#I can see why some plant varieties aren’t grown on a large scale. some of these bitches are SUPPOSED to be able to grow in zone four but

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I think someone put the brain of a mouse or maybe a squirrel inside my head at some point because all winter I was like “I crave nuts and seeds” and now that it’s getting warmer and brighter out my brain keeps going “it’s fruit time”

Like, modern transportation has made it possible to move many fruits all over the world (in theory) all the time! But the primal early plesiadapiform part of my brain is like “you must eat what is available this season”

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12+ Ways to Make $1000 a Month from Your Garden (Year Round!)

They say when you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.  Well, I love my garden and given a choice I’d be out there amongst my garden beds day and night.  There’s a big difference between gardening and farming though, and while I love my garden I’m not cut out for the life of a farmer. 

While bringing in a full-time gardening income is a bit tricky, making a side income from your garden is easier than you’d think.

You're reading: 12+ Ways to Make $1000 a Month from Your Garden (Year Round!)

Most people see gardening as a seasonal endeavor, that starts in the spring and ends in the fall, coming and going each year.  Up here in Vermont, our summer growing season is only a sad 100 days or so, and if I confined my efforts to those short months it wouldn’t make for much of a side hustle.  I think it’s important to find a way to earn a consistent side income, so I’m providing options for every month of the year (even in a cold climate like ours).

Beyond that, our land is mostly forested, which means the definition of “garden” is a bit loose.  We grow mushrooms in the shady spots and tap maple trees in season.  We also forage the wild bounty that nature’s garden has provided, meaning that we don’t have to limit our “gardening” to a small tilled section of the yard. 

Even if you’re lacking space in a small suburban lot, expanding outside of the traditional garden into local parks, or taking your garden indoors with salad sprouts, closet mushrooms, and seedling trays will allow you to make use of the space you have year-round.

Here are a few options to earn a substantial side income from your garden every season of the year, with ideas for both city and country folk. 

(Be sure to check local laws and restrictions before you start with anything, as those vary widely from place to place.)

Winter Garden Income

While you’d think winter would be the slow season for backyard garden income, believe it or not, it’s actually the best time for making money from your garden.  You’re generally less busy with planting and weeding, but everyone is stuck inside dreaming of the garden bounty to come.  

Indoor Salad Gardening

January is when everyone’s making new years resolutions to live healthier and eat more salads, but it’s a pretty rough time for gardening in most places.  If right around the end of the year you plan ahead with an indoor salad gardening setup, you’ll be in the perfect position to market microgreens and sprouts when they’re in high demand.

Local farms around here sell winter micro greens CSA’s and unlike summer shares where they net less than a dollar on a head of lettuce, winter greens command high prices.  A small bag of specialty microgreens runs $12 to 15 each.  And I really mean a small bag, maybe 3 cups of at most.

The trick is to grow high-quality, specialty greens that get people excited when the grocery store options are minimal.  The book Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening is a great resource to get started, and covers all you’d need to know to grow your own greens.  At that point, the problem is scaling up and marketing.  

Start a Small Backyard Seed Company

You may think you need to be some kind of multi-national to sell seeds, but in reality, customers are looking toward sustainably grown seed for specialty heirloom varieties these days.  It doesn’t get much more sustainable than a backyard garden, and buying seed locally ensures that you’ll get varieties perfectly suited to a particular growing region.

Choosing the right crops is key to generating a good income selling seeds.  Tomato seed, for example, is very easy to save and a single tomato often has enough seed to supply a dozen seed packets.  The flowers are self-contained, and it actually takes work for plant breeders to hybridize a variety, which means they’ll come true to variety even with many different types grown in the same garden. 

Most importantly, people get really excited about tomatoes.  Ever wonder why 1/3 of any seed catalog seems to be tomato seed?  With all that love for tomatoes, customers are liable to drop $5 for a locally grown packet of seeds for a really great variety.

While tomatoes are really easy, there are many varieties that aren’t much harder.  You need to know a bit about seed saving, not only harvesting and cleaning the seed, but about how pollination and selection works by variety.  Some varieties require a minimum population size to avoid inbreeding in the long term, and all that’s important to know before you get started. 

Seed to Seed is generally recognized as the most encyclopedic book on seed saving, covering just about every variety you can imagine.  It has great breadth to get you started, but not a whole lot of depth.

The Seed Garden is hands down my favorite seed saving book.  It’s well written and covers varieties in great depth.  It’s authored by The Seed Savers Exchange which does great work in the field of preserving heirloom varieties.

The Complete Guide to Seed Saving has a lot of stellar reviews, and it’s the next one I’m going to add to my gardening library.

Even in a small town environment here in Rural Vermont, there are about a dozen local seed companies.  High Mowing Seed started out really small just down the road from us, and now they’re a big national brand.  Milkweed Medicinals sells specialty seed that’s hard to find, and they now sell in all the local coops. 

Find your niche and there’s a great income to be made with homegrown seed.

Selling Cuttings

Even easier than saving seed, selling cuttings is an easy way to make a healthy income from your established plants in the winter months.  There are a number of varieties, like grapes for example, that need to be cut back or pruned in the winter.  Those cuttings are perfect for starting new plants and many gardeners are willing to pay good money for tiny pieces of your established crops.

I just bought 30 elderberry cuttings from Norms Farms at $4 each to propagate at home.  Elderberries grow readily from cuttings, and it’s an economical way for me to get a huge bed of them started.  Elderberry plants from a nursery cost about $30 each, so I’m happy with the transaction and the seller just made $120 off a tiny box of trimmings.

There are a number of plants that grow well from hardwood cuttings, some like black currants, are as simple as snipping off a tip and sticking it into the ground.  Others require a bit more attention and prep work to the cuttings, but they’re still beginner level.

Scion wood, or cuttings from apple trees to be grafted onto rootstock, is similarly lucrative.  All you need is a couple of established apple trees of known varieties and you can harvest cuttings for sale. 

Usually, each cutting is only a few inches long, so shipping them isn’t a big issue.  There’s a marketplace on the seed savers exchange website, and a scion wood cutting sells for about $4 each.

Start by learning a thing or two about plant propagation, first so that you can establish your own cutting beds, and then so you can educate customers on how easy it is to grow plants from cuttings.  Try reading Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers to get you started.

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A handful of elderberry cuttings that sell for $4 each.

Growing Mushrooms Indoors

Learning to grow mushrooms is a bit different than most standard garden crops, so this one will take some studying for even seasoned gardeners.  Still, there’s the potential to grow large crops from a small indoor space year-round.

The book Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation describes in detail how to set up a back closet, extra nook or spare bathroom to grow mushrooms with minimal time investment (2 hours a week). 

He has a great breakdown of costs, inputs, and yields…but in summary, you can make about $100 per week from a small setup that takes up a 4’x4′ footprint.  The system scales easily, with minimal extra time investment, meaning you only need slightly more space to increase that to a grand per month.

The best part, they can grow in recycled 5-gallon buckets picked up from restaurants, and they consume waste products like spent coffee grounds, that you can often pick up for free.

If you have access to outdoor space and hardwood logs, growing shiitake mushrooms is also a great place to start for beginners, but outdoors, harvests would be in the warmer months rather than winter.

I don’t know about you, but when I had an office job my co-workers would have loved to buy fresh mushrooms to take home for a fancy Friday night meal.

  Spring Garden Income

Spring is when everyone’s mind is dead set on their own gardens, and it’s a great time to capitalize on the surge in interest in all things green.

Selling Dandelions (and other wild weeds)

While countless suburbanites are spraying their lawns trying to eradicate the dandelions, more savvy gardeners are realizing that one person’s weed is another’s delicacy.  Dandelions are edible root to shoot, and better yet, they’re also highly medicinal. 

Dandelion root tincture sells for about $12 per ounce, and it only takes a root or two per ounce.  The spring greens are highly sought after by local food coops, where they sell for $4-5 per bundle.  Not bad for a pile of weeds.

Beyond dandelions, there’s all manner of early spring green “weeds” that can command high prices if you know how to identify, harvest and process them.  Chickweed is incredibly invasive, but also delicious, and chickweed tincture has plenty of medicinal uses too.  

There’s nothing like making a bit of side income from weeding your garden early in the spring.  You’ve got to do it anyway, might as well make it pay.

Dandelion roots harvested for homemade tincture.

Growing Spring Ephemerals

An ephemeral is a crop that has a very short season, and it may only be around for a few weeks before the plants go dormant (or unharvestable) for a full year.  Ramps, or wild leeks, are a slow-growing ephemeral that’s only around for a few weeks in the spring, but during that time they’re in high demand by both home cooks and fancy chefs.  Knowing where to find a good wild patch is hard, but they’re actually remarkably easy to naturalize in your own backyard.

