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Simple trellis for green beans

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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Propagating Blood (cling) Peaches

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concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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what is permaculture?

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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We have Monarch butterflies and caterpillars: Creating a Monarch Habitat

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Garden Failures...

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Shanleya's Quest: A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9-99 by Thomas Elpel

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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials

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Creating an Edible or Medicinal Garden for Your Use and for Butterflies to Enjoy

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Is using used tires dangerous for health / nature?

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How do you keep the cats from shitting in your garden?

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How to use fall leaves on your homestead

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

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

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Can I Let Potatoes Grow in the Same Spot Year after Year?

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Saving your own seed

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Ready to plant perennial greens in your garden?

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Embracing the Chaos of Self-Seeding Vegetables

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gardening for beginners

Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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How to use fall leaves on your homestead

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

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

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Ready to plant perennial greens in your garden?

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gardening for beginners

Changing your mindset around watering

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Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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Rewilding your homestead to create a wild homestead

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Easiest Fruit Tree to Grow

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Methods for preparing land for future planting at the garden/homestead scale

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What is THRIVING, in your garden, this year?

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Let's grow perennial root vegetables

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Reduce your garden's watering needs

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Talking about types of mulch - which do you prefer?

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Getting Started With Hugelkultur Beds

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Let's talk about mulch and mulching

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19 Ways to Make Your Homestead Resilient to Drought

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Build abundance with chop-and-drop

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The art of maximizing potato harvest

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Give nature a chance

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Hardy Kiwi Guild

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You should grow...Lost in seed catalogs

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Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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Benefits of No-Dig Gardening - Why Do No-Dig Gardening?

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Talking about types of mulch - which do you prefer?

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Garage / Winter gardening

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Crop rotation calendar

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Why mulching your garden paths is a great idea

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An overview of chop-and-drop and why it’s awesome

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Beans, Corn and Frost

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Sprouting/microgreening leaf lettuce

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12 things you can do this fall on your wild homestead

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Why is Berkeley Compost Method so fast?

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Air pruning

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Can I Replant a Garlic bed, if properly dressed? :-)

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Get pigs to till they said. It's great they said. Uh huh!

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Help With My Back to Eden Garden

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Roots on my elder-berry...

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what is permaculture?

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silly questions about lovage

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When to plant berries, and Q about trees

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Growing a garden in aged wood chips

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Container Strawberries Indoors?

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Edible Paradise by Vera Greutink

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Green potatoes safe to plant or use in compost?

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OK if garlic planting in bed after potatos?

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plants

Embracing the Chaos of Self-Seeding Vegetables

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Growing Garlic

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Where to spread your ashes

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flowers

Help with “wildflower meadow” small garden

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Putting the garden to bed for the winter

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Wood chip fall onions

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Pumpkins with yellow leaves -- what do I need to do?

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What is THRIVING, in your garden, this year?

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urban

Urban Farming: getting the most from small space?

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Best way to grow sweet potatoes for winter greens?

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Homesteading for Beginners (Video Series) by Maple Grove Productions

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Why leaf mold is awesome!

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urban

Nutrient Recycling Methods For Small Spaces

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Polycultures in Pots - Suggestions/Ideas?

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Thyme propagation technique.to make mini-hedges.

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Pros and Cons of Various Planting Containers

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Growing Native Wild Vegetables

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biointensive

Growing garden plants on a living trellis (other garden plants)

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Heirloom Crop Varieties for a Three-Sisters Garden?

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