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What can you grow in January? Plenty! Here's 7 vegetable gardening ideas (vegetable herbs) for seedlings you can start right now!
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What Can You Grow In January? Get Crackin’!

All right, y’all. We made it past the holidays, and now we’re into big gardening time. So, you’re probably wondering, “What can you grow in January?” January is kind of a dull month. All the major holidays are over, we’ve all got sticker shock at how much we spent in the past couple months, and…

Up close of sunflower microgreens with all white background
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Microgreens for Chickens! Grow Microgreens As A Healthy Treat!

Microgreens for chickens? You bet! They are easy peasy to grow and packed full of nutrients. Learn the scoop on microgreens here! Sunflower microgreens are a delicious addition to your recipe collection, and they’re so easy to grow in your kitchen. You can grow them for yourself (because they are full of nutrition for humans…

Senior woman holding box with vegetables
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Gardening Zones

Maat van UitertMaat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category.  Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her…

20 Vegetables That Grow in Shade
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20 Vegetables That Grow in Shade

Wondering what vegetables grow in the shade? No matter where you might live, it can be tough to find the optimal conditions for growing vegetables. From shade produced by nearby buildings to hefty tree limbs that block out the afternoon sun, finding a garden plot with the perfect amount of sunlight your plants need can…