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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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large farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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forest garden

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

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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organic

diatomaceous earth

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composting

the solutions are simple

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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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plants

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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greening the desert

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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organic

organic war on fleas!

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plants

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

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

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permaculture

Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop

12 13 86

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Warning about zucchini toxicity and not eating things that taste horribly bitter

46 replies 4 21

forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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permaculture

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

43 replies 8 30

trees

What is your favorite tree and why?

75 replies 22 30

gardening for beginners

What died in your new gardens? so far...

82 replies 6 13

fungi

mushrooms, mosses and lichens (some to ID) from our hikes, home and other places in the Ozarks

32 replies 1 65 13

gardening for beginners

Ready to plant perennial greens in your garden?

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gardening for beginners

Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

31 replies 23 17

forest garden

Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

77 replies 1 6 14

forest garden

Rewilding your homestead to create a wild homestead

44 replies 11 18

composting

Superworms for bioremediation of polystyrene: ideas for extending the (re)processing?

56 replies 11 20

berries

Growing Blueberries Naturally with No Irrigation and No Pruning

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fruit trees

Easiest Fruit Tree to Grow

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tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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gardening for beginners

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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soil

All the Great Things about Wood Chips

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biochar

biochar and sorghum syrup question

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fruit trees

Anyone grow Mulberry?

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composting

vermicompost - do the results justify the time and expense

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composting

Free composting in place

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forest garden

Planted forests

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composting

Fancy worm composting cupboard/ compost tea brewer

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cover crops

deep rooting green manure / mulching plants

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plants

Can gobo (burdock) be grown from root cuttings?

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woodland

Paulownia or Empress Splendor tree for Coastal British Columbia and Washington

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composting

Eisenia fetida... or not?

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gardening for beginners

Free Garden Seeds

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mulch

Can I reuse grassy soil in a new raised bed if I tarp it to kill the grass within it?

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soil

Soil for adding to the garden this year

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mulch

Ideas for creatively transporting round bales

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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soil

Raised garden Beds

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permaculture

How to use living bacteria (EM) as bio-fertilizer

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hugelkultur

Can the wood be exposed on a hugel in a humid climate?

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fruit trees

Cedar Apple Rust, Very Resistant

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trees

Trees/shrubs for shelter belt in zone 2/3

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plants

growing apples from seeds vs. cloning

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plants

Garden Surprises

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permaculture

Using chickens to prepare garden beds

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gardening for beginners

Old bales of hay in the garden

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fungi

red chanterelles...cantharellus cinnabarinus

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fruit trees

Avocados and Frost in Europe (plus info on the cold-hardiest avocados and how to grow them)

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plants

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

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woodland

Safer ways of manually chopping wood

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plants

Uses for Aloe Vera? Looking for suggestions.

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gardening for beginners

Caper Seedling - Sleepless in NY

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forest garden

Adding Honey Locust and Siberian Pea to established Orchard - on the path to a forest garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

Apple Tree Seedlings

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organic

Squash vine borers -- what can I do?

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permaculture

Making a new seed mix for cleared/disturbed areas

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fruit trees

Quick and Easy Whip and Tongue Graft using Pruners

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fruit trees

Asian Pear leaves Wilting and drooping. What is the problem? Please help to save my tree

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Saving seeds from purchased ORGANIC tomatoes

2 days ago 4 replies 1

fungi

Oyster mushrooms on wood chips?

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fruit trees

Apple Tree Help

2 days ago 4 replies

urban

* Welcome Vera Greutink, Author of Edible Paradise!

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fungi

Grow oyster mushrooms on prickly pear?

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permaculture

alexia allen - wilderness instructor and homesteader

2 days ago 31 replies 1 1 1

flowers

Help a nube w/ starting flowers

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