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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

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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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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large farm

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?

56 replies 11 20

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?

37 replies 1 1

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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fruit trees

Cedar Apple Rust, Very Resistant

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permaculture

How do you harvest your tall fruit trees?

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plants

vegetables and fruits wildlife won't eat

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tips for awkward spots

Wicking beds for Texas can be different!

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trees

Selling Walnut wood?

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organic

Squash vine borers -- what can I do?

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biochar

Pyroligneous acid/ liquid smoke

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cover crops

deep rooting green manure / mulching plants

2 weeks ago 7 replies 2

composting

Best fungi for oak and hickory leaves

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composting

Oak Leaves and Citrus Greening

2 weeks ago 4 replies 2

plants

How to sell home grown turmeric?

2 weeks ago 9 replies 2

plants

Need some squash advice

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plants

Seed Starting - Soil Heat Ideas?

3 weeks ago 14 replies 5

composting

Look, Another FREE Resource from your local Farmers Market!

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composting

Lead in soil and composting: am I overthinking this?

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composting

Black Soldier Fly - Indoor Rearing

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forest garden

Let’s start a food forest

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forest garden

Transplanting Volunteer Trees and Bushes into the Food Forest

3 weeks ago 5 replies 1 4

fruit trees

back to freezing weather

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trees

Siberian Pea Tree aka Caragana Arborescens - Edible, but are they "good eats"?

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forest garden

Turning leaf collection business into a composting business?

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soil

Using Clam Shells as Mineralizer

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forest garden

Vines on birches; do they work?

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woodland

Fair price for ramps?

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permaculture

The Prime Goal of Permaculture

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hugelkultur

Cat/dog poo in hugel bed?

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mulch

Summer leaves turning yellow & falling after mulching with fresh wood chips

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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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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur, small branches, and the plants that thrive on it

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gardening for beginners

FREE Natural Raised Beds

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composting

Fancy worm composting cupboard/ compost tea brewer

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composting

Eisenia fetida... or not?

3 weeks ago 7 replies 2 1

gardening for beginners

Full Shade Edibles/Herbs

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fungi

Help identify?

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soil

Old ash from a wood stove

3 weeks ago 9 replies 1

composting

Waste decomposer (from India) Queries

3 weeks ago 2 replies

soil

Raised Bed Materials

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fruit trees

Transplanting/moving 2 year old apple trees this spring

3 weeks ago 5 replies 3

trees

Effectiveness of Food Forest Windbreaks?

3 weeks ago 1 reply 3 1

soil

Interesting Article about Worms

3 weeks ago 1 reply

forest garden

Webinar: Farming for Biodiversity: Designing Pollination Systems to Sustain Native Wildlife

3 weeks ago 1 reply

trees

Tree Id

3 weeks ago 1 reply 1 1

composting

Urban humanure

3 weeks ago 3 replies 1

soil

Soil for adding to the garden this year

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