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It's free, after all, and very good stuff. You'll have to do a careful inspection to be sure it's fully composted and perhaps ask a few questions if you are concerned about what was used to make it, but around here, it's usually a good-quality product—and...

Still others burn them in the drainage ditches along the roadway in front of their homes, or barren spaces among the trees, filling the subdivision with the heavy smoke.I intended to place the statistics (numbers) for the toxins released when burning...

Once a year, he prepares a farm fresh dinner for sulbscribers. Photo courtesy Digital Vision/Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock Increasingly, chefs who are commited to local farms and fresh, organic produce are partnering with farmers to distribute CSA subscriptions.

Most offer an optional quarter-turn bale chute that drops bales on their sides in the perfect position to be retrieved by automatic bale wagons. New Holland began marketing the wildly popular design in 1940.

We gather them up and run them through a shredder for mulching perennials before winter. If we shred them too soon, they tend to start heating up, and we'll only have piles of ash to mulch with.

I tried to mentally fill the space with dainty dianthus and frilly delphinium, but had to resort to envisioning mighty hibiscus clumps and daunting masses of 15-foot. My gardening friend, Susan, said it only took her seven years to get rid of her lawn...

Larry Williams is a spokesman for Pug Inc., one of the first manufacturers of utility vehicles. “They are smaller, lighter machines, which is good if you aren't going to be doing a lot of heavy work.” A 2-wheel-drive machine is less expensive than...

Lynn Friedman/Flickr Towing Packages If possible, get a truck with a towing package. This is the go-to truck for many farmers because it will do pretty much anything required of it.

The laboratory-scale reactor is the size of a credit card, but Goran estimates commercial prototypes that could produce enough biodiesel to power several farms, or about a 100,000 gallons per year, would be about the size of a suitcase.

Chinese elms (Ulmus parvifolia) are weak-limbed trees that invade more desirable tree stands and aggressively absorb moisture and nutrients. Drifting spray can damage them. The best course of action should be determined based on the size of the Chinese...

It was a ggg day of heavy lifting, and today, I am feeling more sore than I have in a very long time. She's going to put in a patio where her pool used to be. Work has begun on our new patio .

Deadheading is a type of pruning where faded blooms are removed from a plant. Plants, particularly roses, are deadheaded to extend the amount of time the plant produces flowers, keep the plant compact and tidy, and stop the plant from producing seeds.

Be aware that fir trees are filled with pitch and, when dried, can literally explode, so take great care if you are going to burn them., you can certainly compost your own tree. Now all that remains are Christmas dinner leftovers, crumbled wrapping paper...

The name "combine" comes from the combination of the harvesting, threshing and grain cleaning functionality in a single machine--the combine harvester. The concept has been modified for harvesting all kinds of other crops, like corn and peas.

The tumbling units are attractive for folks with small yards and are easy to use; they generally yield useable compost the quickest, because they make mixing and aerating easy. If you plan to do lots of construction and remodeling (thinking about that...

Atlantic to Pacific, Canada to Mexico they're the hub of activity on Saturday mornings. On the road before dawn to beat the customers who will be waiting for them as they pull into their stalls.

And, I'm so very lucky to have a friend who is willing to share the good stuff. He put it in the back of his pickup truck and took it to her house. Although it isn't exactly as slick as a modern grow-light system, it functions perfectly.

“We're now up to 300 CSA members, and our biggest challenge at this point is figuring out how much bigger we can get and remain a small, family operation.” The Star Hollow Farm and CSA is located at 22620 Doyle Road, Three Springs, PA.

(This number is down from 38 percent in 1982 and 26 percent in 2007, incidentally.) It's a tough spot to be in—farming isn't exactly an easy profession or hobby and certainly not one you can master.

That said, there were times when the fieldwork halted, perhaps to talk to my brother or father, to change fields or simply to head home. My house sits on a ridge overlooking the fields of a nephew.

Remember, take care of your hydraulics and they will take care of you. If you see signs of fluid leakage, replace the hose immediately. It will protect against problems, and if signs of chafing or abrasion appear, the wrap is easier (and cheaper) to replace...

“These gases, in our case, are fed directly into the intake manifold of the vehicle,” Anderson explains. Courtesy Dan Lutz Dan Lutz and Marc Anderson of Beloit, Wis., are performing experiments to fuel cars with water broken down into hydrogen and...

Practice what you preach, and they will practice it, too. Keep weeds and grasses trimmed so tractor and ATV drivers won't run into hidden obstacles and holes that can cause the vehicle to overturn.

In no time, the pickup was empty, the sledge was empty and I was headed down the road with Roger's raspberry pie. It was certainly nothing fancy, but it worked. The second and third were piled higher and deeper.

Trees As Wildlife Habitat Christmas trees can make a very useful habitat for a range of animal life from birds and small mammals to freshwater fish. After the holidays, keep your Christmas tree out of the landfill by using it for one of these purposes.

The heart of the tractor, the engine provides the power to do heavy work. Most tractors run on gasoline or diesel fuel, with diesel engines usually offering more power than their gas counterparts.

This is far from the case with a simple post-hole digger, which can be used by a single person and requires no special effort to prepare. While augers are useful for large-scale projects, an old-fashioned post hole digger is still a great tool to have...