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8 Must Have Cover and Compost Crops For Your Garden and Homestead

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Larry Braley

As I wrote in my first post on Cindy Conner’s Cover Crops and Compost Crops IN Your Garden DVD, I highly recommend anyone wanting to grow cover crops in their garden to get this DVD.  In this post, I share … Continue reading →

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Taking Cover Cropping to the Next Level

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Larry Braley

Covering cropping is an excellent addition to any gardening or mini-farming venture.  If you’ve seen some of my recent posts, you know that I have been focused on expanding my use of cover crops to improve the heavy clay soil … Continue reading →

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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Six

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Larry Braley

Here’s update number six in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment.  With the winter cold and occasional warm days doing its work on the radishes, the tubers are decaying and decomposing nicely. The tubers in the larger beds are still … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Games – Part 3

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Larry Braley

  We found Zooloretto while looking on the web for the best family games. My boys really love animals and this game is right up their alley. It’s another game that we play regularly and is our No. 2 game. … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Possibilities

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Larry Braley

With the New Year upon us, many of us think about new possibilities and goals for improving our homestead and making things better.  Especially as the new seed catalogs start coming in, I personally like to think about new things … Continue reading →

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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Larry Braley

Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment.  Winter is in full swing at the end of December.  The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading →

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