce prices
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Farm-built coolers
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Free seed search
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Letter from the Editor: Signs of hope
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Recipe for a great farmers' market
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Flowers require a good record keeping system
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With free fuel and wood-burning boiler, farmer doesn't fear winter heating costs
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Make your own insulated water trough for chickens
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Bird flu strategy may affect small farms
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Book review: Making a living with healing herbs
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Free guide gives organic answers to pest control
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Letters from the Readers: Fall brassicas
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Pesticide costs
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Flower video
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Farmer's market grants
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Noted author dies
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Winter greenhouse crops depend on light as much as temperature
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Farming and climate change
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How we made 4,000 bouquets in five days and lived to tell about it
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Understanding onions at 38°N
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Onion success requires planning and research
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A last visit with Booker T. Whatley
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GMO alfalfa released
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Organic blueberries
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Estate tax affects few
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Strawberry plant source
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Fresh flower challenge
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Hurricane response
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Price alert!!!
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Letters from the Readers: Feedback on farmers' market prices
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Alternative greenhouse fuels
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Letters from the Readers: Sunflowers recommended
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Letters from the Readers: Starting fall brassicas
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Letters from the Readers: Keep your dogs home
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Farm family tries to find balance
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Got garlic? Start a garlic festival
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Persistence pays off for farmers' market
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Focus on compost
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Lisianthus pest
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New insecticides
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Organic produce up
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Plastic mulch results
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Letter from the Editor: Sales tax
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Are supermarkets cheaper than farmers' markets?
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Ornamental sorghums for fall flower sales
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Cultivate chefs’ passion for seasonal ingredients
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Know your farmer, know your food
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Managing risk in an inherently risky business, part 2
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Facts about E. coli 0157:H7
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Nightcrawlers collect weed seeds
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Compost tea dangers
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Harmful bacteria on tomato and pepper plants
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Spinach E. coli contamination hits home
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How to sell shrubs at farmers markets
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Winter travel to farms exposes growers to wealth of ideas
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How we became beekeepers
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Labor crisis
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Letter from the Editor: Wal-Mart and organics
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Managing risk in an inherently risky business
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Tuberose the easy way
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Missouri gets low-cost insurance coverage for farmers' markets
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Floral preservatives vs. water: Research shows which is best
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Book review: Advocating for family organic farms
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Is agribusiness taking over the organic market niche?
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Leave nectar plants for monarch migration
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Safety a concern for older farmers
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Live poor, die rich? Not exactly
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Green weddings
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Growing in compost
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Undersowing in fall
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Free video on food
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Letter from the Editor: Country dogs
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Farming: the perfect retirement job?
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Oriental lilies look exotic, but are surprisingly easy to grow
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Eco-label for flowers introduced
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Okra: not just for Southerners
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Ease back and knee strain with strap-on stool
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Farmers' market news: Update on insurance
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Kaolin particle film can be used to prevent sunburn on fruits, veggies
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Having a heat wave?
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CSA land trust
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New veggie cookbook
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Roundup danger
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Economic impact
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Letter from the Editor: Faulty investigative reporting
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Schoolchildren are good for business
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Take a hint from Nature's flower gardens
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Letters from readers: Plant patents should be respected
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Letters from the readers: How to get nonprofit status
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Letters from the readers: Digital photos solve problems
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Trap crop perimeter deters cucumber beetles
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Spinach is growing in popularity, so market farmers make special efforts to grow it in summer and fall
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Community college trains students to become farmers in 2-year program
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Book review: The best book on pest control for market garden
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How to treat powdery mildew on vegetables and flowers
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More hours to work?
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Organic affinity grows
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Cut water lilies
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New repellents
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GE corn threat
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Letter from the Editor: The World’s Largest Ball of Drip Tape
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Help from above: Solarization for organic weed and disease control
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Sell plants so customers can grow their own cut flowers
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Why do I mulch thee? Let me count the ways
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Letters from the readers: Training dogs for the market garden
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Letters from the readers: Misleading headline
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Letters from the readers: More on vole control
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Choose the right sweet corn varieties for your markets
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CD is a terrific resource for market gardeners
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How to conduct variety trials
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Junk food out in UK...
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Abundant Life returns
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Amphibians harmed
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Plants' self-defense
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Letter from the Editor: Project Good Neighbor
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The hoophouse in summer
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Zinnia, yarrow top the list of new varieties you must grow
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Letters from the readers: Covered markets
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Relay planting: more crops, less space
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Soil blocks are an alternative to plastic for transplants
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Compost-based potting mixes require different management for transplants
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Quirky film explores failure and survival on farm
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Immigrant workers help farms grow
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NY growers share ideas for hiring young people
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How to get certified
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Pharm crops a threat to farms
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$90,000 an acre?
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Rave reviews for local food
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Letter from the Editor: Hiring help
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Start your search for good workers
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A book to treasure: Fields of Plenty
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Machine love: Walking mower
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High price of doing business this year calls for streamlined production
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Variety selection is the key
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Raspberry harvest can be earlier, later
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Shipping rather than delivering saves time, money
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Couple supplies New York’s top chefs
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Resource, not waste
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Alcohol for paperwhites
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Saving American foods
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Letters from the readers: Lettuce germination
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Letters from the readers: Hoophouse condensation
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Letter from the Editor: New ideas
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Microgreens: Still a high-value crop?
