UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program

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Exotic Fruits: A Small-Scale Agriculture Alternative

Published January 1989 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Certain potentially high-demand tropical or other exotic fruits growing in Florida or California also have varieties that will bear fruit farther north.
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Woodlots

March 1990 USDA Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture At least 6 million people own woodlot parcels averaging 40 to 50 acres in size that make up 33 percent of the Nation's 348 million acres of private timberland.
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Appendix

Using Micronutrients Vegetable Response To Micronutrients Micronutrients - Soil Micronutrients - Foliar Applied Soil Tests Conversion Tables Back To The Top Micronutrient deficiencies have not been commonly reported in California.
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Developing Your Marketing Plan

September/October 1994 David T. Handley, Vegetable and Small Fruit Specialist, University of Maine. Reprinted with permission from the May/June 1994 issue of Maine Farms & Forests.
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Director's Column

The National Small Farms Commission will hold what is possibly its last working session in Washington, D.C. in mid-December. Commission members hope to have a report in USDA Secretary Dan Glickman's hands by the end of January.
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Emergence of the Herb Industry

By Desmond Jolly, agricultural economist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis A 30-day supply of Your Life antioxidants currently sells for $12.29. At the same Long's drug store in Davis, California, a 50-count softgel packet of Saw Palmetto was priced at $11.
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News Notes

An organization called Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF) offers a list of organic farms around the world that provide room and board to volunteers who work three to six hours a day at unskilled tasks.
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