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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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A lot about apples!

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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mulch

Garden picture exchange!

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women peeing outdoors

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perennial vegetables

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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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gardening for beginners

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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hugelkultur

keyhole garden in summer drought

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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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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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soil

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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fruit trees

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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gardening for beginners

victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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plants

neighborhood bamboo patch

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perennial vegetables

Perennials, the gift you can keep giving

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soil

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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propagation

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

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soil

raining non-stop

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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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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

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gardening for beginners

What is Compost?

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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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

Wind Blocks and Bird Deterrent

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how many years do your seeds last

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berries

Blackberry/raspberry polyculture

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fruit trees

Fruit Tree Guild understory spacing and Asparagus

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propagation

how does rhubarb sprout from a root section without a crown?

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hugelkultur

all commercial mulches are loaded with persistent herbicides

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small farm

small regenerative, sustainable farm - tree biomass

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plants

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gardening for beginners

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

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polyculture

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composting

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flowers

Revive Rose Garden

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plants

Please help with My chayote

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dynamic accumulators

Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids, Comfrey, and the Boraginaceae Family

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trees

growing Dwarf Moringa in pots

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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permaculture

A little help from my friend

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perennial vegetables

Long term food or healing plants for all times to come.

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plants

Nine-Star Broccoli -- Annual or Perennial?

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gardening for beginners

self watering bucket garden/hydroponics/first hugalculture raised beds

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soil

How close do nitrogen fixing plants need to be?

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gardening for beginners

Removing plastic when growing micro-greens

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flowers

Layering Tulip Bulbs in Pots for Longer Blooms

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hugelkultur

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permaculture

A Short Morning Tour of Willow Acre, Zone 6a, NE Indiana

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gardening for beginners

Using water with arsenic on my plants

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permaculture

what are you planting today? ( not just plants!)

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fruit trees

Can anyone tell me what's going on with these apple tree trunks? :).

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur resources WIKI

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gardening for beginners

What can I do with (surprise!) coco coir?

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Violas/Johnny Jump Ups

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biochar

Re-crunching your biochar

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peaches

Feral wild hardy peach

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gardening for beginners

Peat pots

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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lawn

permies vs. lawns?

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permaculture

Max yield vs long-term problems: is 50×50 cm too dense for hibiscus at scale?

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grapes

Can someone identify this grape vine?

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plants

Growing Mexican chayote (Sechium edule) in temperate climate

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hedges

Buffering land from road

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gardening for beginners

Radish seedlings not sprouting after 6 days zone 6a

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organic

Outsider research project: trying to understand the real paperwork pain of organic certification

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hugelkultur

Eucalyptus trees are unsuitable for Hügelkultur building material

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gardening for beginners

How to Grow Aloe Vera

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composting

Shredder for (sometimes) wet garden waste, not to chip wood

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