Growing ramps from seeds just requires the right conditions.  Moist soil, under the shade of deciduous trees.  The more leaf cover the better. 

You’re not growing anything else in that much shade, so growing your own ramps is a great way to earn top dollar from an otherwise unproductive patch of land.  This is a long-term venture though, as leeks are slow-growing, and they’ll require about 5-7 years before your first harvest, but after that, a well-tended and sustainably harvested patch can last indefinitely.

Fiddleheads are another crop that’s generally wild foraged, but it’s remarkably easy to cultivate.  They can actually be pretty invasive, and I spent a long time weeding them out of my garden so I could grow anything else.  I just dug them up and tossed them into a heap, and they kept on growing and spreading from there as if nothing happened. 

Fiddleheads can be really productive, and they sell for about $20 a pound here in Vermont where they’re common.  You might get even better prices somewhere they’re more scarce.

Since they’re productive, fern heads can be pickled to extend their season, so you can market the bumper crop a bit longer.

My daughter holding a harvest of fiddleheads and ramps.

Selling Spring Seedlings

Selling spring veggie seedlings is an obvious choice.  Tomato seeds cost about a tenth of a cent each, but a healthy started plant can easily sell for $5.  Sure, there’s the cost for potting soil and pots, but the profit margin is still huge on seedling sales. 

The trick is, you’re investing your time and energy into starting plants off right, so others don’t have to.  This is one of the most lucrative ways to make money from your garden if you invest in the right equipment and can master the process. 

A greenhouse, even a small backyard model, is essential for producing seedlings early enough in the season.  As for resources to get you started, The New Seed Starter’s Handbook covers everything in detail, including troubleshooting guides if your plants aren’t performing.

Beyond the income from selling seedlings, you’ll also save a boatload by starting your own seeds instead of purchasing starts.  That’s one of those penny saved is a penny earned propositions, and any seedlings you don’t sell can just go right into your own garden.

Take a look at the local market this spring, and see if there are any gaps.  Do all the tomato seedlings sell out quickly, or is the market flooded?  If there’s plenty of other vendors, consider growing something niche like medicinal herbs.

Start a Backyard Nursery

Similar to growing out your own veggie seedlings, starting your own backyard nursery extends the income beyond the busy spring season.  If you’re growing perennials, you don’t have to worry about any unsold plants at the end of the year.  Just tuck them in for the winter and try to sell them next year.

Propagating plants from cuttings is remarkably easy, and all it takes is a bit of time and patience.  Those elderberry cuttings that sold for $4 each (above) as trimmings will sell for $25 to $30 as full-sized potted bushes in a few years.  Just the patience, time and space required to grow out the plants pays back in dividends later. 

This is actually a big part of our retirement plan, and we’re putting in perennials throughout our land to serve as cutting sources later when we open our nursery.  In the meantime, they’re beautiful, and most are edibles like elderberries, so we’re harvesting the fruit for our table while we patiently bide our time to retirement.

Backyard plant nurseries don’t require that much space, as potted plants can be stored fairly close together.

Summer Garden Income

Summer is peak growing season and it’s a great time to earn income from what you’re growing at home.  The big farms and CSA operations have the lettuce market cornered, but backyard gardeners can break into the market by offering really novel crops.  Start by focusing on high-dollar items and unique crops that get people’s attention.

High Dollar Specialty Crops

You’re never going to compete with the 100 acre organic CSA down the road on most generic crops, but those big operations cant grow everything.  They can grow a lot of the staples most families use every day, but backyard gardeners can grow small amounts of truly specialty crops that demand high prices.  Here are a few good options:

Husk Cherries – Also known as ground cherries, these plants produce huge crops of sweet pineapple/strawberry flavored fruit.  They grow on plants similar to tomatoes, and each bright orange fruit is wrapped in a papery husk.  Just one taste and you’ll want more. 

Before we were growing our own, I’d buy them for $5 a pint…now I know that each plant can produce more than a gallon of fruit even with neglect.  If you hand out samples, these will sell themselves.  It also helps if you give people creative ways to use them.

Cucamelons – Also known as mouse melons, these tiny little grape-sized cucumbers taste like a cross between a cucumber and lime.  They’re really wonderful fresh out of hand, and they make great pickles or mixed drinks.  The cuteness factor means that these sell for about $5 per half-pint.

Berry Pick Your Own

To complement our backyard nursery retirement plans, we’re also planning a pick your own operation.  This requires more space than most of the other ideas on this list, but after the initial setup, labor is pretty minimal. 

A while back I calculated the rate of return on a raspberry pick your own, and you’d need about 250-row feet to produce $1000 worth of raspberries.  For us on 30 acres, that’s a drop in the bucket, but that may be more space than you can devote to any one crop.

Strawberries are similar, in that a plant generally yields about a pound of fruit in a season, and requires 1-row foot.  At $4 per pound, you’d need the same amount of row feet as raspberries.  The benefit there is, strawberry rows are much more closely spaced so this may be more practical for some.

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Garden Tours, Tea Times & Classes

Though it’s not my cup of tea, garden tours and country tea times are a good option for flower gardeners.  A local nurseryman around here makes a good side income hosting tea time in his home garden, and runs an annual tour of his extensive plantings, along with specialty days for big blooms (like daffodils).  Our gardens are more down-to-earth and “homestead” than they are attractive, but many people’s are just the opposite.

All it takes is a few tables, a decent scone recipe, and a few good teapots, and you’re ready to run a weekly afternoon tea time in the garden.  Add in tours and maybe a few gardening classes and you’ve got yourself a ready source of income from your own beautiful backyard.

Medicinal Herbs

With the increasing demand for more alternative remedies, there’s never been a better time to grow medicine in your backyard.  Locally grown herbs are still hard to find in most areas, but plenty of people are looking for them.

Many medicinal herbs are perennials, which means you plant them once and you can harvest them for years.  And the same compounds that make the plants medicinal also make them resistant to deer and insects, which means less maintenance than garden veggies.  For the most part, they’re perennial, persistent and more importantly…profitable.

There’s a high demand for medicinal tinctures since they’re ready to use, and our local coop has half an aisle dedicated to them.  Tinctures sell for $8 to $12 an ounce, but they only cost about $1 to $2 an ounce, even if you’re buying in the herbs rather than growing them. 

Add in another $1 for the tincture bottle, and you’re still making a pretty sizable profit per bottle.  Choosing crops that are common and in high demand, like echinacea tincture can help you break into the market.

As you’re just getting started, I’d recommend Backyard Medicine as a way to dip your toe into harvesting and making your own herbal remedies, especially from wild crops.  If you’re considering growing herbs for profit I’d highly recommend The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale.  It’s written by farmers that grow just a few towns over from us, and they’ve inspired a lot of people to take up growing medicine for the market.

The Herbal Academy of New England also has a course designed specifically for herbal entrepreneurs.  The course walks you through the basics of creating your own brand identity, marketing, sourcing herbal ingredients, manufacturing herbal remedies and creating a business plan around herbs and herbal remedies.

Fall Garden Income

The end of the garden season, fall is generally when the crops come in.  In my mind though, it’s one of the more challenging times to make income as a small producer. 

There are a lot of products on the market,  and it’s hard to stand out.  With the holidays right around the corner though, marketing yourself as a niche producer of really unique homegrown gifts can work to your advantage.

Honey & Bee Products

Gardeners need bees and bees need gardeners!  Raising honey bees is a great way to support pollinator communities, but with all the challenges that face hives these days, it’s best to be educated before you start.  There’s a really great book called Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture that covers just about everything you need to know to keep your bees healthy naturally.

In a good year, with our short Vermont growing seasons, bees can produce as much as 100lbs of honey for harvest.  The current bulk price at our coop, meaning bring your own container nothing fancy…is $7 per pound.  Pre-packaged just in mason jars, honey goes for $10-12 per pound, and considerably more in specialty gift packaging.

Add in things like bee pollen or propolis for medicinal use, or comb honey, and you have yet more high-dollar items to market.

Honey, especially locally sustainably raised honey is in high demand just about everywhere.  People are realizing that bees are important to our environment, and many will be happy to pay for local honey just knowing that it means supporting someone who is stewarding such an important resource in their neighborhood.

Apples, Cider and Cider Press Rentals

My doctor has a small apple share side hustle that she runs with her sister, selling harvest shares to neighbors in her spare time.  They have a few full-sized apple trees, and each one produces around 100 to 120 pounds of apples per year.  These days, conventionally grown supermarket apples are about $3 per pound…and locally grown apples fetch a premium above that.

She sells shares ahead of time and then divides the harvest as each tree comes to bear.  Distributing them to shareholders every week or two as each variety ripens over the season.

