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How to Choose Apple Varieties for the Home Orchard
When people learn that I write and teach about fruit gardening, I regularly get asked “What’s your favorite apple?” It’s a simple question, but about as easy to answer as which of my children is my favorite.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/how-to-choose-apple-varieties-for-the-home-orchard
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Moving Cows
Every morning, I move the cows to a fresh paddock. We give the cows a new piece of pasture every 24 hours; this is known as rotational grazing, and it is essential to the good health of both the land and the animals feeding upon it.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/moving-cows
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CSA: What is That?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, a relatively recent form of local agriculture that directly connects consumers with farmers.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/csa-what-is-that
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The Science of New High Flavor Tomatoes
When I was a child, during the months of July and August the family laundry basket would get a workout.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/the-science-of-new-high-flavor-tomatoes
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Raising Chickens: A Modern Tragicomedy
Chickens are beautiful, funny, smart, and talented creatures. They can also be flighty, sometimes quite dumb, and difficult to treat for their health-care emergencies.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/raising-chickens-modern-tragicomedy
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The Wild Blueberries of Prince Edward Island
World-famous mussels may have put PEI on the map, but their wild blueberries prove to be the most ephemeral and hard to find.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/wild-blueberries-prince-edward-island
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When Cows Milk Themselves
It was a blustery mid-December morning with temperatures in the low teens — just a day prior to a single digit temperature and a walloping New England winter storm — that we chose to visit a unique dairy farm.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/when-cows-milk-themselves
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Rewriting the Road Map to Sustainability
Near Cañon City, Colorado, USA, Mary Provost, 56, stands in the middle of two hundred goats, a copper sun radiant above her head. “These are my ladies,” she says, affectionately rubbing a Nubian beneath its rounded chin.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/rewriting-road-map-sustainability
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Vertical Farming: Feeding the Cities of the Future?
The future of farming is no more just outdoors, but indoor and vertical. The vertical farming concept took birth in 1999 as an idea in Dr. Dickson Despommier’s class on medical ecology at Columbia University.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/vertical-farming-feeding-cities-future
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Raising Backyard Chickens for Tasty and Healthful Meat
Along with an ever-increasing interest in keeping backyard chickens comes the eternal question: Which breed is best? Given the hundreds of chicken breeds in various sizes, shapes, and colors, that question begs another question: Best for what purpose?
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/raising-backyard-chickens-tasty-healthful-meat
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Blueberry Trees and Blue Berries that are Not Blueberries - The Cook's Cook
Blueberries face production threats that may make price and availability a little less attractive. Enter the Deerberry.
https://thecookscook.com/columns/agriculture/blueberry-trees-blue-berries-not-blueberries