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Using Buckwheat to Improve Your Garden

Buckwheat is a very fast growing grain. It has many different uses - you can harvest the grain, thresh it and then mill it. Turn it into some delicious buckwheat pancakes. Or feed it off to your livestock; poultry loves buckwheat. You can use it as a green manure in your garden beds, because it is great for aerating your soil. Buckwheat is a wonderful soil builder! And we need to build … [Read more...]


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