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Our deck planter box grape vine is on its third year of growth. It looks like there might be grapes

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I’m thrilled to announce that our incubation handbook is now in print! A very skilled intern helped buff up the

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We’ve written in the past about our mushroom experiments, which mostly centered around using plug spawn in logs. So I

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Drilling holes in mushroom logs just got a lot easier and faster with this new shitake drill bit. You will

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Back in Virginia, March was a prime spring-planting month. Since moving to Ohio, it’s usually been an impatient-waiting month instead.

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We needed some more fruit storage when our old hanging basket broke. These metal baskets can be mounted on the

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When I saw the above teaser of a library program, I was instantly hooked by the reference to pigeon compost.

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Daffodil flowers are usually one of the first signs of Spring for us here.

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Peas don’t like heat, so it’s a good idea to plant them as early as possible. But if you plant

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