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Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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forest garden

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

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Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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organic

diatomaceous earth

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composting

the solutions are simple

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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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plants

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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urban

anyone here make money from permaculture?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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organic

organic war on fleas!

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Easiest Vegetable to Grow

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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Dry Farmed Direct Seeded Tomatoes in 2019

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fruit trees

Seedling peach tree success/proof that it's worth it to grow from seed.

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Warning about zucchini toxicity and not eating things that taste horribly bitter

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soil

Building soil for Nutrient Dense Foods

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gardening for beginners

How to use fall leaves on your homestead

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plants

Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre by Raven Ranson

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gardening for beginners

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

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Using native plants to benefit your homestead

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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gardening for beginners

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

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forest garden

What is your favorite tree and why?

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permaculture

Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop

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forest garden

Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

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composting

Superworms for bioremediation of polystyrene: ideas for extending the (re)processing?

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gardening for beginners

Ready to plant perennial greens in your garden?

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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plants

do beets HAVE to taste like dirt?

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gardening for beginners

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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Are goats compatible with a permaculture food forest?

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urban

Here's the start of my new urban place

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composting

When to start a compost pile?

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

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trees

Chestnut Harvest now what

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soil

liquid fish

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permaculture

too much nitrogen in our planet's ecosystem??

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fruit trees

Creating microclimate for fig tree

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composting

Pond bio-matter

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permaculture

My permaculture journey

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tips for awkward spots

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pasture

favorite hand tool for cutting bermuda grass?

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fruit trees

Building a Fruit Tree Mound to Create Own Root Fruit Trees and Increase Soil Drainage in a Wet Area

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soil

Imagine Assisting Ecology Significatly

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plants

Permie indoor plants

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fruit trees

recommendations for Fig cultivars Zone 7B

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permaculture

Hummingbirds and Parasitoid Wasps

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fruit trees

Azarole (Crataegus azarolus) growing requirements?

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lawn

Introduction to eco-lawns

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fruit trees

Sick apple tree Need help

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trees

Mulberries in zone 3ish?

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berries

Do deer browse your blueberry bushes?

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fungi

What is my Lion's Mane totem doing?

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permaculture

Suggestions for perennial vegetables or fruits?

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tips for awkward spots

Overwintering veggies inside

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permaculture

Breed your own Bacillus Thuringiensis!

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fruit trees

Quantity of neem oil and liquid fish

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soil

Interesting article on reasearch into soil biome, health and nutrition

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fruit trees

Beth's Apple Crop. A case for mechanical pruning

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soil

Antibiotics change carbon cycling

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trees

Suggestions for Nut Pine trees, Zone 7b, Piedmont?

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soil

List of Dr. RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads

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cover crops

Broadcasting in narrow spaces

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urban

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

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grains and pseudograins

Some Corny Questions

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fruit trees

My almond tree won't grow (heavy clay soil)

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permaculture

Regenerative Agroecology

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composting

Is lots of mycelium in the vermicompost bin ok?

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forest garden

Recommendations for guilds or companion plantings in a Fuyu persimmon orchard?

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composting

Composting Experiment

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composting

Things everyone should know about compost but probably don't

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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composting

Coffee grounds

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composting

Some things to know about manures when making compost

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hugelkultur

Hugel bed for flowers

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