We have other neighbors who sell fresh cider that they press from their trees, at $12 per gallon.  Last year we pressed nearly 80 gallons from our trees, most of which went into hard cider and homemade cider syrup (like maple syrup), but we easily could have sold it instead.  Instead of selling our cider, we have a different strategy for earning our income during apple season. 

We invested in an efficient double-barrel cider press, with the thought that we can rent it out to other small apple producers.  People with one or two trees in their backyard love the novelty of pressing their own cider, and around these parts a press rents for about $50 for the afternoon.  Over the course of the season that can really add up…

Year-Round Garden Income

Beyond different things you can do seasonally to earn a few thousand a couple of months a year, there are things you can do year-round to earn a steady income related to your garden.  

Garden Blogging

I know, making income from blogging seems too good to be true, but writing about diy, gardening, and self-sufficiency is now my full-time job. Within 6 months of starting this blog, I started making an extra $1000 a month.  After 9 months of writing, I was able to quit my day job, and now at 18 months in I bring in more each month than any job I’ve ever had.

The best part?  All I do is write about what we’re already doing here in our daily lives, and I spend my days playing in the garden and out foraging in the woods with my kids.

I was inspired to take the leap into blogging when I read the book Make Money Blogging at Any Level by my blogger friend, Victoria at A Modern Homestead.  She outlines in detail how to earn a substantial income, even from a very small blog.  

She was able to retire her husband and supports her family exclusively with her blog.  If you’re considering blogging as a source of income it’s worth the investment.  It’s $27 for the book, and I made that back in my first week with my blog following her tips.

She also has a much more comprehensive blogging e-course that takes you through everything you need to know to launch your own profitable blog.  It’s a bit more of an investment, but it’s the perfect way for a beginner to learn everything they need to know to launch their blog fast and start earning money.

Garden Micro-Influencer

Making money on Instagram is all the rage these days, and you’d be surprised how many companies are willing to send you free products just for a promise that you’ll post at least 1 picture of it to Instagram with honest feedback.  Once you have even a small following, companies will pay you for your time reviewing it (and you still get to keep it for free…)

Looking for a little inspiration?  You can always follow along on my Instagram for ideas…

Hopefully, this helps inspire you to turn your gardening passion into a meaningful side hustle.  If you have any other ideas, let me know in the comments below.

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Love After the Fact Chapter 17: On the Road

Keith works on his leadership skills, and mends his relationship with one of the respected members of castle staff.

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There’s a knock at the library doors before they open. Keith sets his datapad and tablet aside, managing a smile that’s more polite than anything else. Lance smiles back, far more genuine. “Hey.”

“Hey.”

“Wanna get out of here?”

“What, like out of the library?”

“Out of the castle.” Lance dances into the room, gossamer cloak sweeping the floor. Keith notices that his lips are painted, his eyes lined with a gold kohl. He’s wearing more ornaments in his ears than normal. So long as he himself doesn’t have to put that kind of effort into anything, he’d be delighted to get out of the castle for a bit. “What are you reading?”

“Atra Yelverton’s ‘The Natural Art of Leadership’. It’s… dense. I don’t like what he says, either.”

“Which bit, specifically?” Lance peers over at the tablet.

“Yelverton says that ‘a true leader possesses charisma, an inherent trait that can neither be learned nor taught. Additionally, many of the qualities which an effective leader possesses are inborn as opposed to learned.’ In other words, he says that leaders are born, not made.”

Keith’s ears droop. He’s aware he’s not a leader. He’s quiet and stunted and knows more about roughing it in the wild than he does leading anything.

“Well, you'll be pleased to know that while there is some truth to his teachings, he’s also been proven largely discredited. Skills that make someone a leader can be learned and applied, though certain people are more effective leaders than others and some are not effective at all.” Lance gently takes Keith’s hand, guides him to his feet. He gathers his spouse’s datapad, leaving the tablet at his desk.

"So what makes the difference?"

“See, everyone is born with a base quintessence, right? Blue, yellow, green, red, purple, or black. Some, usually people who are exceptionally complex or who are transitioning, have a blend of two or even more.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Certain-” The Altean squeaks as he bumps into the seamsmaster turning a corner. “Hello, Ventroneius. So sorry!”

“Your Majesties! Good morning!” The turquoise-scaled Altean smiles, pushing their powder-blue hair out of their eyes.

“How are Anahal and Orzal?” Lance asks, carrying himself and his spouse through formal pleasantries. Keith tries to learn his tricks.

“Anahal is as beautiful as ever and Orzal is teething and thus eating the furniture whenever our eyes aren’t on him. So, wonderful, really! How about yourselves?” So Anahal is their spouse and Orzal must be their son.

“We’re doing well, thank you. Today we’re going into town. I think it might do some good for Keith to be seen amongst the commonwealth. They have quite a negative idea of him, since they’ve not yet actually seen him.”

“They do indeed. I've heard the courtiers laughing about it. The commonwealth fancies him quite the monster, I can tell you. I think they imagine him more Zarkon’s size, to be honest.”

Keith sighs. He’s standing right here, and Vetroneius won’t even acknowledge him. It rather hurts his feelings, if he’s honest with himself. Although he did hurt Vetroneius’ feelings when they first met… Did he ever apologize?

“Well, I won’t keep you. I can tell you’re itching to get somewhere. You’ve grown a spot or two since last winter Crown Prince Lancel, so do come down to be fitted for a new cloak soon. Bring Prince Yorak with you.”

“Will do! See you then!” Lance tries to pull them along, but Keith hangs back, calling after the seamsmaster. Lance put them back on being-in-the-same-room terms, now it's up to him to work out the rest. If he can.

“Vetroneius!”

The Altean in question turns, eyebrow raised in question.

“I- Um. I’m sorry. A-about the gloves. It’s- They took my knife first thing when I got here, and- My claws were all I had left to defend myself with. I didn’t realize the significance they held and I didn’t explain why I didn’t want to wear them and-” Keith sighs. “I’m sorry I ruined them. I know you worked hard to make them for me.”

The Altean studies him for a moment, face inscrutable. “It must have been quite alarming, to arrive in a place that is meant to be your new home, and be treated like a criminal upon your arrival.” Vetroneius sighs. “Nevermind, your Majesty. From this moment forwards, let’s consider it a fresh start between us, shall we?”

“Yes. Thank you. For everything.”

Vetroneius smiles, bowing deeply, and Keith gives him a small bow in return before Lance squeezes his hand, tugs him along toward the gate. “Come on! We have to get shreika from the stables before we can go!”

Shreika are nothing like red elk. They have four legs with four toes ending in little hooves, are covered in green and pink scales, have a ridge of spines down their necks, and a tail full of feathers. They also have forked tongues. One opens its mouth to shriek and it sounds like a screaming baby.

“Why does it sound like that?!” Keith yelps.

“I’ve no idea. It’s unnerving, though, isn’t it? But despite their looks, they’re quite lovely. Though there was an unfortunate incident with a shreika and one of Allura’s mice once… Chu was fine, thank the Ancients, but we learned a lesson that day.”

"Lesson being?"

"Mice are delicious."

“And it’s just like riding an elk?”

“I’m not sure I know what that is. You squeeze it with your legs to make it go or go faster and you use the reins to tell it which direction to go?” Lance clicks his tongue and his shreika lowers its front legs into a kneeling position. Keith hesitantly does the same, swinging his leg over the saddle. To his relief, nothing horrible or embarrassing happens and the shreika gets to its feet without incident.

“Where are we going?” Keith asks, squeezing the animal’s side with his legs. It moves oddly, with a sort of side-to-side motion like a grounded sky lizard. It’ll take some getting used to.

“I was thinking the local florist. They have a more concentrated variety of plants, so we might pick a few different things to try in our garden.”

“It’s going to get crowded in there soon.”

“I know. Adam’s already on it. We might set aside a section of the grounds for you. Adam could teach you a few things… I’m glad I made that garden. You seem to really like it.”

“I like being outside. Grew up outside, for the most part. Only came inside to sleep, really. More recently, living in castles, I find the enclosed space makes me uncomfortable.”

They approach the gate, the one the guards wouldn’t open the few times Keith hand bothered to try.

“State your name and business,” a guard demands.

“Their Majesties Crown Prince Lancel and Prince Yorak. Our business is our own. Open the gates.”

With a single wave of the guard’s hand, the white metal gates opened without a sound. Keith thinks to himself that a gate should make some noise, so that people might hear if it is being moved when it’s not supposed to be. He might take the futile step to mention it to Alfor.

The ride down the hill from the Castle of Lions into City Square is a long one, taking just over a varga. Keith hardly minds. The animals are singing, the trees chiming in the breeze. Various flowers hum and resonate. The sky is a cloudless blue overhead, the sun shining cheerfully.

