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Another reason to grow tomatillos: long storage, easy keepers 26 Dan Boone
Darren Abbey
plants
19th-century "Landers, Frary & Clark" 8-quart hand-cranked cast iron sausage press 10 Dan Boone
John C Daley
low tech
Yellowhorn / Yellow Horn / Goldenhorn / Xanthoceras sorbifolium (was Xanthoceras sorbifolia )
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54 Dan Boone
Jay Cutts
trees
Do you have an old-fashioned sawbuck? Do you have ANY sawbuck? How'd you make it? Let us see it!
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80 Dan Boone
Randy Eggert
gear
Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)
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60 Dan Boone
Sunny Baba
trees
Job's Tears -- coix lacryma-jobi -- Adlay -- I have questions 23 Dan Boone
May Lotito
grains and pseudograins
USB charging device that works off the batteries for your rechargeable hand tools: I built one 27 Dan Boone
Benjamin Dinkel
gear
40 pounds of (sorta) edible man-root: Ipomoea leptophylla/pandurata 10 Dan Boone
Jonathan de Revonah
plants
Siberian Pea Tree aka Caragana Arborescens - Edible, but are they "good eats"? 38 Dan Boone
Kathryn Hew
trees
Yarrow root tincture / mouthwash for dental antibiotic & pain relief: how to make it, with pictures 33 Dan Boone
Jane Mulberry
medicinal herbs
Growing date palms from 2000-year-old seeds: it's working! (Seeds are amazing.) 15 Dan Boone
Ms Bee von Trapp
trees
Chinese Che fruit tree (can be grafted onto Osage Orange)
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80 Dan Boone
Cristobal Cristo
trees
Ground Cherry seed saving: has anybody tried dehydrating the whole fruit? 5 Dan Boone
Robert Hinrich
cherries
A morning in the life of a broke would-be forest gardener 29 Dan Boone
Ra Kenworth
forest garden
What makes awesome French prepared mustard so awesome? 29 Dan Boone
Thekla McDaniels
cooking
Recommendation for a nicely tannic addition to my arsenal of herbal teas 35 Dan Boone
Kena Landry
medicinal herbs
The uselessness of my garden huckleberries (Solanum melanocerasum) 23 Dan Boone
Jane Mulberry
plants
How do you document your gardening? Farm journal, garden diary, smartphone app...
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64 Dan Boone
Robert Ray
gardening for beginners
All about apples (the forum kind) 0 Dan Boone
Nancy Reading
tinkering with this site
Troy-Bilt Tomahawk Wood Chipper/Shredder model 47285 -- anybody have an operating manual?
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46 Dan Boone
Nick Hall
gear
Free wood chips mulch from the utility crew! (The good, the bad, and the ugly) 32 Dan Boone
Jim Fry
mulch
Bulk cleaning and especially rust removal from bolts, screws, and other small hardware
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32 Dan Boone
Pearl Sutton
repair
Which grocery store food grains and seeds will definitely NOT germinate due to processing? 20 Dan Boone
Dian Green
gardening for beginners
Results growing seeds from hybrid tomatoes: an anecdote (not mine) about Sungold after 4 generations 12 Dan Boone
Jeff Peter
seeds and breeding
Getting ginger root to grow instead of rotting or drying out -- how? 14 Dan Boone
Penny Edwards
house plants
Making a North American version of Nocino with unripe (green) black walnuts (Juglans Nigra) 32 Dan Boone
marie-helene kutek
cooking
Fake guacamole SO GOOD the taco places in Mexico City and LA got busted for using it! (with recipe) 35 Dan Boone
Constancia Wiweru
cooking
Finally built my compost digester and planted out my hardy bananas (Musa Basjoo) -- in Oklahoma! 18 Dan Boone
John Warren
projects
Choosing sustainable software: my personal rules of thumb after 35 years of computing 23 Dan Boone
