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If you dread the cold winter frost, never fear: You can extend your growing season without too much muss and fuss. Sometimes called a hoop tunnel, a plastic hoop house insulates your plants and keeps frost at bay.
And you don't have to be an engineer to build one!
No, thanks. We don’t need free pesticides.
Building Houses With Rice Waste
A 16-year-old girl from Indian and her innovation that turns rice waste into sustainable building materials.
The Weekly Glean: Artificially Enlarged Liver
What are we, chopped liver?
One Farmer’s Field Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure
When hard labor pays off.
How to Raise Monarch Butterflies
Love monarchs? This is your guide to know them better and raise them well.
Where Have All the Women Farmers Gone?
Throwback to 1970s, the era when the nation witnessed a boom in women-led farms.
Mentally Disabled Slaves Mine Fancy Salt For South Koreans
Sinan County salt might be delicious, but the way it’s made is anything but.
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