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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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What staple crops are you growing?

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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organic

Simple trellis for green beans

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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forest garden

Food forests, climate change, and who's going to eat!

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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organic

diatomaceous earth

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composting

the solutions are simple

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plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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plants

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

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greening the desert

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

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urban

anyone here make money from permaculture?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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plants

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

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trees

Planting Trees in Memory of Notre Dame

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forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

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soil

What the heck is Humus?

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permaculture

Building a Better World in your Backyard by Paul Wheaton and Shawn Klassen-Koop

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

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

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fungi

mushrooms, mosses and lichens (some to ID) from our hikes, home and other places in the Ozarks

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forest garden

What's your favorite native/wild fruit to harvest and eat?

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gardening for beginners

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

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berries

Growing Blueberries Naturally with No Irrigation and No Pruning

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gardening for beginners

Favorite easy ways to make garden beds? Here's mine using mulch and potatoes!

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forest garden

Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

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composting

Superworms for bioremediation of polystyrene: ideas for extending the (re)processing?

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forest garden

Rewilding your homestead to create a wild homestead

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woodland

Creating an Oak forest

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plants

Are any Canadians interested in growing cotton?

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gardening for beginners

Changing your mindset around watering

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hugelkultur

chicken down hugel up

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permaculture

A Stupid Fantasy or a Calling? Please help!

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tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

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forest garden

Need advice on planting around a huge dead felled pine tree

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gardening for beginners

Squirrels digging everything up, peach leaf curl and dying blueberry

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fruit trees

I'm looking for scion/cuttings for my small farm & local scion fairs in the Eugene, Oregon area

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trees

Did you know about the pine tree? And what is the best climate for pine trees?

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soil

Terra Preta and Crude Oil

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permaculture

How to use living bacteria (EM) as bio-fertilizer

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plants

[Wanted] Looking for Mashua (Anu) in New Zealand

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berries

Which elderberry variety?

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plants

Plants where all of it is edible

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permaculture

Creating rock and log piles to deal with garden pests

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fruit trees

Air Layering question - How old will my new tree be?

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plants

ISO perennial vegetables for Zone 8a

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biochar

DIY char grinder for biochar

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fungi

Maybe nature is the solution

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plants

Native prof: Don't fight invasive plants

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fruit trees

Permaculture Orchard: South Georgia Style -To interplant, or to monoculture

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organic

Natures Pride fertilizer

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hugelkultur

Hugelkulture in wetland/floodplain. Is there such a thing as TOO much water?

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permaculture

I've discovered a big problem with mini Kraters

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trees

Creating an Oak forest

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fruit trees

Is this normal for a peach tree?

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composting

Keyhole Gardens and Composting for Beginners - Please help explain!

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soil

Colloidal silver as a soil ammendment

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gardening for beginners

Gardens for Chickens!

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gardening for beginners

Can sweet potatoes and sunchokes be planted together?

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plants

Bulbs in prime zone 1 garden spot

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cover crops

Cover crop help and advice for new project in Sicily

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greening the desert

Maintaining tools in the desert

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permaculture

Killefer Subsoiler, hard clay

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fruit trees

What trees and shrubs have you had success air layering?

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organic

destroying bermuda/crab grass

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soil

No Till

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Breeding for Dry Farming

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plants

Plants and Trees with Beautiful Fall Leaf Colors

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soil

Question on the lateral movement of earthworms and soil life

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composting

Fastest growing wood for composting

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fruit trees

Help Id a Mulberry

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biochar

Does anyone else make Bone Char?

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fruit trees

Viable For Cuttings?

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hugelkultur

Water Retention in Hugel on Slab

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plants

Comfrey and Winter

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biochar

galvanized retort 1st burn. can I use?

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urban

Non electric ceiling fans- belt driven- perpetual motion

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fruit trees

Peach pruning help

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Looking for Yacon tubers EUROPE

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