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Landrace Gardening

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Breeding for dew collection, or my experiments with dryland farming

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Potato Onions from true seed - grow journal

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

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Warning about zucchini toxicity and not eating things that taste horribly bitter

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Reed's Landrace Sweet Potatoes

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"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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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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The official permies.com Seed and Plant Source Review Grid

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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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Breeding Localized Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

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

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All Things Apios Americana

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Beans evolutive mix

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

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how many years do your seeds last

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Seed starting hack...

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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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Help me germinate some roselle hibiscus

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Where can I get sunchokes?

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Corn

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How Long Do You Keep or How Do You Keep Seeds?

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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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Broadcast sowing + Miyawaki Forest Method for Herbs, Shrubs, and Grasses?

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Looking for Hannan Popbean

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Hard to Save Seeds in cold climates

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Australian Seed Sources

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McDonald's Tomatoes Grown In a Backyard

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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Seed starting hack...

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gardening for beginners

Crop rotation and permaculture

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Two generations of fava selection (weevil resistance, fungal resistance etc.)

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Heirloom and rare seeds exchange/trade? Anyone?

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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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When does your horseradish flower? Have you ever seen it make good horseradish seed?

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

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house plants

What are good plants to grow for edible sprouting seeds?

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Dahlia landracing project in the far north of Scotland

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pears

Growing Pear Trees from Seed Naturally

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Apios Americana

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propagation

Garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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Improving your chances of growing an apple tree from a seed

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Reed's Landrace Sweet Potatoes

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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Seed storage desiccants

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Amazing Beans

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beans

Fava vs Broad Vs lima vs butter beans :-)

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grains and pseudograins

Oikos Neosinte -- sweet corn + teosinte hybrid

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Year of the volunteers

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Tanacetum annuum (blue tansy) Seeds

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Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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help me think out where to go with my corn

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pumpkin/squash beginner

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Peru veggies

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All Things Apios Americana

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energy crops

Perennial oil seed crops

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Perennial head cabbage?

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how many years do your seeds last

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landrace tobacco planting

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Potato seeds

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perennial vegetables

Kentucky Coffee Tree Seeds

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peaches

Growing Peach Trees from Seed Naturally

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Solanum pseudolulo anyone?

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frugality

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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assessing viablity

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

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McDonald's Tomatoes Grown In a Backyard

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A lecture called Plant breeding on Nature's terms (or permaculture friendly maize)

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Sunroots For Sale: Genetically diverse. Prolifically Seeding.

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trees

List of tree species that grow true to type/parent from seed

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Seed Starter Kits - never again

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