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Starting a Fire in a Wood Stove
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Starting a fire in a wood stove can be difficult compared to starting a fire in a furnace. Visit our site to learn about starting a fire in a wood stove.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Resource — Employee Guide
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This Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy resource introduces employees of participating stores to the program, which aims to create healthier communities by encouraging stores to offer more healthy foods, working to build demand and providing nutrition education.
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Donating safe and nutritious food to food pantries and soup kitchens — Leader’s Guide
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Editor’s note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Resource — 4 P’s Marketing Strategies
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Marketing strategies are used to increase demand for products available in a store, increase sales, and gain new customers. Learn how the four P’s of marketing (pricing, promotion, products, placement) can help retailers better market healthy foods items.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Resource — Stocking Healthy Foods
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Stock your store with healthy foods and help your community eat right. Use this resource as a guide when ordering or selecting products to ensure your store is filled with healthy inventory — in the cooler, in the freezer, on the shelves.
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Considerations in Drying Hardwood Lumber
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Our publication provides points to remember when considering hardwood lumber drying. Visit our site to learn the Considerations in Drying Hardwood Lumber.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Loyalty Card — Fresh Produce
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Reward customers for buying fresh produce. This loyalty card, which encourages healthy food purchases, was created for small food-retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program. Download, print, cut, distribute and punch on each use.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Shelf Talkers
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Small food-retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program, help your customers make the healthier choice by posting these shelf talkers to educate them on how to select and store various healthy products. Download, print and hang!
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Resource — Displaying Healthy Foods in Your Store
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Displaying healthy foods prominently will attract customers’ attention and generate sales. Make the healthy choice the easy choice for your customers by following these tips to showcase your store’s healthy foods.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Resource — Increasing Profits With Value-Added Products
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Customers today are looking for ways to save time. Have quick, easy and healthy snacks available to attract new customers and retain existing customers. Learn how to create value-added products in this Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy retailer resource.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Sign — Free Fruit for Kids
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Small food retailers, encourage healthy eating by offering a free piece of fruit to children to eat while the adult with them shops. And offer more healthy food options with the help of this and other Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy resources.
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State and EPA Regulations for Domestic Wastewater Sludge and Biosolids
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Learn about Missouri and federal regulations for use and disposal of domestic wastewater sludge and biosolids (which can be used as fertilizer or soil amendment) in this guide. Sludge use and disposal operations include landfill and incineration.
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Collections and Storage of Biosolids
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Land Application of Septage
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Learn about regulations and standards related to biosolids from septage — biosolids land application, contract haulers, metals standards, lime stabilization, pathogen and vector requirements, and more — in this University of Missouri Extension guide.
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Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Large Shelf Talkers
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Small food-retailers participating in the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy program, help your customers learn how to select and store healthy foods by posting these shelf talkers to present health information about various products. Download, print and hang!
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Biosolids Glossary of Terms
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Caring for Houseplants, Page 2
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Listen to audio clips on houseplant care.
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Terrariums
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Preparing Wood for Your Wood Stove
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Caring for Houseplants
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To many people, a home is not complete without attractive potted plants. Proper care of houseplants helps increase satisfaction and enjoyment from them and extends the blooming period of many flowering plants.
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Preventing and Managing Plant Diseases
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The first and best defense against plant diseases is a healthy plant. Visit our site to learn about Preventing and Managing Plant Diseases.
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Crop/Nutrient Considerations for Biosolids
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Applying biosolids to land benefits the land and provides an environmentally safe way to recycle waste. However, the benefits will be gained only by applying quantities of biosolids to supply nutrients, according to the plant needs.
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Groundwater Quality
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Reducing the Risk of Groundwater Contamination by Improving Fertilizer Storage and Handling
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If stored safely in a secure location, fertilizers pose little danger to groundwater. Common sense suggests keeping fertilizer dry and out of the way of activities that might rip open a bag or allow rain to enter a bulk container.