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Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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diatomaceous earth

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Fava Beans - more than just beans

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plants

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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composting

the solutions are simple

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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clay soil

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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trees

Weekly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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forest garden

What's your favorite native/wild fruit to harvest and eat?

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

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gardening for beginners

Yes, you may

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fungi

mushrooms, mosses and lichens (some to ID) from our hikes, home and other places in the Ozarks

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hugelkultur

chicken down hugel up

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gardening for beginners

Cultivating abundance in uncertain times

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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soil

All the Great Things about Wood Chips

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permaculture

A Stupid Fantasy or a Calling? Please help!

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trees

Creating an Oak forest

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plants

FREE Natural Raised Beds

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gardening for beginners

Gardening while watching a small child

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Why don't more people save seeds?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Thoughts on Seed Saving with Joseph Lofthouse!

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tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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plants

One Solution to the Crisis: Landrace Everything

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perennial vegetables

11 Cold-hardy perennial vegetables

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soil

Fill soil

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composting

What worms go in a Johnson Su Bioreactor

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fungi

I found Toad! Now if I could just find Mario, Luigi, and Peach!

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berries

Growing Blueberries Naturally

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plants

Is this siberian pea shrub?

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fruit trees

Growing Peaches Naturally

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gardening for beginners

Need advice. I think I just made a huge mistake...

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permaculture

looking for design/build help, Skamania Washington

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trees

Is this a pecan, walnut or something else?

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plants

Caucasian mountain spinach

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propagation

Grafting Asian Pear onto Hawthorne and Mountain Ash

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composting

Why not a compost roller?

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gardening for beginners

Help me find out what's wrong here

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soil

Alkaline soil, things don't grow -- What should I do?

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gardening for beginners

Where do runner beans grow on the plant?

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plants

Growing Cucumbers Naturally

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Rewilding your homestead to create a wild homestead

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Growing Lettuce Naturally

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Something's the matter with these peppers. Opinions?

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forest garden

Weekly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur with freshly cut tree

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gardening for beginners

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Collecting Self Heal/All Heal (prunella vulgaris) seeds to spread as a living mulch and groundcover

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berries

Blueberries- Favorite Uses, Recipes, and Preservation

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composting

Any way to de-seed my wormcastings?

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trees

Chinese Che fruit tree (can be grafted onto Osage Orange)

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gardening for beginners

Growing bamboo for garden canes

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composting

Is a compost tumbler recommended?

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soil

Do weeds rob soil of nutrients?

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composting

A new faster composting idea

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forest garden

New Food Forest plant list for USDA Hardiness Zones 8-10

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permaculture

Permaculture hacks that work

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fruit trees

What is wrong with my persimmon tree

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berries

Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote (and other labor intensive earthworks)

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mulch

How much comfrey does one need?

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composting

combining compost with worm farming: first compost then wormfarm

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lawn

Welcome Owen Wormser, Author of Lawns into Meadows

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fruit trees

Does anyone here have experience with these apple tree varieties from Georgia?

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fungi

Reishi ? Maybe not?

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small farm

North Idaho Farm for rent Dec 1, 2018

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Growing Apple Trees from Seed Naturally

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fruit trees

Cherry Tree Help

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fungi

Beet leaf looks burned--was perfect this morning!

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Vining Yellow Crookneck squash

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