.jpg) | Dear Friend,
Even in a small space, crop rotation is both helpful and possible. Pests. Disease. Depleted soil. You already know these aren’t good for your garden. You also probably know that crop rotation is supposed to help. Moving plants gives the soil time to replenish nutrients, confuses pests, and kills off diseases in the soil. That’s easy enough if you have acres and acres of crops. Most of us, however, don’t have acres and acres of crops.
One simple way for average gardeners to organize a crop rotation is to divide the garden into quarters and rotate your crops around a central point each year. If you don’t have an abundance of room, however, or if you have a disproportionate amount of a few vegetables as compared to others, you can still rotate crops. For example, if you have crops like corn that are heavy feeders, be sure to rotate them with nitrogen-fixing crops like peas or beans.
Of course, whether you rotate your crops or not, one way you can improve your soil and have a much healthier garden is by adding compost. That’s a sure way to add the microorganisms and organic matter to your garden.
An even better way is to take full advantage of EXTRA!, from The Old Farmer’s Almanac. EXTRA! is our monthly digital magazine that we send exclusively to you with your membership in the Old Farmer’s Almanac Club. Not only that, but you can read the entire library of EXTRA! issues – that’s more than five years of gardening tips, humor, recipes, tips for natural living, and fun facts.
Plus each issue includes timely astronomy information, weather forecasts, and astrology, so you know exactly when to look to the skies for a meteor shower, expect rain, or plan to go fishing. Here’s a brief glance at more of what you can enjoy. | | | | | Get Your Special Pass—Access to the World's Most Beloved Almanac! |
| | | | Your Chicken Is Smarter Than You Realize | In the animal kingdom, we don’t usually think of chickens as the brightest creatures. Dolphins, dogs, and even crows are lauded for their intelligence. Chickens, though? It turns out, you can train your chicken to come when you call it. In many cases, you can train a chicken even faster than you can train a dog. All you need is a hungry chicken and a supply of chicken feed.
It doesn’t take long, either. Just two or three days of short training sessions and your fine feathered friend will come clucking right over whenever you call. You can get all the details in the November 2020 edition of EXTRA!, with one exception - you’re on your own for naming the chicken. | .jpg) | | The Delightful And Delicious Dandelion | Way back in April 2016 we published a story about the weed everyone loves to hate: the dandelion. The thing is, cultures around the world use every part of the dandelion as both nutritious food and powerful medicine. And believe it or not, they’re good for your garden in small doses. The bright yellow flowers attract pollinators in the spring and provide an important early nectar source for butterflies.
On the dinner table, young dandelion greens are great with a salad. You can also cook them with chopped onions and garlic, or add dandelions to a spring tonic soup with young nettles, parsley, spinach, kale, and chard.
There is, however, a trick to harvesting these culinary and agricultural delights. For that, you’ll have to read EXTRA! You’ll get all the details, plus access to some exciting recipes, like Fried Dandelion Blossoms, Dandelion Syrup, and Pink Dandelion Wine.
All of this is yours right away with your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership! Along with 60+ issues (and growing) of EXTRA! digital magazines, you get the latest Classic Paperback Edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, a dramatic, full-color 2022 Weather Wall Calendar, a printed version of The Old Farmer’s Almanac from 1822, as well as a copy of the 1922 Almanac. Plus, a BONUS 2022 Country Calendar! | | | | | Get Your Special Pass—Access to the World's Most Beloved Almanac! |
| | | With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership, you get all the wit, wisdom, gardening tips, recipes, weather, folklore, and fun you expect from North America’s oldest and most popular farmers’ almanac!
This is all just a few clicks away. With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership, you can enjoy the entire library of EXTRA! where you’ll learn more about:
- The mythological creatures and supernatural beings that early astronomers were documenting at least 7,000 years ago
- The invention of the first terrarium in the 1800s and how you can make your own
- Winter stress remedies
- Tasty ways to get more vegetables on your plate
- Easy-to-grow early season vegetables
- The centuries-long evolution of the barn
The complete library of our monthly digital magazine, EXTRA!, is ready and waiting for you. That’s over 60 issues, with new issues added every month. Don’t miss out! | | | | | Get Your Special Pass—Access to the World's Most Beloved Almanac! |
| | | | NEW FOR 2022! | | Get full access to everything under the Sun, including the Moon, weather, vegetable and flower gardening, folklore, nature, home remedies, and more—with your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership! | This exciting club is designed especially for you—and it’s packed with articles, advice, best days, and fun facts!
