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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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forest garden

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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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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forest garden

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

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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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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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gardening for beginners

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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plants

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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small farm

anyone here make money from permaculture?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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greening the desert

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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permaculture

Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Dry Farmed Direct Seeded Tomatoes in 2019

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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

What the heck is Humus?

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soil

Building soil for Nutrient Dense Foods

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permaculture

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

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permaculture

Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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forest garden

What is your favorite tree and why?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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gardening for beginners

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

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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gardening for beginners

Ready to plant perennial greens in your 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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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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gardening for beginners

Changing your mindset around watering

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tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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soil

All the Great Things about Wood Chips

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gardening for beginners

FREE Natural Raised Beds

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gardening for beginners

plant ID help

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gardening for beginners

The art of maximizing potato harvest

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trees

Living Christmas Trees?

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composting

Wood and paper ash - best use?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Saving/storing seeds

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urban

Deparasiting fox / cat poo using heat so it can safely decompose in the garden??

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perennial vegetables

Grow perennial brassicas!

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fungi

My attempt at mushrooms in coffee grounds

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permaculture

is "permaculture farm" an oxymoron?

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fruit trees

Made an account to ask this. Please help my friends lime tree!

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gardening for beginners

Grow lights

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biochar

Indoor biochar kiln and heat source

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Need help finding old scientific study

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Using Seed Saving Towels Instead of Paper Towels

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biochar

Pyroligneous acid/ liquid smoke

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plants

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

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gardening for beginners

How do your organise your seed packets?

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woodland

Black Walnut Uses

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fungi

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

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biochar

On the topic of biochar

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permaculture

Land/Intentional Community Opportunitiy in Cascadia Bioregion

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permaculture

Sepp Holzer on fish feed

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tips for awkward spots

Saving the Slope, and Consequently my Parents' Foundation

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woodland

All things Black Locust

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biodynamic

Vegan Biodynamics

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urban

Could we have an urban/suburban permie picture thread?

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composting

Experimenting with anaerobic composting - not sure if it works

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biochar

Biochar for humans?

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permaculture

snow swales--things to do in winter, way to observe and interact, use for frost heaves and pockets

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plants

Project: Growing Chinese Toon (toona sinensis)

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cover crops

Lack of nitrogen fixing nodules.

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organic

Vinegar as an herbicide

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composting

Composting Experiment

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fungi

Mushroom ID

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gardening for beginners

Watering With Capillary Action

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lawn

Non toxic methods for keeping a graveled storage area clear of plants

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fruit trees

Ice Cream Bean Tree - Inga Edulis

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plants

Growing sweet potaoes in the greenhouse.

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gardening for beginners

The Ultimate Permaculture Plant Database

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plants

Hard start, lessons learned, but still need help.

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greening the desert

Maintaining tools in the desert

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trees

Legume/pea/bean tree, zones 8a - 10b

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greening the desert

Las Vegas Food Foresters

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small farm

What if I get injured?

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