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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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apples

A lot about apples!

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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trees

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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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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root crops

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

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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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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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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gardening for beginners

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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plants

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

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soil

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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urban gardening

victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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composting

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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plants

neighborhood bamboo patch

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perennial vegetables

Perennials, the gift you can keep giving

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soil

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

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soil

raining non-stop

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flowers

Euptoieta claudia - Variegated Fritillary...caterpillar and chrysalis and now a butterfly emerged!

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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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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

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gardening for beginners

What is Compost?

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permaculture

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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soil

What is potash?

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greening the desert

Wind Blocks and Bird Deterrent

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mulch

sheet mulch contents

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organic

liquid gold - Urine as fertilizer!

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gardening for beginners

Where to start? New house, new land. Not a previous garden plot

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gardening for beginners

Garden / soil help please

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fruit trees

Pear trees

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composting

questions about collecting seagrass and seaweed for soil building

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lawn

riding mowers loose in the neighborhood!!!

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plants

Looking for some Whitten kenaf seeds — rounded-leaf Hibiscus cannabinus. Can you help?

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greening the desert

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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biochar

making biochar: methods pros and cons

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forest garden

Syntropic Agriculture

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berries

My goji berries taste awful.

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plants

Help identifying a plant #2

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plants

Plants where all of it is edible

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fungi

Orange spots on mycelium

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fruit trees

Apricot trees late to leaf or dying?

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biochar

Definition of biochar

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biochar

Urine and other inoculants for biochar

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plants

Edible Cacti

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gardening for beginners

I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

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biochar

Biomieler and Biochar

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biochar

What is your end goal with biochar?

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permaculture

DIY Indigenous Microorganism Culture

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plants

Help identifying a plant #1

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gardening for beginners

What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

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greening the desert

The Big Fat Thread of Dryland Farming Ideas!

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seeds and breeding

Perennial head cabbage?

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composting

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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plants

Plants that are money in the bank, food in the ground(/container)

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nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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root crops

Yacon plant - Smallanthus Sonchifolius

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organic

will dill seed and anise seed grow from organic spice bottles

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permaculture

A Food Forest From the Grocery Store?

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urban gardening

What did you harvest (eat, preserve, plant) today?

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gardening for beginners

Using water with arsenic on my plants

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plants

"Scientific" Test of Water Wicking Materials

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seeds and breeding

Squirrels ate my fava bean, and snow pea, seeds right away

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gardening for beginners

What to do with 3/4 of an acre

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gardening for beginners

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

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alliums

Easy to Grow Perennial Walking Onion and How to Cook with Them

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fruit trees

Persimmon borers

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hugelkultur

all commercial mulches are loaded with persistent herbicides

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organic

Outsider research project: trying to understand the real paperwork pain of organic certification

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propagation

how does rhubarb sprout from a root section without a crown?

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gardening for beginners

Removing plastic when growing micro-greens

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