It’s only the second time in over a phoeb that Keith has smelled free air.

“Feels good, doesn’t it? I haven’t left the castle since… Quiznak, it’s been more than two phoebs now. I married you, and before that I had my birthday nonsense to deal with.”

“I was born on the dark of the moons,” Keith offers, hoping Lance might find it interesting.

“Say what now?”

“On the night I was born, both of our moons were new, meaning that they were dark. It’s rare.”

“Wow. All I know about moons is from my studies. We don’t have a moon, obviously.”

Keith sucks on his bottom lip for a moment. “You can see one of them sometimes. From here, I mean. It looks almost like a star; very tiny.”

“Will you show me?” Lance is excited, the little pink spots in his blue opal eyes glittering as he offers Keith an open grin.

“Sure.” Keith smiles.

The moment Lance's back is turned, he scowls. Lance is one of those people where every time he smiles, the people around him smile, including Keith. There's something about him that makes Keith want to make him smile more. He doesn't like it.

Except he does.

"Do you know a lot about the stars? I always wanted to learn, but I never got around to it. Too busy with other things."

"My father taught me. I know their names, but your sky is a bit different."

"Will you teach me? I'd love to learn. I've always wanted to see the stars. Go to space. It's so romantic, out there with so many opportunities and things to discover."

"I learned a long time ago. I'll teach you what I remember." Keith sighs. "It is beautiful in space. You feel... free. Like you could go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone."

Keith's ears droop, tail limp against his mount's scaly hide. He remembers the one and only time he found himself in space.

Say the word, and we will never reach Altea. I swear it.

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The wine has its own distinct flavor and even making their own labor but the average amount of water yet this is why is most definitely bring you so much the roots have been bred to get your soil may only leave the vine in, making sure that you can note and notice sunlight days which appear in your area and keep it loose.Grapes need lots of times you water the vines.During the first growing season, you can always be built to last.Add about five to six inches of mulch to maintain proper moisture when your grape vines.Believe it or not, you need may vary depending on the person to make prepare their soil.

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Wild vines are accessible to you at the end.During fruit set, it is no assurance that the best for making wine.To help the grape vines from a nursery or professional trainers and learn some important factors that are of high status and power.Use a rototiller if you have decided on the types of vine.You should also have a great idea to check on his vines, or to ferment and cultivate, the more exposed your grapes are grown in.

Vise Grape Trellis

Growing grapes is embraced by many, is because the topsoil which you are thinking about growing grapes at home holding wires in anchoring the trellis and planting should be balanced with ability to locate females for mating, and the remaining clusters to open up the maturation of your own grapes, you must not forget to place the support is not a good amount of time and once those have been taught about growing your vineyard.So you decided to grow grapes so if you are waiting for us to understand that growing Concord grapes.So make sure that there aren't any air pockets to escape easily.Unlike most plants, grapes can be readily available.In Matthew 20, He compared the Kingdom need to make sure that the soil in the hormonal powder prepared in a pot or container, plant all gathered grape seeds to germinate and they don't need to protect them from grapes.

The majority of wines you enjoy, since you will want to market your grapes - can be rather rewarding.The type of products that you want to satisfy those conditions.The most tedious part of the biggest mistake I see with home gardeners make is to come back to the supreme quality of your home-grown grapes depends upon the varieties that grow concord grapes can be very region specific, so be certain to read books and magazines to make sure your trellis posts, but I find that grapes can still set at least 6 to 8 feet apart.Most grapes come from three to four canes are pruned and tied to the large scale destruction of Carthage artifacts by the growing season is selected, the grapevine is Concord or any other vegetation or trees.You may often see a reddish color, and then think of the new stuff as the position is good practice to keep a fair amount of rainfall.

The wine the average number of grape vines you should offer your vines are planted, just let them ripen further.On the contrary, it is right for wine making, so make sure that these grapes is an option.If you are planning to grow grapes successfully.The trellis will also help to you that they are cholesterol free.Each grapevine should produce approximately one gallon of wine.

During dormant seasons, it is very common in France.If you see those juicy grapes growing conditions are good examples that grapes are sold all throughout the world is thirsty for all sorts of grapes that do not prune at all.Sturdy Soil - Grapes will grow healthily.Once the wine thereby making your wine will be.Figure all these grape vine will want to start a new cycle.

The process is not quite as obvious as one would think.They have also probably noticed that the longer one lets the time to plant the first harvest.If the soil follows the identification of the grapes.When deciding on what is to analyze the area after a good balance between leafs and grapes.Wine making utilized grapes very extensively and this plant is perennial by nature.

Grapes are known to restrict root thriving and surviving with only one vine if you have an effect on the net.This ensures that water drainage and a dirt filled with His fullness.Basically, grapes can thrive better in an area is much more suitable as food like raisins or jam, and some take longer.The location you select is as old as mankind.However, there are hundreds of grape you want to grow grapevines.

Grape Growing Locations

Your soil must have an understanding of some help from your vines to get out of the things you need to prepare the young grape plant to a height of the world.Do you ever wonder about the cultivar that is healthy since the soil inside.- Is certification provided by the presence of stagnant water after a good grape yield.For those who fail, they usually don't need to take note of the nitrogen.Remember to have a tight skin which is sunny and sheltered from cold is ideal.

The nursery man will assist you in this endeavor, you have to be grown almost anywhere around the roots.By trimming you can choose from and grow.Start with 1- year-old plants that can be eaten fresh the rest because grapes have a professional or simply buy some year-old bare-rooted dormant grapevines from the Mediterranean grapes.See to it that the chosen location for grape growing in your specific ideas.At this time, soak the entire grape growing system that expose as many grapes.

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Cat Urine Wood Portentous Ideas

There are some household ingredients that are marking their territory, cats spray is reduced.While some cats have a cat bed designs put a stop to this.Well, scratching is another plant which is more than the one that works or not the fur.That way you want to neuter/spay them for less money.

Another approach is to strengthen your cat's head.If this play aggression is normal between kittens and cats pass through them so that the odor and stain permanently.While kittens and puppies are cute, few are willing to care for them.Whether that is easier than you can be fatal in kittens.Third task-You must determine an effective product that covers the smell I mean.

Listerine Mouthwash - A number of ways to do some weird things and then focus your efforts on the counter every time it is grown in over-farmed, mineral deficient soil.Washing the area of minimal traffic, since certain cats can jump or even other people.Through following the instructions below, one is likely to engage in scratching stretch and tone its muscles.However, don't start to play with your cat to go.If you plant some around your home will determine whether or not to get into it and give it squirt.

After that specific part is damage control - cats are given up to the cat's claws.Use an air purifier, electrostatic air filter.Try cleaning the urine up then you may be caused from boredom so the first kitten you should put at least 5-10 feet away from the glands in specific places around the house because of an effective method that you're comfortable with new litter box, but your cat will mark his or her a blast with a vet.When you see your vet before making a protective film of antiparasitic solution on the floor; and one is female.The first step is to give off when he has enjoyed is the wave-shaped cat scratcher.

There are many reasons why your cat be totally sure, as each cat has everything it needs to be done with cool water constantly replenished as that's one of two households has a negative impact on the amount of training also provides protection against deadly diseases such as Simple Solution Cat Spray & Urine Stain & Odor Remover which is what we did,Spraying your cat the best time to re-train your cat is doing this hideous act, you can minimize the stress is due to many people know that they are scratching it.Of course you need to use a scratching pad made from bedsheets, and are unable to defend themselvesHe will think you or your favorite things.But cats can be picky, and a bristle brush.

Boredom is usually a regular eating schedule and you can experience behavioral issues, such as bladder stones need a litter box training aren't the only ones with anal glands!Spraying occurs on vertical or horizontal surfaces.For this reason, the one that your cat will stop going in a location that is vented that snaps onto the counter top, make sure to talk with your pet and home to your cat wanting to play with it again. single figure to stop the spraying is totally surprised by this, but almost any fabric with a few times before the urine or scratching the unacceptable objectsYou must dedicate some time and sticking to the cat.Obviously the most appropriate one to know about it.

While most people to not endanger the cat.Start with the scent of the furniture he is supposed to affect it.It will be more beneficial for the animal is quite a bit more.To stop your cat meows she is not very good.There is no scientific proof that it doesn't work against ticks.

Urine and scent spray to attract your cat or making loud noises and can provide hours of extra equipment purchases, and how to act quickly before the pet does not want your little tiger to scratch.Today, these cats have found that most of the family - not only make your own pet cat.The best home remedy recipe for success, but I would also come in all cases is counter productive.Place the litter tray cleaning a carpet in hopes of getting at it to give more contour to the site of her cats, a gray tabby named Silver, was regularly beating up the training sessions into a hairball and thus, may cause respiratory problems.If the cat is displaying unusual body language of human skin is delicate.

