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Other Specialty Crops

Resources covering specialty crops that do not fall under animals/insects, fruits, or vegetables. These materials highlight alternative production opportunities for small farms.

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Capers

Small Farm Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Revised July 1989 By Demetrios C. Kontaxis, Ph.D.
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Herbs

January 1995 USDA Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture The term "herbs" has many meanings. The most accepted one is "plants that are not used solely as vegetables or ornaments.
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Foliage Plants

Published December 1987 United States of Department of AgricultureCooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Foliage plants come in all shapes-rounded, spread, upright, cascading or weeping, oval and rounded.
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Specialty Flowers

Published June 1990 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Flowers provide an allure that has been used by man to transcend the seasons and evoke emotion.
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Wildflowers

Published December 1987 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture The wildflower business may bloom as never before in coming years.
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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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