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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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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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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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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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forest garden

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

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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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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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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greening the desert

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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urban

anyone here make money from permaculture?

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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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gardening for beginners

Victory Gardens! How-to, what to grow, and so much more!

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

86 replies 46 26

permaculture

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

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

88 replies 1 34

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

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

51 replies 4 22

fungi

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

38 replies 1 104 18

forest garden

What's your favorite native/wild fruit to harvest and eat?

61 replies 11 46

fruit trees

Weekly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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hugelkultur

chicken down hugel up

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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soil

All the Great Things about Wood Chips

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permaculture

A Stupid Fantasy or a Calling? Please help!

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woodland

Creating an Oak forest

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gardening for beginners

Gardening while watching a small child

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Why don't more people save seeds?

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plants

Are any Canadians interested in growing cotton?

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gardening for beginners

Changing your mindset around watering

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plants

FREE Natural Raised Beds

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tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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trees

Is my Chestnut still alive?

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fruit trees

Planting freshly-grafted rootstock. In the final local or in a temp garden bed???

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composting

How can one obtain large amounts of organic matter to compost?

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urban

War against English Ivy

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gardening for beginners

Any experience with jicama?

3 hours ago 2 replies

gardening for beginners

Regrowing store produce after using most of it

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propagation

Get Free Blueberry Plants from Existing Bushes!

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cover crops

Covercrop Question

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gardening for beginners

Building raised bed over lawn

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plants

Fertilizing herbs in containers?

5 hours ago 2 replies

permaculture

Growing under a Banyan tree?

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gardening for beginners

Making raised beds--preservative suggestions?

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trees

Most useful willow species?

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gardening for beginners

Victory Gardens! How-to, what to grow, and so much more!

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gardening for beginners

Tips for first year-successful garden beds? What are your plans?

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plants

Growing melons and Squash in Pots?

8 hours ago 1 reply

gardening for beginners

New Garden: No-till? Double Dig? Something else?

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fruit trees

Where to put baby trees for a year?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Saving Brassica seed

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gardening for beginners

New to raised beds and greenhouses. Need Advice.

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fruit trees

Fruit trees damaged by rodents

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propagation

Propagating Quality Fruit Trees From Seed.

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urban

Container gardening - self watering nested bucket design

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composting

composting wood chips with chicken litter and fungi

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fruit trees

Seedling peach tree success/proof that it's worth it to grow from seed.

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polyculture

Onions inhibiting the growth of legumes, is it a myth?

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grains and pseudograins

Emmer or Barley?

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grains and pseudograins

Rye_Sepp's semi-perennial Russian_Growing & Harvesting

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plants

Can tomato plants tolerate 35F weather for 24 hours?

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mulch

Does Paul hate wood chippers? If so, why?

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soil

New Bed

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small farm

HELP, need an easy way to transplant tomatoes

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gardening for beginners

What weed is this?

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fruit trees

'Melting flesh' peaches for zone 5?

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gardening for beginners

Direct seeding or transplanting vegetable starts - which do you do?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Seeds Non-essential Now COVID19

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plants

Thyme propagation technique.to make mini-hedges.

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soil

Found layer of petroleum below my soil/horse manure in my barnyard

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permaculture

Suggestions for perennial vegetables or fruits?

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fruit trees

Low/no irrigation victory garden and food forest?

1 day ago 2 replies 1

dynamic accumulators

New research on Dynamic Accumulators (incl. the Mother of all Lists)

1 day ago 1 reply 1

organic

willow water and other natural rooting agents

1 day ago 3 replies

soil

Finding good container soil "in the wild"

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soil

A Soil Owner's Manual by Jon Sitka--Discussion thread.

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