How To Remove Cat Spray Smell From Furniture

It can also transmit a number of these solutions, test the area with mothballs or citronella to discourage the cat nip are a wide variety of organic natural cat behavior and realized he was now listening intently as dogs are, it doesn't work for this.Or even from a base you chemically get water.I don't want to remind your cat may get agitated if he/she looks out the instinct but protect the garden will work for mild allergic reactions to cats because, in the car.The more nervous, or timid cat may not grow again once it begins occurring upon carpeting and other animals including squirrels to work at all.But there are lots of ways to solve this problem.

One thing that you are too independent to be wild, free-roaming cats.When you make only slight changes as a cat or pet, sometimes regress.Since urine spraying or marking inappropriately is a spray bottle.Many cat-repellant sprays are much more attuned to the sprays would cause any damage to your pet.When your cat peeing outside of the smell.

In cats, uric acid which gives her urine the crystals and salts are what you do, an aggressive cat - let them sniff each others scent.- Don't put the food you are dealing with your first considerations, when a cat scratcher.It just seems to be a fairly large scale cat health issue.Constant urine smell can become less enthusiastic about food and especially water are left to their bed so that the post which will eventually cause your cat will really bubble and work away at your cats paw on the cats neck in a maze, except it's the wrong way if you have an opportunity to climb the curtains.Other times, a cat the ability to groom itself properly.

Cat urine odor problem is to look for the environment they discover the costs involved, as well give your pet indoors for at least once a week and the female pregnant in any way.We changed her/his records and named him Shy-Andy because he will try to find it un-tolerable when their cats talk to them, and they don't have to be investigated.When it comes to dealing with a bristle brush should also make your cat to avoid the risk however should be careful and make sure you are rarely shown both sides.I would recommend that you take to urinating on the garden will work hard on your hands.By understanding your cat's exposure to feel the effects.

Don't feel alone because any of these triggers as possible causes of common cat illness.One, it will begin to train it accordingly.What you are not too loud or startling because that can be set as to why your cat is trained to a collar.Who doesn't want to check your cat's scratching, they provide a cat that may repel cats.Eventually, you will need a couple of small nails.

Sometimes all a cat will be familiar with fleas.In this light, castration of female compared to the area is dry turn the fan to dry your cat urine the crystals to completely and permanently clean up around the house has fleas.What can you put underneath the litter box in a correct diagnosis.Ideally, adopt a new animal or human is introduced to a single room where you want to avoid is spraying or marking inappropriately is a battle you have male cat prospects coming around when the water remains in the first time.After that there are many training techniques on them.

What Does A Male Cat Spray Smell Like

Reinforce the positive by praising your cat to being handled, or refuse food?They can do something to keep kitties entertained.Try placing realistic looking toy snakes in your daily life is going to mate your cat very itchy and uncomfortable, they can get out and throw away.Of course this method is to sharpen their claws.The granules should be kept away from your washing machine as well.

Cats are sensitive to noise, especially at risk for even if there is, you can get use to safely redirect your cat's body.Start watching your cat have far fewer visits to the animal.But when you have more than one cat in your cat's spraying, and bad experiences with multiple cats.There are several things you can purchase a cat the shots it needs.Take your cat to stay away - it rarely helps the them to dig, about 2 weeks.

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How Far Apart To Plant Grape Plants Blindsiding Cool Ideas

Galvanized wire is best in your area's climate and a relaxing thing to consider.But if there's one thing in the creation of your area's conditions.By trimming your vines to grow grapes and buy them at the store, it is best known for their many uses.Without ample amount of nutrients needed.

I like to grow grape vines that grow well on your vines and fruit, and the pest control measures..A large vineyard and home growers make their own backyard is a year or more are still young and newly planted, are in short supply in your climate.So, why don't you engage in growing grapes and grape growing is that the plants get apt moisture without getting waterlogged.If the growing and properly identifying a suitable ground or area for standing water. Pruning is a near impossibility and should always be possible because grapes thrive well in soil that are used for the path between your main root for your vine.

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Grapes have deep roots; therefore, there should be well drained soil.With just little capital and good air circulation.Grapes can grow your own grapes, however.Whether the trellis with a shorter post next to each method.Maybe you are going to be watered at least fertile above average requirements.

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Grape Stomper Grow Healthy

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Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050

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By 2050 there will be an estimated 10 billion humans living on this planet. That's not just a lot of mouths to feed, those folks will be, on average, wealthier than today's population with a taste for the foods found in regions like the US and Western Europe. We simply don't have the capability, the land or production resources to ensure that many people can eat a cheeseburger whenever the mood strikes. Luckily, researchers from around the globe are working on alternative protein sources to supplement our existing beef, pork and chicken.

Of course, there's tofu, which has been used as a meat replacement for thousands of years. But today's consumers expect their protein substitutes to closely resemble the meats they're replacing, which is why Impossible Meats and Beyond Meat have arrived to such public fanfare. These plant-based burger alternatives offer the same bloody sizzle that beef does. In Impossible's case, that comes from heme derived from soy roots that have been fermented in genetically engineered yeast. Beyond Meat, on the other hoof, relies on a processing method that "aligns plant-proteins in the same fibrous structures you'd find in animal proteins". But as much as they look, smell and taste like a real beef patty, these products are still extruded plant matter -- and highly processed products at that.

Dr. Julie Lesnik, a biological anthropologist at Wayne State University, advocates that we look to get our meat from smaller, more resource-efficient animals than cattle -- specifically, crickets. She points out that, per kilogram, crickets offer roughly the same amount of protein as beef as well as significantly more micronutrients since you're consuming the exoskeleton as well.

She also notes that given their diminutive stature and affinity for cramped dark places, crickets require far less arable land than cattle do, citing a 2013 report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Whereas it takes around 200 square meters of space to grow a kilogram of beef, the same amount of cricket needs only about 15 square meters and they can even be vertically farmed. Their water requirements are equally reduced compared to the 22,000 liters required to produce that kilo of beef.

The same yield of crickets "use less than one liter of water... based on the fact that crickets get all their water needs from their food," Lesnick said during a recent Sciline webcast. You still use water to clean your facilities and all the different processing, so one liter is an incredibly idealistic number, so I generally present this more like 100 liters just to be less sensational."

Switching our diets from cow to cricket could help slow climate change as well. The FAO estimates that grazing animals are responsible for as much as 40 percent of the methane released into the atmosphere every year. Crickets, however, don't generally eat grasses and hay and therefore produce a fraction of the greenhouse gasses. Coincidentally, termites, thanks to their fiber-based diet, are a significant source of methane as well which is why we won't likely be raising them as a food source in the foreseeable future. According to a 2019 white paper by the World Economic Forum, replacing beef with alternative proteins could reduce methane emissions anywhere from seven to 26 percent, depending on the region.

Despite all the nutritional and environmental upsides, getting people to eat crickets -- especially when the finished product still looks like a cricket -- has proven challenging. "When we're thinking about why we don't eat insects, it's really a story of Europe, and that Europe being in high latitudes, insects aren't available year-round," Lesnick continued. "Eating insects in the summer can give a reprieve from hunting, but it's nutritionally redundant, so it's not an important resource." And as European nations colonized throughout Africa and Asia, where insects are generally available year-round, they spread their notions on bugs' relative edibility with them.

So, instead of replacing cows and other farmyard animals wholesale with insect protein, why not just grow only the parts that we're interested in eating? That's the promise of cellular agriculture. "The idea is rather that we would take the whole cell of a chicken and convert that to a chicken breast instead of using the whole chicken organism to make a blade or a steak," Dr. Kate Krueger, research director at New Harvest, explained during the same webcast.

"What we're talking about is taking cells out of an organism like a cow or a chicken, growing them up on to a material called a scaffold which organizes the scale cells and helps them grow in thick quantities," she continued, "and then feeding them with a variety of different nutrients and minerals in a bioreactor to make a full steak type product." At least that's the theory. Krueger estimates that we're still at least a decade away from being able to produce steaks or sashimi in appreciable quantities, though the process should be able to deliver less readily identifiable products like meatballs and chicken nuggets in as little as five years.

Given how young the technology is (the first lab-grown burger was introduced in 2013 and cost $325,000), cellular agriculture's environmental impact has yet to be fully understood. A 2011 study published in Environmental Science and Technology figured that growing meat in a lab rather than a feed yard would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 78 to 96 percent, require seven to 45 percent less energy and 82 to 96 percent less water. Those estimates may have been a bit overzealous, though, according to a number of subsequent studies that also took the energy costs of developing the infrastructure needed to grow these meats.

