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Lettuce and other salad leaves are also relatively easy to grow and need to be picked regularly so that they don’t set seed. They are then close to hand and easy to use whenever you or your neighbors need a quick, healthy meal at home. You’ll feel a real sense of pride when you serve and share food using ingredients like salad leaves and herbs sour
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The Medical Cannabis Guidebook: The Definitive Guide to Using and Growing Medicinal Marijuana
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Farmshelf | Grow Where You Are
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As Tizard points out, we’re constantly moving genes around the world, usually in the form of entire genomes. This is how chestnut blight arrived in North America in the first place; it was carried in on Asian chestnut trees, imported from Japan. If we can correct for our earlier tragic mistake by shifting just one more gene around, don’t we owe it
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What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science
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Research has proved that the green revolution in agriculture with its reliance on GMO seeds, chemical fertilizer, insecticides, and unsustainable use of water has temporarily allowed us to feed more people, but it is not sustainable. It comes at the cost of destroying topsoil; poisoning the sky, land, and water; displacing the small farmer; and add
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Banksia | An existing cottage transformed into a high-performance home
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