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A lot of people (mainly people who own commercial organic farms) insist that their products cost more at the grocery store and farmers market because it costs more to produce food using organic methods. But in my personal experience I have found that since changing to organic methods in the...

Ive never grown fresh shell beans and Ive never eaten them but a time or two so I dont know much about them. Is there any difference between the varieties in the seed catalogs that are sold as fresh shell beans and anything sold as green/snap beans? Could green/snap bean varieties like Top...

Does anyone know how long it would take a single chicken to dig up all of the vegetation in a 4 foot by 4 foot area? I am trying to figure out a way to use chickens in a rotation scheme in a vegetable garden. I figure Id plant a cover crop to improve the soil and then let chickens do the work...

Back in the 1980s British TV did a series, The Victorian Kitchen Garden, about restoring a walled garden on a Victorian Era county estate. The 80-something year old head gardener who worked on the estate running a commercial plant nursery was trained as a child by his uncle who was the head...

I am trying to work out a planting schedule for the Piedmont region of South Carolina because I want to buy a piece of property there. However, this is a purely academic exercise since there is practically no chance that I will ever buy property in SC or anywhere else. My own health isnt good...