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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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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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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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root crops

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

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urban gardening

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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large 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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greening the desert

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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permaculture

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

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gamcod

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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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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urban gardening

My city farm

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plants

What new plant will you try in 2025?

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fruit trees

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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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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gamcod

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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permaculture

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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soil

What is potash?

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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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propagation

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

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lawn

Lawnmower alternatives

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Fruitflies destroy my melons. What to do?

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biochar

So what is Hydrochar?

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forest garden

Building a food forest on the edge of the desert.

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biochar

Interview with Kelpie Wilson on the Biochar show

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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composting

Composting Nitrile Gloves

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propagation

Make your own high quality fabric pots

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seeds and breeding

2026 targets I need help finding from other places (in or near the U.S) for next year.

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permaculture

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plants

10% off all Chestnut trees for you good folks! Happy New Year!

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market garden

Anyone want to Chat? But not in real life...

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soil

building soil year after year

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urban gardening

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

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plants

Have you used Good King Henry?

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plants

Great big thread of Harvest photos!

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woodland

Black Locust Coppicing project and blog post

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propagation

Liriodendron Tulipifera seed sprouts

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composting

A LOT of Fall leaves

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plants

Turmeric in arid climes

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seeds and breeding

Fedco Seeds from Maine, USA

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur Forum Video Database

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hugelkultur

Please Critique This New Bed

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seeds and breeding

The official permies.com Seed and Plant Source Review Grid

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plants

Growing 40 large veggie plants in under 2 sq/ft

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flowers

James' Bloom Scroll

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seeds and breeding

Looking for more heirloom Irish and Swedish seeds to help reclaim my community's past.

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woodland

Paulownia Plantation

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permaculture

Scientific Neglect

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hugelkultur

sheet hugel - is this a good idea?

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composting

What is Compost?

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seeds and breeding

Looking for Hannan Popbean

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hugelkultur

Tropical Hugelkultur

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vines

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seeds and breeding

Hard to Save Seeds in cold climates

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soil

What made the biggest difference in your soil over the long run?

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fruit trees

Dwarfing black cherry, what a thought

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potatoes

Growing potatoes -- methods and musings

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

Peach tree borers

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soil

Will it improve my soil?

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forest garden

Food forest dream = too much fruit / sugar?

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hugelkultur

Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!

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root crops

Hardy Yam - Dioscorea

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perennial vegetables

Asparagus from seed in ground?

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fruit trees

Aphids and Leaf Curl

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