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Invasive Species

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This farm is some place special and I intend to manage it so that it maintains what’s breathtakingly beautiful and productive and enhances what needs to be enhanced. The maintenance of it includes management of invasive species. Invasives come as insects and trees. They come as grasses and wildlife. They come in all shapes and sizes from many locations foreign and domestic. And, even some natives can act like invasives. Managing invasives on the farm versus managing them in your yard is just a matter of scale. Here’s what I had to say about it in Beginning Farmer Magazine. Read more here.

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