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Seed Saving Tips

Tips for collecting seed Pick a healthy and vigorous plant to collect from. Don’t collect too soon – immature seeds will not germinate. Collect on a dry day. Look for seedpods which have changed colour from green to brown. Cut or pick the seedheads and lay them out to dry somewhere warm. If the pods aren’t fully open, then wait …

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Rural Outreach & Innovation

The e-MFP Rural Outreach and Innovation (ROI) Action Group brings together multilateral organizations, donors, researchers, practitioners and investors involved in rural microfinance willing to address the challenge of providing adequate financial services to the estimated 500 million smallholder farmers in developing countries.

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Farmbot Genesis: Humanity’s First Open-Source CNC Farming Machine

Precision farming has been hailed as the future of agriculture, sustainability, and the food industry. That’s why a company called FarmBot is working to bring precision agriculture technology to environmentally conscious individuals for the first time. The company’s first product –the FarmBot Genesis — is a do-it-yourself precision farming solution, that, theoretically, anyone can figure out. The system is already …

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Tina Roth Eisenberg

Tina Roth Eisenberg. Designer and Entrepreneur According to Tina Roth Eisenberg, there’s no better demonstration of the companionable spirit at her Boerum Hill co-working space, Friends, than the scene that unfolds at lunch. Between 12 and 1, people leave their computers and trickle in from the neighboring room, filling the large wooden table opposite the kitchen with a hodgepodge of …

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Dreschflegel Bio-Saatgut — Diversity Can Only Be Achieved by Many People in Many Areas

The Dreschflegel community consists of 14 organic farms in different parts of Germany with joint marketing by the Dreschflegel — Versand. Political work is also an important area for them. Dreschflegel is politically informed and intervenes in politics when necessary in addition to their supporting of breeding activities.

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One-Pot Gourmet Gardener by Cinead McTernan

One-Pot Gourmet Gardener: Delicious container recipes to grow together and cook together Hardcover – May 15, 2015 How clever would it be to grow all the ingredients for an entire tasty dish in one garden pot? Well now you can, with The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener, which takes 25 contemporary and classic recipes and shows how to grow their ingredients in one …

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Isabella Dalla Ragione

Isabella Dalla Ragione. Archeologia Arborea Foundation (Non-Profit Organization of Social Utility) President SAN LORENZO DI LERCHI, Italy — There are probably few places as tranquil as the languorous hills that surround Umbria’s Città di Castello. But on her farm, Isabella Dalla Ragione pursues a personal mission — saving ancient fruit trees from extinction — with a strong sense of urgency. …

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Companion Planting Flowers with Vegetables

Planting flowers in the vegetable garden will deter pests and add beauty.  Learn more in this video about the benefits of companion planting with flowers—and discover the best flowers to grow.

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