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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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trees

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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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seeds and breeding

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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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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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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perennial vegetables

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

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

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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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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seeds and breeding

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

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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fruit trees

My city farm

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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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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

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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vines

Sword Beans - trying them as an annual

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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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plants

Can you sprout split peas? - Yes!

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forest garden

Plot 33: A new community 'forest garden'

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fruit trees

Chicago hardy fig zone 6 winter protection success!

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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gardening for beginners

Growing Food on a Budget

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plants

Chamberbitter (Phyllanthus urinaria): Are there any uses for it, or is it just a nuisance?

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dynamic accumulators

Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids, Comfrey, and the Boraginaceae Family

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plants

Lignin Content after Chop and Drop

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pears

Pear tree questions

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potatoes

What's eating my potatoes?

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plants

What are your favorite hot and humid weather plants?

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nuts

growing peanuts...might have made a mistake

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fruit trees

Pawpaw and Human Toxicity / Neurodegeneration

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organic

Lessons learned this year.

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plants

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fruit trees

Fruit tree guilds and edible companion plants (Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum)

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grains and pseudograins

Farming and Selling Grain flours as a Small Business

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fruit trees

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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grapes

Growing grapevines from containers (pot vs planter box/trough)

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berries

Black nightshade

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organic

2025 year of the Zinnias

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potatoes

Are these TPS seedlings? - eggplant? physalis?

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organic

Incredible, Amazing....Leaf Mold

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gardening for beginners

Sweet potatoes from slips in pots

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urban gardening

xeriscaping

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plants

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

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perennial vegetables

Everlasting pea

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trees

Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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permaculture

Does pruning encourage root growth or root decay?

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apples

growing apple trees from seed, yes, it can be done

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gardening for beginners

Can you eat immature pumpkins?

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grains and pseudograins

Job's Tears -- coix lacryma-jobi -- Adlay -- I have questions

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beans

Green beans sparse and curved

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gardening for beginners

Growing chia

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grains and pseudograins

Bloody Butcher Harvest

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permaculture

Restoring a forest in denuded land

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grains and pseudograins

Corn Variety: Bloody Butcher

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permaculture

Surprising successes

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trees

Whatsit?

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peaches

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beans

saving infested yard long beans

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plants

Giant Kale

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beans

Most beautiful beans?

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vines

Northern hop growers - advice needed!

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