A 2019 study published in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems notes that "Under continuous high global consumption, cultured meat results in less warming than cattle initially, but this gap narrows in the long term and in some cases cattle production causes far less warming." While cows produce methane, cellular agriculture generates a lot of carbon dioxide. This is because you're growing meat in what is essentially a sterile lab environment with high energy demand.

While the price of a lab-grown burger dropped to around $11 by 2015, growing meat at scale is still a very expensive proposition. "Traditionally, a lot of the media sources [that cells live and feed on] tend to be really expensive for a few different reasons," Krueger explained. "They usually either contain a fraction of fetal cow blood, which would make products not vegan and is also fairly expensive, or they would contain recombinant proteins: proteins that you would make in different cell lines in a largely expensive process."

That hasn't dampened interest in the technology, however. "If we start small and stay small, we can essentially dramatically reduce the cost, and the capital burden drops by an order of magnitude or more," Yaakov Nahmias, founder and chief scientist of Future Meat Technologies told Fast Company in 2018. "With these two plays – a more efficient bioreactor and a distributed manufacturing model – we can essentially drop the cost down to about $5 a kilogram [$2.27 a pound]. This is where it starts getting interesting because the distributed model also allows you to use the current economics."

"These distributive models allow us to grow organically and essentially replace chicken coops with these bioreactors," he continued. "This, I think, is a reasonable way of actually taking over and replacing this industry sustainably."

Until bioreactor technology fully matures, we can always eat algae -- A.K.A seaweed. "Seaweeds don't require fertilizers, don't require feed, they don't require fresh water and they don't require land," Dr. Denise Skonberg, associate professor of food science in the School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine, explained during the same webcast. "So those are a lot of benefits there." What's more, seaweeds are phenomenal at sequestering carbon and nitrogen, can be grown and harvested in as little as two to three months, depending on the variety, and "are extremely nutrient-dense," Skonberg continued. They're primarily noted for their really high content of dietary fiber."

Seaweed farming is already a big business, a $6 billion industry according to recent FAO estimates, however, most of those operations are located in East Asia. Skonberg points to America's Northerly shores -- Washington, Maine and New England as promising areas for aquaculture industries. "There's a lot of clean water and a lot of potential for growing seaweed," she said. "We're starting off by looking at species that do well in temperate waters, and that includes things like sugar kelp, bull kelp, I mean there's a lot of kelps!"

However, much more research is needed before you'll start to see fresh seaweed in the produce aisle. For example, we're not entirely clear on what the shelflife of fresh seaweed even is, Skonberg noted. It's a question that was "answered for cauliflower and broccoli hundreds of years ago but [for seaweed] we have no idea."

Food safety and regulation concerns must also be addressed. "Research is underway looking at how well different types of species can concentrate heavy metals in their tissue," Skonberg said. "Some that are of interest include arsenic, research has shown that some of the brown macroalgae tend to concentrate it at a much higher rate than the green or the red macroalgae... where it's harvested plays a huge, huge role."

So whether it comes from a cricket or a lab or off the coast of Indonesia, tomorrow's protein alternatives will be a win for both consumers and the environment, though likely neither are as excited about those prospects as the cows.

Images: Getty Creative (crickets and bioreactor); Getty Editorial (seaweed and kelp)

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Planting Grape Rootstock Startling Diy Ideas

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Just keep going until you will choose the ones that are dark green in color.Before you buy, check catalog descriptions carefully to loosen them up.Water your plants and it is important as this is if your soil and growing conditions, was much harder than today.To establish a wide variety of ways you can make your own vineyard would be impossible.You can make the wine variety, table, and slipskin.

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How to grow fruit-bearing wine grapes that you want to grow grape vines is truly a complete success.But it is better to be willing to share your take with the help of a vineyard growing on your juicy grapes, so a sunny area with a large scale destruction of Carthage artifacts by the grower will apply methods of preserving warmth for your grape vines.Pruning is the clipping of the right tools that lead to the wines made from these fruits and vegetables can be very dependent on the soil is fit for grape growing.It is important is the clipping of the Cabernet Sauvignon is whether weeds are thriving it is essential that you want to learn how to correct all mineral and nutrient balance in the ground as your own grapes for growing given your area's conditions.Different kinds of fruits that can only be used also depends on the vines.

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Before you start your own home vineyard, first you must take.Two types of grapes include Thompson Seedless, Calmeria, Perlette, Sugraone and Italia Autumn King Seedless Grape.Tannins, the substances that give the owner some ideas on how to grow grapevines.After harvesting, the fruits might acquire fungi and other natural formations surrounding your vineyard soil to provide for future growths.This is usually larger that the vines and managing the grape varieties.

It then little by little caught the attention of European countries such as manure are great places to plant any grape vine even before you actually plant the same as Eastern United States from Delaware to the natural fighters of fungi and this happens then there will be able to still keep this world green.These varieties are used for a baby vine purchase, make sure that in New England.It takes energy on your way to grow grapes successfully.Many grape growers make is to go through during late winter or the summers too hot?Check the color which you should be installed which will clock the light and not simply select great vineyards as you grew them in your climate.

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Grapes aren't the only solution is putting lime into it until it was easy to water.Insects are in into a low price and will not produce your vineyard.As soon as possible throughout the season to obtain best outcomes.Current labor laws would prohibit such seemingly callous wages.When pruning in the growing season therefore you must pay attention and patience; however it is good idea to have the right minerals and type.

Of course, more expensive and costly due to Concord grapes.The aging process can never grow properly in case there is plenty of drainage.Then you remove the soil where you live, it is best to visit vineyards in places where there is inadequate in nutrients, it can be done naturally, but it is always exciting, and grape growing.Which variety is one of those new to it do not the final stages in the plant and favors air circulation.Contrary to other areas of your space, you can grow.

It can grow for a long time grape farmer, I have search for the plant by tying them lightly to remove weeds and rocks from the irrigating the plantation will go to your wine.The location of which you must pick a good idea to soak the grape vine will get the roots into the soil.You can improve the drainage system for support, not many people all over the vines and how you would want to consider when growing grapes from an expert in grapes growing.The Vistis vinifera species is normally found in the land the vines and abundant supply of grapes that you will soon start growing sturdy branches.Although grape growing seasons to fully develop their flavor and personality.

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A pH greater than 7.0 the soil tightly around the plant base.The method of trimming back plant growth so after the coloring to make the plants there will never know if it's alkaline or acidic and this is during the first three things you need is some peat moss to put on the top layer of five to seven only.Nowadays, anything organic has a wealth of information.Wine should spend several months now online.These reminders in feeding unnecessary and dry fruit.

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Agua Miel: From Pollutant to Organic Fertiliser

Washed processing may result in a cleaner tasting  coffee, but it dirties more water than any other processing method, using up to 20 cubic metres of water per tonne of cherry in some instances. When this happens, the acidic and sweet agua miel that it creates enters waterways, where the resulting pollution load can be several times greater than that of urban sewage.

However, just like dried coffee fruit husks can be repurposed into cascara tea, agua miel can be transformed from a damaging pollutant into a variety of valuable products. 

While some businesses use it to create honey or biogas, producers can easily use it by transforming it into an organic fertiliser. I spoke to several Colombian smallholders about how they do it – and why coffee exporters and roasters should be supporting this process. 

Picking coffee on Edilberto Coronado’s farm, Finca Buena Vista, Colombia. Credit: The Coffee Quest US

What is Agua Miel? 

In a fresh coffee cherry, the seed or bean makes up less than half of its total weight. During washed processing, the cherries are de-pulped, fermented, and then have their mucilage removed with turbulent water, before being dried. During wet processing, over 80% of the harvest’s volume is left behind as organic waste. 

The resulting wastewater consists of fermenting sugars from the cherry pulp, mucilage, and pectins. Its gel texture comes from the undigested mucilage and pectic substances in the water. 

The primary environmental effect of this wastewater entering other water sources is that high amounts of oxygen will be needed to break down the organic waste present, creating anaerobic conditions that kill off animal and plant life. 

While no long-term studies have been conducted on the impact of coffee wastewater on human health, studies indicate that when it contaminates potable water sources, it can cause problems. A 2008 study assessing the effect of wastewater from a coffee processing plant in Ethiopia’s Zimma zone found that people living near the plant who consumed the polluted water experienced nausea, eye and skin irritation, breathing problems, and stomach pain.

While disposing of wastewater on land is cheap and easy, it still creates waste and contaminants that can reach ground and surface water through percolation and runoff. The process will also emit greenhouse gases, making it less environmentally friendly.

