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Seed saving, seed exchange, plant breeding, and propagation.

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Landrace Gardening

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'Going to Seed' seeds! Joseph Lofthouse's Landrace Seed Share group *UPDATE for 2026*

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Potato Onions from true seed - grow journal

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"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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Reed's Landrace Sweet Potatoes

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The purity of seed - what I realized at Seedy Saturday when I talked about kale

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Landrace and Heirlooms

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Seeds, seeds everywhere . . .

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dehybridizing hybrids - I invite you to join me

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Perennial sweet pea - wide cross to create edible perennial pea possible?

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is this gross? Gathering persimmon pits in animal poop?

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Saving your own seed

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Edible Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) - Buy, Sell & Trade

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Breeding Localized Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

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Free Sunflower Seeds - Will you help my son increase genetics?

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Seed starting hack...

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Stratification: Not my idea of a good time... unlesssss....

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how many years do your seeds last

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Squirrels ate my fava bean, and snow pea, seeds right away

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Treating seeds to kill disease

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The lost chapter—Community seed breeding.

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Improving your chances of growing an apple tree from a seed

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Potato seeds

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Opportunity For Kindness When Ordering Seeds

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Help me germinate some roselle hibiscus

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Where can I get sunchokes?

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Where to buy or trade Permaculture Seeds?

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Solanum pseudolulo anyone?

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Growing in biodegradible pots - mold on the side

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Does anyone know what non-woven fabric seedling bags are fulling biodegradable?

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all gone now! (several different varieties of corn seed to give away)

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How to sort your seeds ?

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are these flower buds or seeds forming on my purple sweet potato vine?

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Looking for Hannan Popbean

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Oikos Neosinte -- sweet corn + teosinte hybrid

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Seed starting hack...

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all gone now! (several different varieties of corn seed to give away)

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Judith's garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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apples

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Drying corn seed

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"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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Corn Variety: Bloody Butcher

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perennial vegetables

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landrace tobacco planting

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Dahlia landracing project in the far north of Scotland

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Solanum pseudolulo anyone?

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Adding endophytes to corn

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Stratification: Not my idea of a good time... unlesssss....

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I grew several chile pepper plants next to each other -- seed question

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Is there an open pollinated selection of candyland tomato?

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Direct Seeding Tomatoes in ~100 Frost Free Days without season extension

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Seeking more help in tracking down more historic crops to restore my community's past in Chicago.

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uk and ireland

Seed Share UK

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peaches

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trees

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All Things Apios Americana

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Intensive Corn Breeding

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Tummeric with pretty flowers

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flowers

no kernel in sunflower seeds...why?

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growing poppies from seed

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Sacks of Chili from Mexican Stores

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beans

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gardening for beginners

Crop rotation and permaculture

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Tanacetum annuum (blue tansy) Seeds

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I didn't know beans could get this big! Chance crosses in my pole dry bean landrace...

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Reed's Landrace Sweet Potatoes

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Offering a free proto-grex of cabbage seeds!

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