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New companion planting chart added

We've added a companion planting chart to the site to help you plan your companion planting, and intercropping.  You can find it under the "Got Questions?" menu, or click
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Planning your Square Foot Garden with the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator

If you use the Square Foot Gardening method it is quite easy to use the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator to plan your vegetable garden. While the current version
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Your First Vegetable Garden – Part One: Planning the Garden -The Basics post thumbnail

Your First Vegetable Garden – Part One: Planning the Garden -The Basics

Just starting out with gardening?  Planning a productive vegetable garden is a lot easier than you imagine.  Just remember to start small with your first garden.  Even if you
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Workshop This Saturday: Plan your CSA or Garden with the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator

Colorado Local Sustainability and HeartEye Village CSA in Lafayette, CO will be offering a workshop on using the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to plan your CSA or garden.
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Germinating Seeds in Paper Towel

Garden season (as well as farming season) is upon us and if you haven't already started planning you garden or farm... it's time! For patio level gardening check out
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Potato Towers – Fact or Fiction

By Jim Sincock As we get ready for our second season with our micro-farm and CSA, we are looking into why a couple crops were less successful than they
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Start Planning Your Farm or Garden

We've added a quick intro video to the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator in our side-bar to help you see how easy it is to start planning your farm
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Time to start planing your garden or farm

My mail box keeps filling up with seed catalogs and I find myself paging through my arsenal of gardening books to help me plan for this year's growing season.
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Traditional planting vs. intensive (aka biointensive) planting

By Jim Sincock This diagram shows an example of how a traditionally planted row, and a intensively planted row might look. You can see that traditional methods use wider
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Field Notes: A word from the Developer post thumbnail

Field Notes: A word from the Developer

Greetings Everyone! Wow! What a first year for the FFGC! The pilot study of the calculator at the HeartEye Village CSA in Lafayette Colorado went beautifully. We were able
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