Best Pull Type Forage Harvester

Horseradish is a very common condiment in the cuisine of most northern European countries, southwestern Illinois produces 85 percent of the world's commercially cultivated horseradish.

Use these ideas for including friends and family in harvest actvities. Last year, our 12-year-old son, Liam, took the opportunity to glean unpicked produce when he founded a project called Harvest Ninja , organizing local kids to identify untapped fruit...

Label each variety with a waterproof plant tag, and cover the flat with the sheet of plastic to keep the humidity high. Growing microgreens is a great way to get some homegrown veggies into your diet during the winter months.

As soon as some of the beans begin to crack open, pull them from the plants. The bean seeds themselves are very hard, so don't be afraid of squishing them as you thresh the beans. But, because we want to harvest the beans for consumption, they must be...

The squash variety I grow likes to hang, so I also build a tall rack that keeps the squash off the ground. I've consulted the moon calendar, and have decided that I'll plant my first tomato seeds on Monday.

It never fails to amaze me what a good, consistent producer potatoes always are—even when I am a neglectful gardener. It's such a treat to pry up the pitch fork and have a bunch of fist-sized spuds pop up out of the earth.

(The poor little things languished due to too much shade, super soggy ground and over-zealous deer pruning services.) After we eventually moved the two stunted survivors to a sunnier, dryer spot away from the deer and beside our vegetable garden, these...

All in all it was a good year for fave, but I'll probably plant less next year. I had been worried that the season was so late that we might miss May 1. This year when I told my wife that I again planned to give part of our fave harvest to some of the...

Charcoal and various minerals were used to color pictures on ancient walls. What better way to do this than to borrow the colors from nature directly? Color can be metaphorical, as in “green with envy” or “red with rage”; it's used to typify different...

After the resounding success of my olive curing experiment last year, I was looking forward to curing 10 gallons or more of olives, but the places where I can usually find free olives to harvest are all empty this year.

The first thing you need to know is when the apples are ripe. Part of the reason is the damage that inexperienced pickers, especially children, do to the trees. The problem is, it might by this time be over-ripe, so I prefer to rely on the color of the...

They will have a brown husk attached. There is a small window of opportunity when it comes to these little delicacies. Some people like a dash of vinegar or lemon juice. So much so, that Vermont has made them their State vegetable.Discover the Ostrich...

The only investment is your time. Most leeks set seed, but not all leeks come true from seed. I have many seed heads, and chose to dry them in an open container to catch all the seeds as they ripen.

They come in two handy sizes, the 16-quart Original Hod and the 8-quart L'il Hod in logo-branded, plain and painted models. Nut and Dropped-fruit Harvester If you've ever wanted to harvest dropped fruit or nuts that litter your yard each fall, but dread...

I have a history of being emotionally confused in my relationships with weeds. Photo by Rick Gush The view of this “weed garden” from my office might not look pretty to some but, to me, I see a resilient, amazing patch of plants.

One part of Phinney's job involves working in the various Whole Foods Market stores—25 dot the region—and meeting with the regional coordinators to determine what products they're looking to acquire.

To calculate each bale's DM weight: Bale Weight (1,200 pounds) x Percent DM (0.8) = Amount of Hay DM Per Bale (960 pounds) To calculate per-cow hay needs: DM Needs Per Cow (5,625 pounds) ÷ Hay DM Per Bale (960 pounds) = Bales Per Cow for the Feeding...

Mixed with spinach greens and a light oil-and-vinegar dressing, the salad offered the freshest of fresh flavors. I just ate my first wild salad of the year. As I ventured out to a local nature preserve, the wildflowers in bloom were less familiar.

Dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) Joan/Flickr The best dandelion roots for digging are 2 years old. You'll want to get them before they start to develop their flower buds. These roots can be diced and sauteed or cubed and added to soups.

Diminishing populations of ramps in the wild means we all need to do our part to protect them in our forests and gardens. Instead of a bulb, it has a fibrous root structure. After looking through a handful of them, Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnesota appears...

This is what makes the spring such a fun time to forage: the endless quantity of wild edibles. What's Edible The young, spindly shoots while still curled. How To Identify Not only do ramps tend to come up earlier than most plants, they are also easily...

At the Southeast Wise Women's Herbal Conference in North Carolina, I listened to elder Native Americans share their tribe's knowledge. Like many Americans, I have some native blood as a fraction of my heritage, and my connection with that culture also...

Wisdom Comes Through Experience Chanterelle mushrooms. Why aren't the beetles and squirrels eating them? That's OK, I'm in good company. Whether you are student or teacher, knowing a place and observing the changes over time provides invaluable insights...

In some cases, you will find them mixed in with the vegetables. The owner ships all over the country, and it turns out that some of the weeds I take for granted don't grow well elsewhere.

Ground elder can be a nuisance, but at least it's a useful one. Ground elder ( Aegopodium podagraria ) is one of those plants in my garden that I'm almost afraid to call a weed. With frequent harvests, you can reduce the spread of the plants by forcing...

Not only does its showy flowers make the landscape come alive in early spring, it's a little-known fact that the flowers and fruits of this tree are edible. It has cooling, astringent, diuretic properties, which can be helpful during the transition from...

How to Spot It: Milkweed has a tall, erect stem with large oval alternate leaves and a large, purplish-pink, globe-like umbel flower perched at the top. The root bark, which is best dug up in the fall, is often used medicinally as a treatment for diarrhea,...