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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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Fava Beans - more than just beans

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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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gardening for beginners

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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keyhole garden in summer drought

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gardening for beginners

Simple trellis for green beans

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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forest garden

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

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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polyculture

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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fruit trees

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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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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urban gardening

My city farm

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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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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flowers

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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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peaches

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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permaculture

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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soil

What is potash?

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berries

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

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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composting

What is Compost?

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propagation

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

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seeds and breeding

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grains and pseudograins

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fruit trees

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seeds and breeding

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flowers

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