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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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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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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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root crops

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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forest garden

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

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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

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my garden plans, sort of...

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gardening for beginners

Help me figure out what to do with excess young garlic

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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plants

What new plant will you try in 2025?

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organic

Testing how alleopathic sunroots are

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seeds and breeding

Can you sprout split peas? - Yes!

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gardening for beginners

Tomato death. Need to know why

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gardening for beginners

I have declared war on Bambi

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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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Composting Bags of Flour

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plants

Gas powered flower pest

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root crops

Can we make sugar from skirret root?

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small farm

How much do you produce - growing all of your food

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root crops

Welcome to the new root crops forum!!

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nuts

Almond are the first flower of spring - Van Gogh's almond blossoms

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forest garden

Your biggest forest garden lessons?

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Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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trees

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lawn

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fruit trees

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propagation

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biochar

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permaculture

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biochar

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composting

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fruit trees

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forest garden

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fungi

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fungi

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permaculture

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trees

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root crops

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trees

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flowers

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permaculture

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biochar

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berries

Blackberry Flavor

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soil

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fruit trees

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soil

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organic

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fungi

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soil

Railroad Soil Reclamation

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fruit trees

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plants

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biochar

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