Your Charter Membership gives you all the elements of a true almanac—a “calendar of the heavens” and a “time capsule of the year” for 2022, plus some fantastic bonuses when you join today. More about those bonuses in a minute.
Since 1792—in fact, every day since!—The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been trusted and enjoyed by folks from all walks of life: People who grow their own food depend on the planting dates; home cooks, gardeners, and folks hungry for something quick and delicious love the recipes; just about everybody checks on the Moon phases and sunrise and set times … as well as the weather forecasts … to know what to expect on any given day, week, month, or season.
With your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership, you’ll have content that is both useful and humorous. You’ll discover quirky facts, timeless adages and advice, amusing quotes and profound proverbs, contests, anecdotes and pleasantries, best days to do things (from fishing to weaning from planting to setting eggs, for example), and so much more! | | NEW FOR 2022!
Now accepting pre-sale orders!
Get 49% off Charter Membership in the Old Farmer's Almanac Club! | | | Save 49% when you claim your Old Farmer's Almanac Club Charter Membership—become a Charter Member today! | | | | People always ask how and why our Almanac has lasted—and continues to be a best seller. The answer is simple: We stay true to the original mission of founder Robert B. Thomas, who declared in an early edition, “Our main endeavour is to be useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.”
We believe that, especially in today’s trying times, finding humor and enjoyment in daily life can be uplifting, and we hope you like our light-hearted fun and find the joy in chuckling at our witty words.
This will make you smile, too: Every edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac is fresh, new, and designed to make the new year one of the best ever. How do we do that? With entertaining and informative articles. With your Charter Membership, you’ll be able to read about:
- Hot trends for 2022: Forecasts, facts, and fascinating ideas that define our life and times, including the future of farming, a new farming buzzword to add to your vocabulary, tech tools for farmers, new veggie varieties to watch for, and more!
- Small-Space Gardening: Hang a planter, get a harvest.
- Going Natural: Some gardeners are walking on the rewilding side.
- Healthy Eating: More meat-free alternatives, restaurant-level food at home, and where to find a quick (and healthy!) bite on the road.
- Flavor Craving: Try familiar flavors in new, innovative ways.
- Pampered Pets: Pet-size Murphy beds, hands-free leashes, tastier pet food.
- And more—almost 300 pages of riveting content!
Plus, charts, maps, and photos bring it all to life for you—making every article and every table easy to understand and follow.
But that’s just the beginning! Here’s just some of what else you’ll discover in the 2022 Almanac: - Your Health Outlook: Food as medicine, adaptable sleepwear, faster healing.
- Remains to Be Seen: People have been preserving pets, wild animals—even other people—for millennia. Read about the ones still on display and where you can see them.
- The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth: History, superstitions, myths, facts, and some of the strangest toothache cures we’ve ever heard.
- Beyond the Pumpkin Patch: Check out the Heirloom Hall of Fame for inspiration to plant squash and pumpkins that are anything but ordinary.
- The Art and Science of Animal Tracking: Get closer to nature when you learn to read the signs our wild friends leave behind.
- Nature’s Signs Mean Fish on Lines: Whatever the season, there are telltale signs you can look for to find the perfect fishing spot.
- The Star-Spangled School Project: Meet the industrious student who designed our current American flag.
- Beyond the Boards: Get a look behind the scenes of the legendary Canada-Soviet hockey summit, and find out how boxing factored into the competition on ice.
- Fine-Tune Your Family Tree: 10 simple tips for digging down deep to reach all of your roots!
- What, the Hail?: Track the formation and destructive power of these balls of ice that can be as small as a BB or bigger than a softball.
- All this and too much more to mention for nearly 300 pages of riveting content!
| | NEW FOR 2022!
Now accepting pre-sale orders!