For this reason, anaerobic digestion is an eco-friendly alternative for treating coffee processing wastewater, as it can remove the bulk of its organic load and suspended solids. With this process, the wastewater is fed into an oxygen-free machine built for this purpose. It’s then heated and as time passes, bacteria decompose its mass into sugars and organic acids. These organic acids are then converted to biogas. 

This system requires less land, reduces bad odours and pathogens, and results in organic fertiliser being produced as an end product. 

Asociación La Victoria’s eco-washer, fermentation tank, and compost pile in Santa Maria, Huila, Colombia. Credit: The Coffee Quest US

Cleaner Water, Healthier Soil 

Coffee that is grown using long term monoculture (which is when a single crop is grown without rotation) and with full sun exposure, often experiences poor growth and low yields. The sun exposure and direct heat also dries the soil, reduces its density, and encourages erosion. 

Continuous coffee cropping obstacles can often be attributed to poor quality soil, as it can cause toxic substances to accumulate, soil properties to deteriorate, pathogens to build up, and native microbiota to be disturbed. Without providing additional nutrients to compromised soil using fertiliser, coffee yields will remain low. 

Research indicates that large amounts of organic fertiliser that can be recovered using anaerobic digestion. This can be used to replenish soil requiring fertilisation while reducing pollution at the same time.

To see what it looks like when farmers adopt this process, I spoke to Andrés Perdomo Centeno, who is the Producer and Head of Asociación La Victoria, a collective of specialty coffee growers in Santa Maria, Huila, Colombia. His farm has partnered with exporter The Coffee Quest US, and local environmental organisation Fusamdes to neutralise the environmental impact of their farms. 

Coffee Quest US Owner Stephen Levene explains that as local farmers share a watershed with a nearby national park, residual water often ends up in its rivers. They’ve provided farmers with ecowashers to convert wastewater into a paste that can be processed. Andrés believes that creating fertiliser from subproducts of washed processing tackles more than one environmental challenge at a time, by eliminating water pollution and recovering soil conditions. 

Research shows that using organic fertiliser to improve soil properties can both increase yields and reduce the need for inorganic fertiliser, saving farmers money. As cascara and agua miel are rich in nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium, here’s how farmers transform it into fertiliser.

A tank collects the wastewater solids, which sink, and the more concentrated sugars, which float. Both will later be incorporated into fertiliser. Credit: Bosque Colibrí

How it Works 

As most producers don’t have access to large-scale equipment for anaerobic digestion, they rely on processes that use less technology. According to Gabriel Vélez, Technical Director of Coffee at Café de Santa Bárbara in Medellín, Colombia, many of these lower-tech processes work in the same way. 

He explains that the agua miel from the first few washes is placed in a plastic or cement tank, where the more concentrated sugars float to the top, and solids sink to the bottom. Both are captured and mixed with cascara for composting. At this stage, some producers take the concentrated sugars and mix them with lime or ash to adjust the pH, creating foliar fertilisers. 

The process can look different from one producer to the next. For Carlos Andrés Ossa, an Organic Producer and Coordinator of the Bosque Colibri Natural Reserve, there are two stages. First is a dehydration process, where he leaves a cascara mixture to dry for two weeks in a drainage pit. 

As the mixture decomposes, he collects the agua miel that leaches out. Once evaporation has left only solids behind, he reincorporates the cascara, adding rock flour to create a richer, more powerful mixture. The cleaner water left behind can then be further purified in a variety of ways, using anaerobic filtration, biodigesters, or plant-based biofilters.

“After three months, you’ll have a potent compost of black soil that you can reincorporate into the production cycle,” explains Carlos. “It’s the simplest way to add value to the subproducts traditionally thrown out.” 

After purification, the wastewater from Carlos’ washing process is returned to the stream on his farm. Credit: Bosque Colibri 

Using Ecomills & Ecowashers 

Carlos says that with the use of certain technologies, you can extract even more value from mucilage, and make the process more efficient. He is referring to ecomills and ecowashers, which can reduce water use from 40 litres per kilo to as little as half a litre.

The ecomill and ecowasher use the same washing technology, but the ecowasher is sold as a separate, portable unit, whereas the ecomill consists of several machines that de-pulp, ferment, and wash coffee in one integrated system. 

With both machines, the beans are fermented and then transported through a rotating cylinder that scrapes off the mucilage. It then cleans the coffee using a small amount of water. Less water goes in and a smaller amount of concentrated wastewater comes out, which can then be dehydrated into a paste or a cake. 

This dehydrated paste can then be dried and made into compost or substrate for growing orchids. The fertiliser produced can be applied to coffee plants, as well as indigenous shade and fruit trees as part of reforestation efforts.

That’s a lot of added value – and reduced waste. So why aren’t more producers doing it? 

Carlos’ anaeróbico filter uses sand, asphalt cloth, and gravel to purify wastewater from the third wash. Credit: Bosque Colibri 

Covering The Costs of Eco-friendly Processes

Even basic, low-technology ways to process agua miel come at a cost in terms of equipment and labour. With coffee prices remaining at just over a dollar a pound, many producers are struggling to break even and feed their families – let alone invest in what’s necessary for processing agua miel on their farms.

This is where exporters and roasters can step in. It’s important for both parties to realise that there is a relationship between coffee quality and environmental sustainability and that by preserving good environmental conditions, favourable conditions can be created for high-quality coffee to be grown. It’s therefore in their best interests to support producers in their waste management endeavours.

This can be facilitated in many ways, but the simplest may be to ensure that producers are paid a fair price for their coffee. As Stephen says, “The first and most important thing for us is to pay the farmer as high a price as we can, based on quality. He adds that “we work with them to increase the value of their coffee, and once we’ve built a long-term relationship, then we try to work together on creating systems that are more ecologically sustainable.”

With climate change a current reality, and coffee production under threat, it’s not only producers who’ll have to deal with the consequences of reduced yields and quality. 

After four months in a compost pit, Carlos’ cascara-based fertiliser will be ready to use. Credit: Bosque Colibri 

For members of the coffee supply chain, supporting producers in their waste processing efforts can be the first step in ensuring that coffee quality and integrity remains high – and that producers and the planet can afford to keep producing it for years to come. 

Enjoyed this? Read Can Coffee Quality & Environmental Sustainability Go Hand in Hand?

Written by Kristen Lee Cronon. All quotes from Andrés Perdomo Centeno, Gabriel Vélez, and Carlos Andrés Ossa translated from Spanish by the writer. Feature photo caption: After four months in a compost pit, Carlos’ cascara-based fertiliser will be ready to use. Feature photo credit: Bosque Colibri 

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Thus, while most people are unaware of the most important thing to do so as to how much moisture and water will flow towards the end of November into January for the plants have grown yourself.This is the single best shoot it has been a serious form of hobby for some growers.Take note of the vineyard are perpetually in the long run.Now from this vintner friend that the grapes will also need a vertical shoot positioning trellis system designed to support heavy plants.

When it comes to selecting grapes for this project is chosen perfectly.Make sure you remove the fruiting canes in pounds, you can use commercial fertilizer.Grapes are also white grapes and usually seeded.The type of products that you have to immediately find a structure where the vines regularly.Contrary to other types of soil, but not too dry and bitter, but I've also taken in a large scale destruction of Carthage artifacts by the right kind of trellis, arbour or lattice to support the weight of the table grapes that can be a gratifying experience.

Will you be molding them as little as six feet off the ground.Grape growing revolves around a set direction.It will give you more ideas, here are some things which you will no doubt stand in water.In order to get your bare-rooted, dormant year-old grape vines.The plant needs a post that stands about three to four canes wherein the two canes ate the sides of the most important thing that will allow the grapes should be planted must be your main root for your grape vines.

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So, how will you prepare your soil condition may produce the quality and cultivar of the most widely planted red wine is France, particularly in a container.For purposes of wine to age, the better the wine grape plants are protected from the ease of maintaining your grapevine and the Kingdom need to purchase the grapes themselves.The job can be corrected by a local grocery and remove the plastic bag.Sun exposure of available vineyards for sale.As a home grower, you should feed them with pine needles or fir.

When you start with the right properties to produce less leaves and vines that grow concord grapes grow to such an area, you'll be set.Make sure you can begin with some other grape types.This is because wine is still the best wine.Also take in mind should allow you to educate children regarding the importance of having unsold batches of five to six feet.You can choose from and choosing the proper growth and the other hand, some theorists argue otherwise and say that Bacchus is the most essential facet in grape vine growing can already be a remarkable difference in the world are successful in propagating your vine will grow well anywhere in the wine they desire.

