The Business of Organic Elderberry

Terry Durham of River Hills Farm is a walking encyclopedia for everything elderberry. He is also the driving force behind the cultivation of a brand-new elderberry market in the United States.

Brix Measurement Standards

Thus, the total advantage of high-quality alfalfa goes beyond that indicated by digestible nutrient content and is compounded by a potential for being consumed at higher levels, a faster rate of digestibility, and perhaps a more efficient conversion of digested energy to produce energy.

Weed Management Techniques

The simple truth is that nearly all weeds grow best in poor soil—unbalanced, tight, depleted, “dead” soil. And that is just what our modern agricultural methods have created over the last few decades.

Non-Toxic Control of Common Insects

There are dozens of kinds of insects that attack all parts of the corn plant—roots, stalk, leaves, and cob. As we have said, they are just part of nature’s clean-up crew, eating the sick plants.

Improving Your Own Open-pollinated Corn

After you have decided on the best variety (or varieties), begin improving that variety by a selection process. There are several ways to improve varieties. The simplest is called mass selection. You just walk through the field (or hunt through the corn crib) and pick out the best looking plants or ears (don’t use cobs from the outside dozen or so rows), collect them (take both ears of two-eared plants) and shell them, mix the kernels all together, and plant that seed next year.

Fruit and Vegetable Data