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In the hoophouse, cut flowers can be triple cropped for maximum revenue
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U.S. alternatives to certification gather steam
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International group recognizes non-certified organic growers
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Risk to wildlife
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Letters from the readers: Vole-controlling dogs
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Letters from the readers: Conference brain death
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Fresh shell beans a popular crop: These gourmet treats require an investment, but customers love them
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Finding best markets
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Organic orcharding
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Rain causes problems
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Organic catsup better
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Local trumps organic
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Neem patent revoked
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Letter from the Editor: Cumulative index
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Dealing with greenhouse pests
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Your most crucial task: Post-harvest handling
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Sweetpotatoes can be grown almost anywhere in U.S.
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Market gardening - a great summer job
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Check out these new veggie varieties
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Don't let voles get established
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What I never learned as an apprentice
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New resources
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Seed saving info
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Heirloom seed fun
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Writers wanted
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Letter from the Editor: An auspicious year
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Raise your own pest patrol
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Our favorite flowers - and our most profitable
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Preventing deer damage: farmers share war stories
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Intern concerns
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Letters from the readers: More than one job
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Letters from the readers: Asian greens in hoophouse
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Growing and marketing specialty peppers
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Purple pigments
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Organic resources
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Amazing watermelons
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Organic milk is better
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Hairy vetch scores
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Letter from the Editor: Variety advice
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Success with seeds: Get your season off to a good start with this timely advice
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The best of what's new
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How to succeed with spuds
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Mixed containers are a draw for Mother's Day
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Solar-powered side curtains ventilate hoophouse when the farmer can't be there
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Herb news
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Attracting beneficials
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Greenhouse berries
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Letter from the Editor: Welcome to new readers
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New tools unveiled
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10 reasons to buy local produce
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Recommended new veggie varieties
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An old-fashioned barn raising
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Coleus as a cut flower?
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Wal-Mart and organics
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Pollinators decline
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The 5% effect
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Letter from the Editor: Food Safety
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Wood-fired boilers
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Whole Foods Market and local farms
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Machine love: Dehumidifier
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Peach trees bear flowers more readily than fruit
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Terrorist chickens resisting animal ID system
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Greenhouses overwinter NY herbs
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Winter squash makes most of harvest and growers’ time
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Hardening off process is worth the effort
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Contaminated produce
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Homemade vacuum seeder
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Leaf compost increases yields
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Is a rose a rose?
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Who owns organic now?
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2005 the warmest year yet
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Letter from the Editor: National Animal Identification System alarm
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What do chefs want?
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Peonies still popular for Kansas farm
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Peanuts: Grow your own protein
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Growers reap benefits from farmer networks
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New zone map shows warming
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Design a greenhouse
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No more flower prices
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Money for markets
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Letter from the Editor: Small farm success
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Got voles? Get kestrels and barn owls! Predators are your best ally, so make them welcome with nest boxes
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Harvesting techniques can improve efficiency
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Organic seed workshops scheduled
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Time to get your act together
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New biodegradable mulch is cheaper than plastic when removal and disposal costs are also considered
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Letters from the readers: Kestrel warning
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Fertilizer from the barber shop
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Organic transplants cost more
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Organic opposition to NAIS
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Standing seeder
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Who’s doing farm work?
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Small-scale hydro power
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Take tips in July for strawberries in fall
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Succession planting = success
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Daylength affects rudbeckias, sunflowers
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Cookbook highlights fun & flavor in farming
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Wasps improve sweet corn quality for organic growers
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Time to start those fall brassicas!
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Solar-powered pump used for irrigation
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NAIS may harm rare breeds
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Keep garlic in cooler
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Real Food markets open in NYC
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A recipe for non-toxic powdery mildew control
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Real Dirt to be on PBS
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Letter from the Editor: ASCFG meeting
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New web site serves you and your customers
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Equipment review: Clipper seed cleaner simplifies seed crops
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How to use low tunnels to extend the season
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Shoppers need help making healthy food choices
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Letters from the readers: Storing row covers
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Letters from the readers: Selling too cheaply
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Book review: A market farmer explains it all
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A garlic affair: How the ‘stinking rose’ became a major crop on one farm
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Summer and fall events
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Storing flowers and veggies
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Pesticides banned
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Letter from the Editor: Supporting new farmers markets
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Ancient crop wins new following
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New varieties worth a look
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An American innocent abroad
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Set your alarm clock if you want to sell squash blossoms
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Letters from the readers: National animal ID
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Letters from the readers: Storing row cover
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Letters from the readers: Watch those homonyms
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Letters from the readers: Solar pump article
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Letters from the readers: Setting prices
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Book review: Simply in Season
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Uniform food labels imminent
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Even hotter than you thought
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...and flower prices
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Organic produce prices...
