Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children. It also increases the risk of disease and death from severe infections, according to the World Health Organization. About 250 million preschool children across the world are vitamin A deficient. Many of these live in Africa and South-Eastern Asia. Fortunately, vitamin deficiency is … Read more
Dale Gies says of growing mustard greens,” We didn’t start this project to eliminate the use of chemicals. It was thought that it could help, but nobody had ever done it commercially. We just wanted to keep the soil on our potato farm in Moses Lake, Wash., from blowing away. The fact that we’ve been … Read more
Bringing a new crop to market can be difficult for a farmer or even a group of farmers. However, a group of potato growers along the Oregon/California border, beset with declining profits for their crops over the decades, decided they needed a crop that could bring more value to their farms. They set up a … Read more
Although potatoes are among the simplest crops to cultivate, they are often cultivated by planting pieces of the root system, known as “seed potatoes,” rather than seeds released by the blooms of the plant. Vegetative multiplication of potatoes is a more efficient method of growth than planting seeds, and it’s also simpler for most amateur … Read more
The period when people have to stay around homesteads due to the Covid-19 pandemic is not over, even when there is no lockdown. Use the moment to improve your homestead by landscaping and the overall design of your garden. Do not perform the tasks anyhow but organize well to achieve something for the effort, below … Read more