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What staple crops are you growing?

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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beans

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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root crops

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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greening the desert

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

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forest garden

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gardening for beginners

3 Sisters Garden, 2024, Year 2

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permaculture

freaky cheap gardening movie project - 200 square feet on YOUR property

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fruit trees

where can I get the grafting drill bit that makes a hole the same shape and size as a pencil?

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gamcod

Getting ready for GAMCOD-(ish) in Portugal

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gardening for beginners

Help me figure out what to do with excess young garlic

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hugelkultur

Permies Poll: Do you currently have a Hugel?

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gamcod

Walking Squirrel Farm GAMCOD

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perennial vegetables

Testing how alleopathic sunroots are

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plants

When NOT to plant comfrey

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gardening for beginners

Cross Pollination and Seed Saving?

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gamcod

how to prove that you are starting with dirt

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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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gamcod

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gamcod

GAMCOD Poll: Do you plan to participate?

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seeds and breeding

Can you sprout split peas? - Yes!

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gamcod

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gardening for beginners

Who is going to get their hands dirty this weekend?

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gamcod

Vegetable Calories

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root crops

Lets talk about Skirret!

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biochar

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composting

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flowers

James' Bloom Scroll

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gamcod

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trees

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gardening for beginners

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permaculture

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forest garden

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hugelkultur

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apples

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greening the desert

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plants

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forest garden

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fruit trees

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biochar

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biochar

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biochar

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composting

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