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Letter from the Editor: Eat Local
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Tips for saving on drip irrigation
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Fall is the best time to plant delphiniums
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Heat reduces crop yields
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Sorrel’s urge to reproduce may be its biggest challenge
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Chile facts
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Fragrance of roasting chiles draws customers to farmers markets
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The Abominable Egg White Omelet
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Book review: Forget about fat and eat farm-fresh
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More gardeners spending less
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GMO rice contamination
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Recovering from wind
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Johnny's Selected Seeds sold to employees
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Market growers honored by SARE
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Time to try vermicompost?
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For seed-starting success, mimic nature's program
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Unusual root crops appearing on upscale restaurant menus
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Branded plants: Worth the extra cost?
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Market Growth
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How to build hoop-and-plastic cloches that extend the season both spring and fall
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Whole Foods followup
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Organic food service expands
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The best tomato ever
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Wildlife habitat endangered
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In the eye of the beholder
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The most valuable crop
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Letter from the Editor: The start of a new year
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What’s ahead for farmers markets?
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Make lisianthus more profitable this year
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Grow your own sweet potato slips
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Get your money’s worth when you attend conferences
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How to gather market information
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Upcoming meetings
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Sponsorship bias
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Corporate organic
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Serving heirloom food
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How to kill bacteria
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Produce safety agreement
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Letters from the Readers
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Organic vs. local – both win!
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Trendy succulents are easy to grow and sell
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Grow amaryllis as a summer cut flower
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Plan for a really long season of leeks
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Other Alliums extend season, add to onion profits
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A CSA with star power
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Great new resources
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Farmers sell carbon credits
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Comeback for quince
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Wild Oats Markets purchased
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CSA farmers skeptical about debt-relief offer
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CSA movement continues its growth
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What’s new for 2007?
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Flower business can get TOO big
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Keep the greens coming: Swiss chard and other summer spinach substitutes
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Easy, reliable asparagus anchors early markets
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Not mandatory yet
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Another boost for local farms
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Make your own cooler
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Inmates on farms
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At last, a farm bill for the rest of us
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Get ready for farmers markets
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Water plants easy to grow
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Buddleia needs special care
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SPIN farming — $50k on a half-acre
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A grower's guide to transplanting veg
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Writers seek stories
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Tracking organic farms
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Inspired interns
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IRS takes aim at tax cheating
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Higher prices for tomatoes
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Letter from the Editor: More on Debt Free Organic
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Letter from the Editor: Misery loves company
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New farmers market pavilion results when city and growers work together
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Tissue-cultured plants: Price versus performance
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Some like it hot!
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Heat-loving edamame a good summer crop
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States grapple with wine sales at farmers markets
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Farm to cafeteria
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Flower power
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Rural areas lack food
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Humane labeling
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Letter from the Editor: Signs of Change
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Go green with solar irrigation
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Maine study finds toxic industrial chemicals in every person tested
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New Echinacea varieties ready for cutting
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On-farm workshops can be fun even in mid-summer
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Farmer warns of problem with RC&D Council
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Shadecloth, row cover help summer crops
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Food prices rising
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People need more produce
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Farmers markets gain ground
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Innovation & risk management: the yin & yang of farm success
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It’s time to start fall/winter lettuce
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How and why to start a farm blog
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Extend the shelf life of your produce
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Antibiotics in manure
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Organic fits developing nations
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High tunnel tours
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Silicon for plants
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PVC hoophouse
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Letter from the Editor: Flowers on the market
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Cheese is good for farmers markets
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Growing dahlias: ‘These are your money makers’
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Are your internships legal?
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Handle sweet potatoes gently and cure thoroughly for long storage
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New organic products
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Attracting beneficial insects
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Salad mix testing improves
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Letter from the Editor: Raising children on the farm
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Contaminated hay ruins crops
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Know your options in case you need to buy flowers
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Are you a good farmer? Take this quiz
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Exploring the legal and ethical issues of internships
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Lettuce, not lawns: Farming in the city
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Got (COLD) water? Trout farming may be an option
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Letters from readers: Individual Fraud
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Insulin in lettuce?
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Organic food from China
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Biodegradable pots
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Taking local to the extreme
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A better source of nitrogen
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Letter from the Editor: Farm to School Obstacles
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How to plan crop rotations
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Letters from readers: Minimum wage
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Simple machine turns leftover flowers into valuable wreaths
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Photo calendar keeps you in front of chefs, other buyers
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Despite dire warnings, EPA approves methyl iodide
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Eliot Coleman’s new project: low tunnels for winter crops
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Tool review: A new kind of weeder/cultivator
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It’s time to plant potato onions
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Virginia farmers arrested
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Organic poultry brouhaha
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Health insurance on the farm
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Protecting the organic label
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Letter From the Editor: Weather problems
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Canine controversy: Market managers discuss their strategies for dealing with dogs
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Big Ag vs. Small Ag
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What you need to know before you add supplemental heat to your high tunnels
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Customers donate generously to help flooded farmers
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Do a crop review in early winter
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Organic produce is better for you
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Detecting organic fraud
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Eat your greens
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Letter from the Editor: Farm to School Success
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Eco-labels expand claims beyond organic
