Cultivation: Quick Facts

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An older man in a blue shirt and gloves uses a garden hoe to weed between rows of potato plants in a lush backyard garden.

Aerial view of patchwork fields on the Great Plains in North Dakota, showing cultivated farmland with green and golden brown sections stretching into the distance.

cultivating soil

The Ricasoli family's wine tradition and Chianti's landscape

How new orchid varieties are created

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Cultivator Farm machinery Hoe clean culture rotary hoe spring-tooth weeder rod weeder Mattock fās Origins of agriculture Tillage Fertilizer tilth