Phoenix Blackdove
gear
Hallucinogenic "Mad Honey" From Turkish Rhododendrons 3 Dan Boone
Prashanna ghimire
honey bees
Wild Idea: recruit corvids to plant peanuts for me? 21 Dan Boone
Nancy Graven
permaculture
Getting Aloe Vera leaves to root: has anybody here done it? 8 Dan Boone
Thekla McDaniels
plants
Making pod coffee (Keurig-style) without waste or hassle or undue expense: my frugal coffee process 3 Dan Boone
Randa Franks
frugality
Has anybody deliberately cultivated Greenbriar (various Smilax species) for the tender shoot tips? 12 Dan Boone
Doug McGregor
forest garden
Crypto-permie homesteaders on Nat Geo TV show "Live Free Or Die"
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83 Dan Boone
Stu Horton
homestead
Anybody with experience coppicing American persimmons? 13 Dan Boone
Thomas Pickens
trees
Uses for Aloe Vera? Looking for suggestions. 31 Dan Boone
Jenny Wright
house plants
Project: Growing Chinese Toon (toona sinensis) 31 Dan Boone
Diane Kistner
plants
Propagating native persimmon trees by root cuttings: an experiment 9 Dan Boone
Khanh Reed
propagation
Please help ID my mystery weed 4 Dan Boone
William Kellogg
plants
Specific varieties of zucchini for resistance to mildew & squash bugs? (plus adventures with tatume) 19 Dan Boone
William Bronson
plants
Non-industrial greenhouse coverings: what are the options? 15 Dan Boone
Douglas Alpenstock
greenhouses
Hello from central Oklahoma 14 Dan Boone
Laura Johnson
introductions
Adding vegetable stock making in my pressure cooker (yummy!) to my existing garden/food workflow 38 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
cooking
Cider Gum trees aka "cider tree" (Eucalyptus gunnii) -- sweet sap for sugar or fermentation 4 Dan Boone
Douglas Butner
trees
"Dorman Orange" paint color -- is that what color this steel box is? [Survey says: no!] 4 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
gear
Uses for "Orange Mint" -- suggestions welcome 5 Dan Boone
Donald Humbler
cooking
Detailed grow report: Lofthouse Big Hill tomatoes in containers in central Oklahoma 4 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
plants
Litchi tomatoes -- how cold hardy are they? And are they self-fertile, or not? 11 Dan Boone
jer ander
plants
Growing sun-tolerant paw-paw seedlings -- all it takes is a 50% sacrifice? 11 Dan Boone
John Wolfram
fruit trees
"Soft and slippery" pasta salad with whole wheat noodles -- help me brainstorm recipes/methods 2 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
cooking
German Chamomile, Roman Chamomile, and the wild stuff? [aka "pineapple weed", Matricaria discoidea] 20 Dan Boone
Robin Katz
medicinal herbs
Looking for easier ways to enjoy fresh Chinese water chestnuts. Peeling tiny spheres is arduous! 7 Dan Boone
Skandi Rogers
plants
When does your horseradish flower? Have you ever seen it make good horseradish seed? 3 Dan Boone
Garrett Schantz
seeds and breeding
My silly new chop-n-drop toy that I love: 21v electric shears/pruners from China 2 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
gear
Dumb/crazy grape propagation idea -- has anyone tried rooting stems/tendrils inside a fruit bunch? 18 Dan Boone
Em Bracken
propagation
Good source for Juliet (hybrid) tomato seeds in the USA? 26 Dan Boone
Charles Rehoboth
seeds and breeding
Permaculture advice from Eeyore: "Don't bother. It won't work. You're wasting your effort..." 4 Dan Boone
Nathaniel Swasey
tinkering with this site
George Washington Carver, old USDA advice, & why I quit nuking sweet potatoes for OMG! better flavor 5 Dan Boone
Dan Boone
cooking
Investigating the science of dowsing 13 Dan Boone
Nick Smith
science and research