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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
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
 
 
 
 
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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