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This Gardener Gets Tomato Harvests Year-Round With This Unique Growing Strategy

Modern Farmer

Jacques doesnt use a heated greenhouse or even a high tunnel…but he does live in San Diego. Soil health, proper irrigation, pruning, and light exposure impact a plants ability to ward off diseases, but genetics also come into play. But what if you could grow tomatoes year-round?

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Marketing that Matters: Audubon Seal Connects Ranchers and Consumers

Food Tank

A lot of consumers don’t understand carbon sequestration or greenhouse gas emissions, but they can really understand habitat,” she tells Food Tank. Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison.

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Growing Adenium Arabicum Seeds : Step-by-Step

Kavya Organic Farm

Ideal Environment: Place the pot in a warm and sunny location, such as a windowsill or greenhouse. Pruning and Shaping Your Adenium Arabicum Pruning is essential for maintaining the shape and health of your Adenium Arabicum, regardless of whether it was grown from seeds or obtained as a mature plant. Happy gardening!

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Happy Goat’s humans also assist by doing some pruning to ensure that clearance extends to six vertical feet. Jessica Segale talks about her work as Happy Goat’s greenhouse manager and produce grown on their regenerative farm in the Sierra Nevada foothill community of Mariposa, California.

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Soil Blocking Has Many Benefits. What is It and How Can You Get Started? 

Modern Farmer

Soil blocking is also gaining in popularity because it promotes a healthier root system by utilizing a process known as “air pruning.” Left: A young soil blocked collard seedling in the Blue Ridge Farm greenhouse. Due to the freestanding nature of each soil block, the plant roots are exposed to oxygen on all sides.

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Photo Essay: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers

Civil Eats

And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back. ” Center: Ramon Torres prunes blueberry bushes at the Tierra y Libertad cooperative. Chilcayote and nopal seedlings in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse.