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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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forest garden

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

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Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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organic

diatomaceous earth

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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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

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

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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large farm

anyone here make money from permaculture?

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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organic

organic war on fleas!

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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permaculture

Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Dry Farmed Direct Seeded Tomatoes in 2019

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fruit trees

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

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

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

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soil

Building soil for Nutrient Dense Foods

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composting

How to use fall leaves on your homestead

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plants

Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre by Raven Ranson

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gardening for beginners

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

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permaculture

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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gardening for beginners

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

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trees

What is your favorite tree and why?

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permaculture

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

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forest garden

Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

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composting

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

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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plants

do beets HAVE to taste like dirt?

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gardening for beginners

Changing your mindset around watering

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gardening for beginners

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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fruit trees

Creating microclimate for fig tree

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urban

Urban Farming: getting the most from small space?

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fruit trees

Local substitutes of neem oil

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permaculture

Growing corn to sequester carbon?

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grains and pseudograins

Shelling sunflowers

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gardening for beginners

Putting the garden to bed for the winter

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carbon farming

Carbon capture, grazing ruminants, and permaculture : let’s talk !

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

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permaculture

"One Circle" book by Dave Duhon: discuss garden plan

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grains and pseudograins

Anyone growing crops for oil ?

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hugelkultur

Hugel bed for flowers

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permaculture

too much nitrogen in our planet's ecosystem??

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small farm

Cover crops $$ proof

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forest garden

New forest garden plot in mid missouri

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composting

Wasted beer and alcohol to produce what?

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biointensive

Herbal medicine making as business

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trees

Thinking about butchering a Bradford for grafting..

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cover crops

Very Deep-rooted Cover Crops

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woodland

gin pole mounted on a tractor bucket

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cover crops

Broadcasting in narrow spaces

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plants

starting a jerusalem artichoke patch

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soil

What we need to know about Soil

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flowers

Help identifying two wildflowers

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gardening for beginners

Best way to grow sweet potatoes for winter greens?

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urban

Sustenance Farming on 1/4 acre

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flowers

another tall plant with white flowers to ID

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flowers

New Flowers Forum!

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forest garden

Are goats compatible with a permaculture food forest?

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urban

Here's the start of my new urban place

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plants

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

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composting

Is lots of mycelium in the vermicompost bin ok?

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composting

Are Potatoes Really Bad for Worms?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

AVAILABLE: Sandhill and Mirabelle plum seeds from Oregon

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composting

Compost redo

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small farm

lease, barter or rent to buy land

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lawn

Coffee Grounds

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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berries

Do deer browse your blueberry bushes?

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composting

Coffee grounds

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organic

Testing different fertilizer blends

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plants

Has anyone grown miscanthus giganteus(The Tall Grass)?

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composting

When to start a compost pile?

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hugelkultur

Hugelkulture Year 1, My Results

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fruit trees

Building a Fruit Tree Mound to Create Own Root Fruit Trees and Increase Soil Drainage in a Wet Area

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lawn

Introduction to eco-lawns

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