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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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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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woodland

Garden picture exchange!

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seeds and breeding

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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root crops

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

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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keyhole garden in summer drought

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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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large farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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plants

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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polyculture

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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urban gardening

My city farm

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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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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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gamcod

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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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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fruit trees

Peaches: An underrated fruit?

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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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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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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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

What is Compost?

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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soil

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

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fruit trees

Lemon tree mulch

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seeds and breeding

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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composting

Permies Poll: Do you compost at home?

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seeds and breeding

Soil blocks sans peat and coir

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composting

Permies Poll: How do you compost?

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flowers

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composting

the downsides of composting

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composting

what's the weirdest thing you have composted?

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energy crops

Coppice Species for Firewood

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composting

Composting Pet Waste

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composting

Tools for Composting

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gardening for beginners

Botched soil blocking

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gardening for beginners

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gardening for beginners

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fruit trees

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woodland

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plants

Planting comfrey to the field before the fruit trees?

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apples

comfrey for apple guild

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gardening for beginners

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soil

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energy crops

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market garden

Best Produce to Sell in Rural Areas?

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greening the desert

Planting Trees For Rain

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greening the desert

Can you make rain with permaculture?

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plants

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energy crops

Which are your preferred tree species to grow your own fuel forest?

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forest garden

Planting for resilience

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plants

Potential use for privet?

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plants

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grains and pseudograins

A Corny Question

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biochar

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hugelkultur

How to prepare Hugelkultur for spring.

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seeds and breeding

How to protect seeds and plants being planted in our greenhouses from critters this winter.

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perennial vegetables

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grains and pseudograins

Oikos Neosinte -- sweet corn + teosinte hybrid

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large farm

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soil

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cover crops

Cover Crop: Mung Bean

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cover crops

Massive turnips in cover crop

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur Forum Video Database

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permaculture

Voluntary Simplicity

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flowers

New Flowers Forum!

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plants

Which "weed" do you like the most?

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