Articles: efficient farm

garden planning

Garden Planning: The Most Promising Veggies

Getting ready to do some garden planning? Here are some of the most promising veggies that Eliot Coleman suggests to…

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winter gardening

Winter Gardening Without Heated Greenhouses

Think you can’t enjoy winter gardening without a heated greenhouse? Think again. As long as you’re adding layers to keep…

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Compost: Small Farm-Style

With the right strategies and practices, composting on a small farm is surprisingly easy and inexpensive. Just follow these steps…

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greenhouse on a slope

Not Level? No Problem. How to Build a Greenhouse on a Slope

Is your yard uneven or sloped, but you want to build a greenhouse? It may not seem like the “perfect spot,”…

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10 Types of Farm Waste: Making and Maintaining a Lean Farm

Just like homes, farms require some cleaning and waste removal every now and then. How do you decide what to…

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goats

Goats Gone Wild: The World’s First Farm Animal

Looking for advice on maintaining a happy herd? These tips will help you care for your goats in ways that…

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Are you Team Duck or Team Chicken?

Thinking about adding a laying flock to your backyard, but having trouble deciding between ducks and chickens? Agonize no more.…

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crops growing

Grow Vegetables Like You Mean It

In the United States, 40 percent of the food we produce is wasted. Ben Hartman is trying to put a…

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chickens, goats, and a young farmer feeding the animals

Homesteading: Highlighting Our Need For Each Other

Homesteading isn’t meant to be a solitary adventure, done in isolation. Building and living on your land takes at least…

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Earth Day

Earth Day Reading: 13 Essential Books

This year, people all around the world are celebrating a milestone—the 50th anniversary of this international day of action for…

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home garden

Resiliency: Becoming an Adaptive Human

They say history is bound to repeat itself if we don’t take the time to learn from the past. Our…

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droplets on spiderweb and plant

The Miracle of Farming: Toward a Bio-Abundant Future

Farmers have a close relationship with nature, seeing life cycles happen right in front of their eyes marvel in what…

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Farmer standing in front of a tractor in a field

Starting Farming: How to Find Success as a New Farmer

As the average age of America’s farmers continues to rise, we face serious questions about what farming will look like…

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Illustration of grassy hills and farmland

Sustain Your Land: Subsistence Strategies for the Long Haul

Peasants, indigenous agriculturalists, and old-time American farming families farmed first and foremost to feed their own families and those in…

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Barn in a field

Why Farm Infrastructure is Important: A Farm is More Than Land

The basis for a good farm isn’t just about finding a piece of land with great soil. No, to truly…

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Lettuce growing in a deep water culture system

Hydroponic Versus Soil Growing: Which Should You Choose

You probably learned when you were young that plants need soil to get the essential nutrients needed to grow. However,…

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plants growing in seeds

All Purpose Potting Soil Recipe: The Perfect Mix

Check out this easy, all-purpose recipe for potting soil! The above excerpt is from The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm by Josh Trought. It…

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goats

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Goat Handling

If you have goats or are considering getting goats, at some point you’ll need to move them from one grazing…

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produce

Organic No-Till: Farming like the Earth Matters

If we could do one thing for the planet it would be to ditch the plough. When we turn over…

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greenhouses

Sustainable Food From Local Greenhouses

The Netherlands—a country two-thirds the size of West Virginia— is ranked second in agricultural export volume behind the United States.…

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