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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Garden picture exchange!

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women peeing outdoors

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Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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

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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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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

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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forest garden

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

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

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

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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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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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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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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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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permaculture

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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soil

What is potash?

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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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seeds and breeding

Can you sprout split peas? - Yes!

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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A LOT of Fall leaves

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Fedco Seeds from Maine, USA

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forest garden

Building a food forest on the edge of the desert.

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur Forum Video Database

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plants

Turmeric in arid climes

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hugelkultur

Please Critique This New Bed

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seeds and breeding

The official permies.com Seed and Plant Source Review Grid

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seeds and breeding

2026 targets I need help finding from other places (in or near the U.S) for next year.

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seeds and breeding

Looking for more heirloom Irish and Swedish seeds to help reclaim my community's past.

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Scientific Neglect

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hugelkultur

sheet hugel - is this a good idea?

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composting

What is Compost?

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seeds and breeding

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hugelkultur

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vines

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seeds and breeding

Hard to Save Seeds in cold climates

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soil

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fruit trees

Dwarfing black cherry, what a thought

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potatoes

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

Peach tree borers

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soil

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forest garden

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hugelkultur

Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!

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root crops

Hardy Yam - Dioscorea

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perennial vegetables

Asparagus from seed in ground?

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fruit trees

Aphids and Leaf Curl

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seeds and breeding

Easiest and Hardest Seeds to Save

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gardening for beginners

Fastest harvest Permaculture Crop Northern Europe?

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forest garden

Converting a Monoculture Orchard To a Food Forest

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organic

concerns with using cardboard/newspaper as a mulch

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biochar

Permies Poll: Do you produce your own biochar?

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fruit trees

Apple tree issue

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fruit trees

Good fruit trees for my new property

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berries

Moving blackberry rootings in winter

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forest garden

What are your thoughts on Autumn Olive?

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gardening for beginners

Growing green onions from seed in containers

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propagation

Propagating Blood (cling) Peaches

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hugelkultur

How to prepare Hugelkultur for spring.

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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gamcod

Wheaton Labs GAMCOD 2025: Calorie Results

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permaculture

White House: Eat the View

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