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WWOOF is also referred to as World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, a name that developed to avoid confusion in immigration offices as to whether wwoofers were migrant workers or tourists on holiday.
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The compacted soil holds the moisture in and the loose, dry soil prevents a hard crust from forming on top. Some call the powdery cover a “dust mulch.”
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The Buff Chanticleer was another example of my knack for beating the sex-ratio odds: out of three “straight run” chicks I picked up from a local chicken fancier—which should have had about a 50:50 male-female ratio—I got all roosters.
Copyright © 2011 by Lynda Hopkins
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hopkins, Lynda.
The wisdom of the radish and other lessons learned on a small farm / Lynda Hopkins. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN : 978-1-570-61774-4
1. Farm life—California—Healdsburg. 2. Country life—California—
Healdsburg. I. Title.
S521.5.C2H67 2011
630.9794—dc22
2010047955
 
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