Tools and Machinery
How to Sharpen Rotary Cutter Blades on a Small Farm
When your pasture looks chewed instead of cut and the brush hog leaves ragged stubble behind, the blades are usually the...
You transplant a tray of healthy kale on Monday, and by Thursday every leaf looks like it was hit with birdshot.
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When your pasture looks chewed instead of cut and the brush hog leaves ragged stubble behind, the blades are usually the...
Soil Health
Your soil test came back at pH 5.4, the beans look pale and the brassicas are stalling, and someone at the feed store told you...
Raising Animals
You put the buck in with your does two months ago, and now every one of them looks a little round.
Growing Food
Your fall greens look great in October, then a 24 degree night in late November turns half the bed into translucent mush.
Crop Protection
The white dust shows up on one zucchini leaf in July, and two weeks later half the row looks like it was rolled in flour.
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A tractor that starts fine in October can refuse to turn over in January, or worse, crack a block because the coolant was...
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Three growers who work their own ground before they write about it: one runs a market garden and tests her own soil every season, one grew up on a cattle farm and now keeps a smaller herd on his own acres, and one services his own tractor and sells at the same market every Saturday. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not tried firsthand.