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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

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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Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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root crops

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

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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plants

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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gardening for beginners

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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trees

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

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soil

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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gardening for beginners

victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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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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soil

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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plants

neighborhood bamboo patch

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perennial vegetables

Perennials, the gift you can keep giving

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soil

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

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soil

raining non-stop

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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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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

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composting

What is Compost?

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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soil

What is potash?

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greening the desert

Wind Blocks and Bird Deterrent

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lawn

organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy

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grains and pseudograins

How to tell the difference between barley, rye, and wheat?

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seeds and breeding

When does your horseradish flower? Have you ever seen it make good horseradish seed?

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lawn

Walkable meadow lawns

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lawn

Permies Poll: How do you mow your lawn?

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nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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fungi

Orange spots on mycelium

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root crops

Addi Anchote

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gardening for beginners

Potato Towers

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biochar

Definition of biochar

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur YouTube video—interesting, legit sources?

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seeds and breeding

Peru veggies

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gardening for beginners

What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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perennial vegetables

Michigan Tree Collards

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plants

Plant identification

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seeds and breeding

Seed starting hack...

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seeds and breeding

All Things Apios Americana

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alliums

Easy to Grow Perennial Walking Onion and How to Cook with Them

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gardening for beginners

What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

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plants

How long does it take for Rhubarb to establish?

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fruit trees

Pear trees

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energy crops

Perennial oil seed crops

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trees

Air prune beds

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energy crops

what are good methods of oil extraction from plant materials?

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plants

How to get bamboo to grow faster and bigger?

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gardening for beginners

Where to start? New house, new land. Not a previous garden plot

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organic

liquid gold - Urine as fertilizer!

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permaculture

Benefits of Bamboo?

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mulch

sheet mulch contents

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gardening for beginners

Garden / soil help please

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composting

questions about collecting seagrass and seaweed for soil building

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lawn

riding mowers loose in the neighborhood!!!

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plants

Looking for some Whitten kenaf seeds — rounded-leaf Hibiscus cannabinus. Can you help?

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greening the desert

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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biochar

making biochar: methods pros and cons

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forest garden

Syntropic Agriculture

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berries

My goji berries taste awful.

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plants

Help identifying a plant #2

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plants

Plants where all of it is edible

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fruit trees

Apricot trees late to leaf or dying?

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biochar

Urine and other inoculants for biochar

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plants

Edible Cacti

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gardening for beginners

I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

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biochar

Biomieler and Biochar

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soil

I have a bad situation

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