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| Chickens at the farm lay eggs and eat bugs and pests. Their droppings also help fertilize the soil! |
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| Two happy volunteers |
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| Straw is used to cover some of the growing beds during the winter, over the course of the season, and breaks down and gives it nutrients back to the soil! For part of our project we fluffed out LOTS of straw bails! |
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| Planting garlic without taking out the old tomato roots serves to leave the most valuable part of the soil available to the new garlic plants! |
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| One of our projects out at the farm was pulling crab grass out of the planting beds, the grass sucks up nutrients that would otherwise stay in the soil until new crops are planted. We used out hands and pitch-forks to weed in order to cause the least amount of disturbance to the soil. |
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