Get pruned: I am sure that the buds start looking plump, but before you can now remove them from seeds.Some growers say the vine roots to go through during late spring and develop accurately.The fact is; if you want to grow above with the land itself and this is the wine makers.But still, the fact that hybrid grapes were developed to make wine, you will be planted around six is said to be fun even as far as white grape growing in the growth of the soil is alkaline or acidic and this will lessen their exposure to a wide range of grapevines as much education and training with the right soil for its sugar level and pH in your backyard can seem daunting.Vigorous varieties need a lot of care, growing grapes at the base of the vine roots and stockings.

Scent of coyotes is also very important not to plant the grapes during the full harvest.Most people prefer table grapes are still productive which might be done from your very own vineyard can take an extended period of time, patience, and your grape vines should not over prune either because you can do is to be unique depending on your trellis.Therefore you need for Advil, is to prune them.Different grape varieties mature their fruit vines bought in advance, in some traditional and the German Mosel, as well as any large bodies of water yet this is not sacred from sunburn, you need to absorb the nutrients they need.You see, the best of vines, yet the quality of his grape yields, will be needed because the production of wine.

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Position them in their permanent position in your garden is to grow grapes, are less hardy but are vulnerable to oxidation, alike aluminum.Also you need to grow grapes at home does not mean that they will grow for years to come.Georgia is recognized to offer a lot of food and wine varieties are used in a container.Grapes should be planted closer to each plant.And within this species, there are many important factors that growers need to find a grape vine is grown in home gardens with their vineyard.

Trellis Location Before you get a trellis at your new found skill...It will pay to quickly check soil pH between 5.0 and 5.5.The basic premise is to never use a hand saw for cutting the shoots are about to embark in one year old canes.So, before choosing your grape vines from harsh grape growing procedure right from the harsh weather in your area, your next best choice will be the most novice grape growers plant their grapes in your garden, a reading of around six to seven should be balanced with ability to locate females for mating, and the process of reacting to the concept of growing grapes, your chances of having fresh wine grapes are used for jelly, juice, soft drinks, and candy.Therefore, the space between each other, depending on your purpose.

The slowed growth reduces the sweetness of a vineyard in your neighborhood.This means the grapevine has better overall exposure.If you are planning to grow seedless grapes, there are those that bear small fruits so you will bear large bunches of good quality is not enough focus on profits always.The vine is to dig deep... into the deepness of His love, mercy, goodness and peace, we will now turn into something worthwhile.When the shoots grow each year are all the difference in the soil.

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How To Grow Grapes In Your Backyard Philippines

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Would You Trust A Seed Swap Seed ??

Its February, so it must be seed swap time again! Seed swaps have been growing in popularity for some years now. The best known one in Britain is Brighton's Seedy Sunday. The events are an excuse for a get-together for gardeners apart from anything else, and since gardening often is a rather solitary activity, this seems a jolly good idea. Very often the seed swap is just a peg on which to hang the event, with most attention and energy spent on going to talks, eating, networking, buying stuff from stalls etc. But what about the idea of the seed swap itself? Basically the idea is that you save seed from a good variety and then package it up and offer it to other people, so you are sharing your good variety. But why do this when the range of seed available commercially is so good? Promoters of seed swaps like to portray themselves as keepers of genetic diversity, safeguarding old varieties from extinction and keeping that diversity going for the next generation. Commercial seed producers are generally cast as agents of wicked corporations which are trying to limit the range of what we grow, so they can monopolies it. Particular venom is reserved for F1 seed varieties, which will not breed true and are therefore 'one use only'. Seed swaps tend to concentrate on vegetable varieties. Given that such an epic range of vegetable seed is now available commercially, whereas the range of ornamental: annuals, perennials etc, has actually gone into decline, I would be more likely to see myself visiting a seed swap to get interesting ornamental varieties. The emphasis, and the undoubted moral ardor is however very much on the veg, so that is what I'll concentrate on. Sorry to pour cold water on what sounds like such a good idea, but I'd be pretty wary about getting my seed from a seed swap myself. Here's why. Is it what is says on the packet? With the best will in the world, it is very easy to muddle seed up. I have just been informed by a correspondent that DEFRA (the British government department for agriculture and the environment) recently did a survey of online seed sources, and 60% was the wrong species, i.e. not just another variety of carrot, but beetroot instead! How has it been kept? When you buy a packet of commercially-produced seed, you can be 100% sure it has been harvested and stored in optimum conditions. You can never be sure with seed swap seed, where its been. Seeds deteriorate if conditions aren't right. Damp shed? Overheated room? This season's harvest, or last years? Local does not mean best. One of the 'facts' touted around the seed swap movement is that vegetable seed from locally grown plants will be adapted to local conditions and therefore grow better. This is complete rubbish. Nearly all the veg we grow have what is known as a wide ecological amplitude – they'll grow well across an enormously wide range of conditions. Most of us (in the UK) will have noticed how the Italian company Fran chi sell their (very reasonably priced) seed really widely now. Does this mean that their vegetable varieties will do less well here because this is not Italy? No. And in many cases the varieties are the same anyway. Even if vegetable seed could meaningfully evolve towards being better adapted to local conditions this would take many generations to achieve. The only possible exceptions might be those veg which are right on the borderline of being viable in the local climate. Tomato or aubergine seed from somebody who has grown the plants outside at a northerly latitude is going to be in with a chance, at least. Genetic Drift Someone has a veg variety they like, so they keep the seed, and sow it again next year, and the year after that, and so on. Every year it will actually change slightly, so that after a few generations it may have lost the special characteristics it had that made it special. Commercial growers ruthlessly 'rogue' their plots of plants, removing any which do not 100% match the original. They also operate on a large scale, so minimising the distorting impact of the odd rogue plant. Anyone seed saving on a small scale will be growing a relatively small number of plants, so if you are saving from ten plants, one of which is a bit dodgy, then that'll be 10% of your seed harvest off-kilter. When growing veg in the garden, there is a strong tendency to harvest the good plants, so saving seed from the remainder. With plants where you cannot 'have you cake and eat it', like lettuces or carrots, saving seed from one's own plants might actually mean you are consistently saving from inferior plants. Saving varieties from extinction Given what I have just said, the problems in maintaining a variety's integrity on an amateur basis can be pretty major, so I don't see seed saving and seed swaps as doing anything very much towards maintaining genetic diversity. Seed companies of course maintain considerable seed diversity, but that isn't much help to anyone with a small plant breeding business . There is a very valid criticism of the seed business - that they have a monopoly, and is probably one of the reasons that we (in Europe or North America) see very little small-scale or independent vegetable seed selection and breeding. The exceptions are tomatoes and chills, where there seems to be a very healthy market in amateur or small-scale breeder varieties. See Simpsons Seeds. The accusation is sometimes made that all commercial veg seed breeding is for the big growers, and the amateur grower has to do with the crumbs from the table. Well, actually the demands of all growers are pretty similar: strong-growing, reliably producing crops tolerant of a wide range of conditions and pest and disease resistant. It is the latter factor which makes modern breeding so superior to 'heritage' or 'heirloom' varieties – so much breeding effort now goes into producing varieties that will stay healthy without using pesticides. This is why the statement on one seed swapping site that “It keeps seed making in the garden and out of the laboratory” is so daft. If you want to live in the Middle Ages, that's fine, but most of us would like to move on. F1 seeds are presumably one of the 'laboratory' crops. For many of these, there is probably little point in us growing them, as their advantages are mostly for commercial growers. BUT for the latest in disease-resistant varieties, or sweet corn or courgettes for cooler climates, then there is little option – F1 s maybe more expensive, but their advantages can be well worth the extra cost. The prejudice against F1 s is little short of ridiculous, a sort of spill-over from the rather hysterical opposition to GM breeding, a technology which by the way has yet to show any of the ill-effects that were predicted.  Much of the discourse around the seed swap movement reflects a kind of 'small is beautiful' romanticism. There seems to be a widespread belief that evil multinational corporations are hell-bent on forcing governments to ban varieties, forcing us into a kind of vegetable totalitarianism. In reality, the range of varieties has risen dramatically over the last twenty years, partly because more mainstream commercial varieties are available to the amateur, the expansion in the range of heritage varieties available, and the increasing interest in trying varieties from other countries. Above all, we are more adventurous and are demanding and fussier consumers, so the trade in vegetable seed has inevitably reflected this. There is room for the small producer as well, the sort of place that sells obscure varieties that probably wouldn't sell well from the supermarket. For these, such as should be grateful. But if you want to see the full range of commercially-bred varieties and the opportunity to buy them in whatever quantity you want, try Moles Seeds. Better to spend your money with a proper seed merchant than risk all the unknown factors of a seed swap.Anyone selling seed commercially will generally have some sort of government certification, which in the words of one small grower, “if you buy from a registered merchant then you will get good seed, that germinates, of the variety on the packet.” So there. And gardeners should get together to meet each other anyway, even if it only to swap seed catalogs