Get 49% off Charter Membership in the Old Farmer's Almanac Club! | | | Save 49% when you claim your Old Farmer's Almanac Club Charter Membership—become a Charter Member today! | | | | | An Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership will deliver exciting rewards for you—and for a special rate right now, to all new Charter Members. | When you join today, you’ll ensure that you get the latest details about Almanac events and forecasts—and you’ll enjoy all these benefits:
- Your best garden ever—Almanac gardening advice, planting dates, time-saving tips, and detailed guidance from experts will get you growing like never before.
- You’ll know in advance about every important astronomical event in 2022—when they’re happening, where in the sky, and the details and delights of each one.
- You’ll have access to the world’s best source of Almanac content—from astronomy and weather to anniversaries and milestone dates; from important (and little known) holidays and religious events to traditional days in calendar folklore.
- You’ll save time and money when you follow all the practical advice and tips that we deliver to you about everything from gardening to food preparation and cooking.
- You’ll be a weather expert in your family and circle of friends—no one else you know will have the detailed knowledge about forecasting and weather that you’ll have . . . and for every region of the country!
| | How can you not consider becoming an Old Farmer’s Almanac Charter Member? | | What you’ll get with an Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership. | When you claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership today, your Charter membership will include:
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac: 2022 Classic Paperback Edition—This version of the Almanac comes with a pre-drilled hole in the corner so you can hang it for easy access in your kitchen or potting shed. It’s packed with everything you’ve come to expect in the world’s premier Almanac.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac: 2022 Digital Edition—Everything you love about the Almanac, and then some. It’s portable and printable! Need to check the tides while you’re on the road? It's all just a click away!
- The Old Farmer's Almanac: Your Local Almanac—Get detailed information about where you live—specific sunrise/sunset times, moonrise/moonset times, and more from our calendar of the heavens.
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2022 Weather Wall Calendar—Enjoy stunning photography of spectacular weather around the world month after month.
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac 1822 Replica Digest—A printed version will be shipped to you with your order. Take a trip down memory lane and see what one of our early Almanacs looked like! It’s a time capsule of life 200 years ago!
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac 1922 Replica Digest—A printed version will be shipped to you with your order. Another classic Almanac, this takes you back a century: Compare the content then and now!
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac EXTRA!—A treasure trove of digital updates and Almanac content not found in the printed edition.
- BONUS: Complete access to our EXTRA! library, with 60+ digital issues at your fingertips any time!
- BONUS: The Old Farmer's Almanac 2022 Country Wall Calendar—If you love the country, you'll feel right at home with these stunning photographs from top photographers.
| And all of this is available to you—right now—when you claim your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership.
What are you waiting for? This Charter Membership offer is in effect for you right now!
No other Almanac has so many fun and fascinating facts, timely and accurate events and predictions, and topical and useful articles all in one place for your easy access and use—and covering more regions of North America than any other almanac or resource! | | | Save 49% when you claim your Old Farmer's Almanac Club Charter Membership—become a Charter Member today! | | | | | Why not join right now? | Gardeners, weather and sky watchers, and nature lovers everywhere have been enjoying The Old Farmer’s Almanac for generations, and now it’s easier than ever for YOU to experience it all with an Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership.
When we created this new club for folks like you, we wanted to make it easy to use, easy to order, and packed with content and value—that’s why we named it the “Old Farmer's Almanac Club”! The Almanac is the ultimate resource for gardening, astronomy, folklore, nature, and more, and now it can be all yours with your Old Farmer’s Almanac Club Charter Membership. | | | | Special Pre-Sale Offer is Now in Effect — 49% Discount!
When you respond today, you’ll be among a select group of Almanac friends to take advantage of this special Charter Membership offer.
Activate your Charter Membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Club today, and you’ll get access to unique Almanac content that you can’t find anywhere else!
Join other weather and astronomy watchers, gardeners, nature and food lovers, and trivia fans—for 49% off when you respond today!
This is a limited-time offer that you should take advantage of right now. | | | | New to this newsletter? It’s free! Sign up here.
You are receiving this e-mail message because you subscribed to The Almanac.
If you do not wish to receive our regular e-mail newsletter in the future,
please click here to manage preferences.
*Please do not reply to this e-mail*
To report corrections or inquire about your account, products, editorial, technical issues, Contact Us
© 2021 Yankee Publishing Inc. An Employee-Owned Company
1121 Main Street
P.O. Box 520
Dublin, NH 03444
View web version | | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment