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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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anyone here make money from permaculture?

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Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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Fruit Trees from Seed

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Seed Starting without electricity

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How to get the most out of small acreage?

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Netherlands, 2nd in the World in Exporting Food--And they go about it very differently than the US

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Small-ish Scale Dry Bean Harvesting

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No compost in a full-farm eco system...

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How much do you produce - growing all of your food

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Our homestead garden blog

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Small animals for small farm plowing...

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Experience with sheep wool pellets?

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Scaling up!

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Planning for succession on the small farm?

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(Really) small farm waste stream

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Using AI as a farm planning aid

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wool pellets

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The Adventure Begins soon - June 2025

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Open Feedback on 25 Acre Farm Plan

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Does anyone know of an agriculture apprenticeship that offers a college degree?

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Pentatomids aka Shield Bugs aka Stink Bugs

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Making fence posts using biochar

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How to get the most out of small acreage?

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Small-ish Scale Dry Bean Harvesting

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The extreme danger of machinery.

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Experience with sheep wool pellets?

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Generational Homestead Meals—What’s Been Passed Down, Preserved, or Reimagined?

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Practical 1-Acre Staple Foods?

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Open Feedback on 25 Acre Farm Plan

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Tractors, necessary, or luxury?

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Fruit Trees from Seed

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Making fence posts using biochar

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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Free Seeds from URI!

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42 Acres in WNC Needs A Couple To Grow With

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Using AI as a farm planning aid

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Interested in gardening/living in the Azores, Portugal?

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Su Ba’s Community Farm Project - Adding Permaculture

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Landrace Gardening

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Any varieties of Oats known to do better in the heat?

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Growing Peaches Naturally

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How profitable is a small farm?

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The Adventure Begins soon - June 2025

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Please welcome Ethan Sager, of Again and Again Farmstead!

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Shredded Cardboard as mulch base layer/bedding

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wildlife

Why we work with Animals and critters small and large, wild and domesticated.

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wool pellets

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Small animals for small farm plowing...

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Planning for succession on the small farm?

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(Really) small farm waste stream

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How to set up a farm in 9 steps

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Greenhouse Orientation and spacing

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Pentatomids aka Shield Bugs aka Stink Bugs

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agriculture apprenticeships

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Scaling up!

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Sustainable Land Clearing

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The Ecological Farm by Helen Atthowe

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Drip irrigation "adjustable spray emitters" on old garden hose

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Fencing & windrows to deal with ag spray drift?

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Cleaning ibc tote

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Living with the wildlife

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Can you lease just 1 acre to start a small farm/garden?

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