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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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apples

A lot about apples!

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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trees

raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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urban gardening

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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perennial vegetables

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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plants

Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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forest garden

Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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propagation

garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gamcod

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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urban gardening

My city farm

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plants

What new plant will you try in 2025?

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seeds and breeding

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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flowers

Euptoieta claudia - Variegated Fritillary...caterpillar and chrysalis and now a butterfly emerged!

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peaches

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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gamcod

GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy

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berries

American Elderberry, cut to the ground every year? Biomass bonanza?

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seeds and breeding

Can you sprout split peas? - Yes!

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seeds and breeding

I ordered my 'Going to Seed' seeds! Joseph Lofthouse's Landrace Seed Share group

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lawn

Lawnmower alternatives

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biochar

Why don't more people make biochar?

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root crops

Welcome to the new root crops forum!!

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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composting

Composting Bags of Flour

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beans

How do you cook your beans?

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plants

Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

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fungi

Inoculating fungi on stumps using wheat colonized with mycelium

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fungi

What's it?

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perennial vegetables

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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root crops

Harvesting Sun chokes First Year

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biochar

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trees

Ginkgo

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plants

Our 2025 garden

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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permaculture

All the possible uses for straw ?

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permaculture

Save my willow!

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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house plants

I may have a problem.. how many plant are in your room?

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house plants

Plants in my house make me happy! Mental well-being through rewilding the house

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soil

List of Dr. RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads

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plants

Tell me about your favorite house plants!!

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hugelkultur

Idea - Chop and drop scaffolding for precision hügels

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fungi

Is this turkey tail?

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tips for awkward spots

sandy sandy river bank

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fruit trees

Ice Damaged Plum Tree

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plants

What are the best groundcover species?

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soil

Used brewing yeast for fertilizer?

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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permaculture

Permaculture patterns - Lobes

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peaches

Growing Peach Trees from Seed Naturally

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trees

Yellowhorn / Yellow Horn / Goldenhorn / Xanthoceras sorbifolium (was Xanthoceras sorbifolia )

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small farm

Practical 1-Acre Staple Foods?

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plants

Viga aconitifolia mat bean, moth bean

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wetlands

Flood can be more devastating than drought

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fruit trees

Swales and Fruit Trees

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plants

pistachio companions

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plants

plant nursery

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seeds and breeding

are these flower buds or seeds forming on my purple sweet potato vine?

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perennial vegetables

Fall care for perennial kales in 6b?

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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fruit trees

graft orientation for success

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perennial vegetables

Lathyrus tuberosus

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flowers

James' Bloom Scroll

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polyculture

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permaculture

Hedging and shade

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fruit trees

First-Time Fruit Tree Planting

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propagation

Bok Choy experiment

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greening the desert

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