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There's little to no air. In fact, he's grown a total of 14 different crops using this unlikely growing medium. And you thought growing tomatoes on your farm was challenging. The gardener in all of us was captivated.

Check it out—you can download it for free! Ask Martok! Do you have a livestock or wildlife question you want me to answer? Reindeer are cool animals. During the mid-1800s, Russian whalers decimated sea mammals along the Bering Sea coast, so native people...

I am grateful to know where my food comes from, to have the opportunity to raise some of it in my own backyard and to know the people who grew the food that I myself could not. Now, on Thanksgiving morning, the kitchen is filled with the wonderful smells...

The picture of urban farming life usually involves dreamy days of harvesting beautiful produce from the ground. In an urban setting, farmers might choose to install fencing to conceal compost bins or keep pets and kids out of gardens.

Continue this rotation, occasionally spot-spraying young trees to arrest their growth. Plants are smaller and less vigorous, resulting in marginal yield. Today's row crops are often planted woodline to woodline, and farming on those treed edges robs crops...

Less than 1 percent of native tallgrass prairie remains in North America. Grazing and fires each bring complex relationships and chemical changes to the systems. Understanding your particular site's tendencies, such as which plants are likely to invade,...

Their formidable root systems can be twice the width of their canopies, so don't plant them too close together. Zone: 5-9A Height: 80-100 feet Width: 30-50 feet, maintaining a fairly narrow, oval-shaped crown even at extreme heights Growth per year: 3...

(Learn more at www.texasriparian.org.) “Management of the land, streams and riparian zones affects not only individual landowners, but also livestock, wildlife, aquatic life and everyone downstream,” Dictson says.

Consult a certified arborist if you are uncertain about the root zone of specific tree species."has been applied to your lawns; you may want to advise them to stop and keep your eye out for damage to trees or shrubs.

Note the slick shiny surface you've created. Of all the soil types, clay has the most minute mineral components; when wet, clay is slippery and slow to drain; when baked in the sun, clay becomes hard and unworkable.

And because a tree will always want to grow to its genetically determined height, a topped tree will often form a new leader. Planting a tree too deeply will not result in immediate death, but rather a gradual decline in health, branch dieback, peeling...

Here are some things to keep in mind if you are considering an ecological restoration project of your own. “We take a bottom-up approach,” Leffew explains. Even country neighbors expect neatness, and natural habitats can look woolly and scraggly as...

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The gopher face is also conveniently equipped to carry food, hence the name “pocket gophers.” A few other animals, like pocket mice and kangaroo rats, have these fur-lined pouches, too, but the difference with pocket gophers is that the pocket opening...

A hand-pushed mower can be particularly useful since you can get in between and very close to the larger trees. If you have fields that border a forest or even just a tree line, it's only a matter of time before seedling trees start popping up on the...

How long have they been there? Huge piles of rocks (and who knows what else) disappear under years of grass and leaves. Knowing how the previous farm owners liked to use piles of rocks as places to keep all sorts of random items (parts from an old Model...

They are concerned about the loss of top-soil. As a society, we have forgotten the importance of the soil . That question has sent me digging into a number of different books, indulging my closet soil scientist just in time for spring planting.

Before these trees are harvested, salable firewood and other byproducts of routine pruning offer short-term income. “There are also millions of additional open pasturelands that could be enhanced as silvopastures by feasibly incorporating trees.”...

“You'll need to self-market and see if there are folks in your area looking for what you have.” Aside from income generation, factor in how your woodland property can save you money.

Irrigation Plants need water to survive, so you need to determine what type of irrigation you want—drip, overhead or a combination—and put together a kit. So many variables exist.

The most astonishing response, however, came from Reagan T., who saw the link to my Hobby Farms columns in my bio and declared that the original discussion was about “real” farms, not hobby farms.

Trees are coppiced, or pruned nearly to the ground, encouraging the formation of many small shoots. Harvest involves pruning, rather than cutting down the trees. Along with leftovers from the cinnamon quilling process, these pieces are either ground or...

(Nose-to-tail dining at its finest!) It seems that throughout my life food and farming has been following me, standing by patiently, waiting for me to notice it. Roosters crowed, even in the city, at the break of dawn.

In an attempt to thwart the pest's destruction, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station launched programs to breed a blight-resistant American chestnut tree.

In some areas, there was a significant amount of plant residue. When corn stalks and other plant materials are deposited at 4 inches deep or less, growers can typically till them into the soil, though Wilson caution that this can temporarily cause artificial...

When you spot an infected tree, remove and chip, burn or bury it to prevent spread of the disease by bark beetles. (The insects will ride along with the wood you're carrying.) Don't allow wood to be moved off of your property to be taken to another area...

Feed purchased in bags from the farm-supply store is generally more expensive than that purchased in bulk from a grain mill but also more convenient for small-scale chicken keeping.