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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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organic

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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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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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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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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perennial vegetables

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

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composting

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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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

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fruit trees

My city farm

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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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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flowers

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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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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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root crops

Welcome to the new root crops forum!!

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soil

Soil vs Compost

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plants

What is this—its taking over my tall grass area.

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pasture

Pasture, Wetland & Forest Edge Seeds - 2025 - zone 5a

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permaculture

Oriental Bittersweet Control?

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root crops

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

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forest garden

Free Fertilizer from Wildlife

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fungi

Is this lentinus crinitus?

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trees

Planting new forests in India

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fruit trees

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fungi

Mushroom farming in hugelcultures

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gardening for beginners

All-in-One Permaculture Design App

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trees

Planting 24,000 trees in Ireland

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composting

Compost in place method

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grapes

Bugs or Fungus

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forest garden

2020 Forest Garden Plan.

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organic

Stock-Free Growing - video with Iain Tollhurst

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plants

Do climbing plants learn to avoid certain structures?

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root crops

Best storing sweet potato varieties

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perennial vegetables

Perennial Vegetables for a Fall Planting

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biochar

Burlap bags for biochar/mycelium?

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fungi

Locals call this mushroom "chicken breast" Any idea The scientific name?

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forest garden

To plant above, within, or below the swale?

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nuts

growing peanuts...might have made a mistake...now some success!

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seeds and breeding

Where can I get sunchokes?

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propagation

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

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seeds and breeding

Creating a Mochata Squash Landrace that is Vigorous, Productive, and Bug and Disease Resistant!

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flowers

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forest garden

Vegan Perennial Food Forest Vision

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permaculture

mecanisms of plants to save water.

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nuts

Small chestnuts

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composting

Hot compost dreams

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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polyculture

Jerusalem Artichoke (sunchoke) and Sweet Lupine Regenerative Cover Crop

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potatoes

Permies' Potato experiments

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seeds and breeding

Edible Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) - Buy, Sell & Trade

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seeds and breeding

Northern oceanic tomatoes

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forest garden

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

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gardening for beginners

Harvest before frost?

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soil

How do we save and clean our soil from contamination and other sources of pollution.

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soil

How to tell if soil's comtaminated and solutions.

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soil

The wonderful world of water, soil and plants

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grains and pseudograins

Hulling Oats on a small scale

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trees

How to Graft Honey Locust

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forest garden

Medicinal forest gardening

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