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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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mulch

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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root crops

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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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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gardening for beginners

Simple trellis for green beans

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large 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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greening the desert

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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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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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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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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urban gardening

My city farm

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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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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fruit trees

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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flowers

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

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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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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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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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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hugelkultur

My first Hugelkultur turned into a flachkultur

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fungi

I found these 2 beauties

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permaculture

Windbreak Design WIth Mixed Tree Species

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hugelkultur

How to find the type of hugelkultur bed that’s right for you

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root crops

Yacon plant - Smallanthus Sonchifolius

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fruit trees

Blenril Apricot Scion for Pacific Northwest

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seeds and breeding

Dahlia landracing project in the far north of Scotland

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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organic

Tomato weirdness

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root crops

Urgent: Walking onions and freezing

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soil

A stupid fear getting in my way

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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forest garden

Use and benefits of using Caucasian Mountain spinach in our gardens.

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beans

Best ways to get runner bean tubers to overwinter and regrow quickly?

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biodynamic

the weeds we love

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gardening for beginners

Garden on this concrete, or remove all/some?

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plants

Tunnel of plants

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flowers

Whoopsie!

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seeds and breeding

Landrace and Heirlooms

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seeds and breeding

Tomato Breeding - F1 hybrid Habrochaites Grow Journal

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fungi

Images of Fungi: share for teaching & education

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fungi

Ive discovered a deforested area full of these

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soil

Wood Ash - An Overview

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seeds and breeding

Hybridizing cold hardy citrus to grow in the Pacific Northwest

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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perennial vegetables

Silverweed - ancient root crop

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gamcod

Tuckers (Janklabs) GAMCOD

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forest garden

To plant above, within, or below the swale?

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forest garden

should I redig my mini-swales?

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gamcod

Not GAMCOD on Skye plot - Year Two

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grapes

Bugs or Fungus

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gardening for beginners

Fall Garden Prep, Fall Leaves

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seeds and breeding

Northern oceanic tomatoes

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fungi

Bionic arms enable mushrooms to create their own music?

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root crops

Best storing sweet potato varieties

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seeds and breeding

Giving Ground Seeds from Idaho, USA

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forest garden

101 Things to do with a pile of sticks

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forest garden

Breeding Araucaria trees for increased production/growth rate.

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forest garden

Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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plants

Nasturtiums, I wish they were perennials.

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composting

Lead in soil and composting: am I overthinking this?

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soil

Transitioning Soil From Row Crops To Garden

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woodland

carving a wooden cup

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composting

composting eggshells...and eggs...

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