USU Small Farms Lab
USU Small Farms Lab

Fact Sheets

for better micro-farms & gardens

Helpful fact sheets

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Cut Flowers

Cut Flower + Foliage Production

Anemone
Basket Flower
Bells
Celosia
Cosmos
Dahlia
Delphinium
Dusty Miller
Echinacea
Gomphrena
Lisianthus
Mini Carnation
Larkspur
Peony
Ranunculus
Snapdragon
Statice
Stock
Strawflower
Sunflower
sweet pea
Zinnia

economics

The Consumers
CSA success
Florist survey
Industry overview
Market options
Budget: Anemone - Field
Budget: Anemone - Tunnel
Budget: Peony - field
Budget: Peony - Tunnel
Budget: Ranunc - Field
Budget: Ranunc - tunnel
Budget: Snaps - field
Budget: Snaps - tunnel

Pests + Disease

Dahlia Mosaic Virus
DMV Tests at USU
Pest management

Tools + Techniques

Shade use
Shade Design
plastic mulch
No-Motor Tools
Raised beds
Bee benefits
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Farm & Garden

Soil + Water

Compost&Manure
Cover Crops
DIY Irrigation
Feel soil moisture
Fertilizer Rates
SOIL TESTING
improving soils
Heavy metal Contamination
PAH Contamination
soil Report INFO

High + Low Tunnels

Cut flower low tunnels
Low Tunnel Design
Cost Calculator
Vented Low Tunnels
High Tunnel Design
Pests & Disease
Temperature
tunnel location
Irrigation
Supplement Heat
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Small Livestock

Keeping Urban Chickens

Getting Started
Housing
Handling Chicks
Feeding
Biosecurity & safety
Disease Control
 

Keeping Urban Rabbits

getting started: overview
healthy nutrition guide
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Fruit + Veggies

Visit USU Production Hort for ALL crops

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Videos

Visit our YouTube Channel for how-to videos

guiding future research

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