Growing Food

Growing Food is edible gardening and food security.
– Growing fruits, vegetables, and herbs to promote self-sufficiency and reduce food costs.
– Interest in heirloom varieties and seed saving.
– Kitchen gardening
– Supporting local food systems and reducing the carbon footprint of food production.

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    Reference Pages for Apples

    Suggested links for everything Apple. Thank you Jenny!

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  • The branch of a coffee plant will many coffee beans

    Can You Grow Your Own Coffee Beans at Home?

    By Guest Author Michael Shewmake. Can you grow your own coffee beans at home? Absolutely — it’s just a question of conditions and commitment.…

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    Optimize Fruit Tree Soils for Best Production

    Of all things necessary to grow fruit trees – or anything else, for that matter – soil is perhaps one of the most overlooked…

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  • Dehydrated apricots emerging from an oven

    Dehydrator Recipes for Storing Food

    Dehydration is the best way to store food for the long-term. We scoured our favorite homesteading sites to find the best recipes for the…

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  • A photo of eight kinds of beans grouped together

    GROWING AND CARING FOR GREEN BEANS

    When it comes to growing beans, there are many different types of beans that can be grown in your garden or even inside the…

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  • Tomato Leaf Curl: Virus, Causes & Remedies For Tomato Leaves Curling

    Tomato Leaf Curl Virus also known as leaf roll affects more than just tomato plants but a whole host of plants. This virus plant…

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  • Tomatoes afflicted with blight

    Tomato Blight: Identification and Treatment

    Tomato blight refers to a family of pathogens, caused by fungus which spreads through tomato foliage, often during wet weather.

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  • Plants in soil as spring vegetable suggestions

    Top Vegetable Suggestions for Early Spring Planting

    Are you ready to plant? You can sow cool season crops directly in the ground as soon as the soil temperature is at or…

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  • What is ‘Extra Virgin’: Demystifying Olive Oil

    Olive Oil has been produced for thousands of years. Originally, olive oil was used as lampante or lamp oil. Production was largely centralized to…

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    How to Prune Blueberries

    To get a great crop of blueberries every year, one also has to prune the shrubs every winter. Not spring or fall, but during…

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  • How To Grow Your Own Organic Celery

    Celery has a reputation as one of the most daunting vegetables to grow. In fact, many people like to grow it for the challenge…

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  • Tomato Care Growing Questions and Answers

    Question: I am losing about half of my tomato crop because of fruit rot. Sunken round spots develop over the ripening fruit. The spots…

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  • An incredible vegetable display tomatoes, potatoes, leeks, peppers, onions, lettuce and so on

    8 "Nos" for The Vegetable Garden

    Irrespective of whether you are a beginner or a guru in growing vegetables, making mistakes is inevitable. You might not repeat the old mistakes,…

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  • How To Preserve A Carved Pumpkin

    So you’ve carved your Halloween pumpkin, and it is a masterpiece! The question is now – “How do you preserve a carved pumpkin from…

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  • Companion Plants For Tomatoes

    Some people believe in tomato companion plants and others think it is some old wives tale. Growing friendly plants together is said to help…

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  • Growing Bell peppers, red pepper, green pepper and yellow pepper

    Growing Bell Peppers For Gardening Beginners

    So you’re interested in growing bell peppers! We find bell peppers in red, green, yellow and purple, plus they are loaded vitamin A and…

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  • Plant, Grow, and Harvest Horseradish

    Horseradish root is exceptionally easy to grow, highly productive, and has a lot of other uses beyond making wasabi. It’s great for clearing sinuses.…

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  • A pile of carrots freshly picked from the ground

    On fertilizing your vegetable garden

    New gardeners and even some veteran gardeners add far more garden fertilizer than their vegetables need. And in many cases when plants are struggling,…

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  • Strawberry

    When to Plant Strawberries (Hint: Think Spring)

    Juicy, sweet strawberries picked from your own garden are simply the best. Plus, taking strawberries from your own garden to your plate is so…

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  • freshly picked strawberries in bowl and on ice in a drink

    Build Your Own Vertical Strawberry Planter (Quick Version)

    Laura from Garden Answer shows us how to make vertical strawberry planters. She walks you through step by step, showing what materials to use,…

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  • Dozens of green and white round tomatillo fruit

    How To Care, Grow And Use Tomatillos

    The Tomatillo plant, an odd-looking distant tomato cousin and one of the essential ingredients in Mexican cuisine, especially recipes of green tomatillo salsa. These…

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  • Flowers with Vegetables: Beauty and the Eats

    Master Gardener Judith Cox gave a presentation on how to grow flowers and vegetables together for beauty and food.

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  • Flowers with Vegetables: Beauty and the Eats

    Master Gardener Judith Cox gave a presentation on how to grow flowers and vegetables together for beauty and food.

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