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seeds and breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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apples

A lot about apples!

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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trees

raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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woodland

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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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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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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gardening for beginners

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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perennial vegetables

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

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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small 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

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permaculture

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

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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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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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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seeds and breeding

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 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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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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gamcod

GAMCOD 2025: 200 square feet; Zero degrees F or colder; calories cheap and easy

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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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seeds and breeding

I ordered my 'Going to Seed' seeds! Joseph Lofthouse's Landrace Seed Share group

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lawn

Lawnmower alternatives

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biochar

Why don't more people make biochar?

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root crops

Welcome to the new root crops forum!!

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perennial vegetables

I love the "idea" of perennial vegetables...

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plants

What is this—its taking over my tall grass area.

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grains and pseudograins

Hulling Oats on a small scale

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root crops

First root cellar, temp to start storage?

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nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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trees

Planting 24,000 trees in Ireland

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soil

What was woodchips is now next springs potting soil

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forest garden

Why are we mowing?

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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plants

Heirloom crops of Mississippi.

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root crops

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seeds and breeding

Garlic Time

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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gardening for beginners

first frost came early -- can I still save seeds?

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seeds and breeding

Free Sunflower Seeds - Will you help my son increase genetics?

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propagation

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

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plants

MOST Edible Bamboo?

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cover crops

Managing Hairy Vetch?

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greening the desert

Creative watering techniques?

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potatoes

growing potatoes as perennials

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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beans

Small-ish Scale Dry Bean Harvesting

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pasture

Anyone Plant Running Bamboo in Your Pasture?

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flowers

hibiscus? Roselle!

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plants

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urban gardening

Path to Freedom - Pasadena permies

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trees

growing Dwarf Moringa in pots

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potatoes

Growing potatoes in pine needles

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urban gardening

Terraponics

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perennial vegetables

Tuberous Jerusalem sage

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plums

Plums: An underrated fruit?

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market garden

How do you get customers?

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apples

Website all about Jamaican apples

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gardening for beginners

Charleton Gray Watermelon

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dynamic accumulators

Litter Raking

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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gardening for beginners

Hello Everyone! A Gardening Beginner Here

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woodland

*Welcome Mark Krawczyk, author of Coppice Agroforestry!

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perennial vegetables

Perennial Vegetables for a Fall Planting

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grains and pseudograins

Corn Variety: Bloody Butcher

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biochar

Podcast with Kelpie Wilson about biochar

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trees

Getting rid of unwanted tree seedlings and sprouts?

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berries

American Beautyberry

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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composting

Food recycler, compost newb

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