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Whether you dream of harvesting fruit from your own backyard, baking bread from scratch, or raising healthy livestock, our …

1/2/26- The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced important updates. Here’s what you need to know: Extended Batching …

Exciting news! The Homesteading: Backyard Basics Conference is back for 2026! Discover the skills, confidence, and community you need to …

When: February 22, 2024 Time: 9 a.m. to Noon Cost: $20 per person Where: Gaston Citizens Resource Center, 1303 Dallas-Cherryville Hwy, Dallas, …

Homesteading: Backyard Basics is back for 2025! Join us for a day of learning about homesteading and extend your …

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Heather Haley is passionate about irises and wanted to help preserve her mother’s lifetime collection when Heather moved and …

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Fall and Winter Agritourism Operators are facing tough questions on when and how to operate this season. N.C. Cooperative …
“On January 22, 2015, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will host a new webinar, “Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) 102 …

This publication is intended to help you manage diseases and pests of peaches. In choosing …

This article will cover two important scale insect pests of blueberries in North Carolina, terrapin …

Blueberry bud mites (Acalitus vaccinii) are tiny, microscopic mites in the family Eriophyidae that can …

This factsheet offers information on the biology and management of the spotted lanternfly, an invasive …

Though there are no hard survey numbers to demonstrate, anecdotally a majority of rented farmland …

Though impossible to measure the incidence of neighbor complaints against farmers, North Carolina public policy …
This publication explains plant growth regulators for a variety of crops.