Easy Tips for Growing Fresh Veggies Year Round

News from OSU Ext. Lincoln Co Foods shared a link.

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Home Hydroponics: Easy Tips for Growing Fresh Produce All Year | Epicurious.com

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Imagine growing lettuce on your windowsill year-round -- fresh, and pretty much free. Salad for lunch in December? Why, sure, let me reach over and pick some. Well, Linda Jones, a Colorado homesteader and author, can help you turn this into reality. Jones, a longtime...

News from OSU Ext. Lincoln Co Foods

Sustain productive soils and harvests on smaller farms through technological innovation.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/…/on-smaller-farms-incl…/…

On Smaller Farms, Including Organic Farms, Technology and Tradition Meet

The best way to sustain productive soils and harvests on America’s smaller farms is through technological innovation.

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com|By Andrew C. Revkin

Transform high maintenance lawn into food-producing system

From A High Maintenance Lawn To An Abundant Food Production System In 90 Days

Watch Paul Taylor transform a high maintenance lawn, including building a contour dam and swale, into an abundant food-producing system that will produce tons of food...

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Heads Up- pathogenic H5N2 avian flu

As a head’s up – it appears the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian flu appears to have mutated and is resulting in disposing of 1000s of birds in Canada. The attached article is a good overview of what is currently occurring.

 http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/12/tests-confirm-high-path-h5n2-british-columbia-poultry

 

Tests confirm high-path H5N2 in British Columbia poultry

www.cidrap.umn.edu

 

Master Composter Class 2014

OSU Ext. 2014 Master Composter class. To register, call 541-574-6534.

Master Composter Classes start December 8th-12th, 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.      

Sign up now to ensure a place in this useful & fascinating class.
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lincoln/master-composters

Farming Could Save Veterans, and Visa Versa

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Farming Could Save Veterans, and Vice Versa

U.S. farmers average 58 years old, and many will soon age out of the profession and retire.

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Pressure Easing on Farmland Conversion

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