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Crop Rotation Basics Page 3

Page 2: Crop rotation with cover crops -- an overview

How to zap pests, build soil with cover crops in strategic crop rotations Here's a little information to wet your appetite for the many profiles we'll be featuring of farmers around the world who are effectively using cover crops and crop rotations to beat weeds, confuse bugs and keep disease at bay.

A do-it-yourself guide to building a home-scale vermicompost system

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