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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?

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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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soil

Soil for adding to the garden this year

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gardening for beginners

Cement blocks for raised edges

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composting

composted manures vs composted wood

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soil

Worms a bad thing? Jumping Worms invading

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composting

The great worm castings tea debate

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plants

Can you wash off the chemicals on store bought potatoes so they would grow?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Cultivariable Participatory Plant Breeding Projects for 2020

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trees

Planting trees in pasture advice.

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organic

Hydroponics test -- big Kratky barrel with eggshell, ash, and urine

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woodland

All things Black Locust

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greening the desert

Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Middle of Egyptian Desert

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forest garden

Adding Honey Locust and Siberian Pea to established Orchard - on the path to a forest garden

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fungi

Loving lichens

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fruit trees

What fruit trees produce fastest?

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woodland

Paulownia or Empress Splendor tree for Coastal British Columbia and Washington

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fruit trees

Picking Persimmons With Tommy

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fruit trees

Feedback on structure for growing Citrus in Zone 6A

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organic

Incredible, Amazing....Leaf Mold

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greening the desert

The amazing attributes of the tasty edible Spineless Nopal Cactus

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mulch

Mulching guinea grass

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fungi

Some help for a mushroom newbie

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composting

What to do with tuna heads?

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trees

LF M27 Apple Rootstock

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forest garden

Planning a food forest...with black walnut?

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biochar

Putting waste material on your biochar

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composting

Human urine as fertilizer

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biochar

biochar and sorghum syrup question

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fungi

How aggressive are wine cap mushrooms?

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fruit trees

Thoughts on multi-fruit tree grafting

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plants

New garden fertilizer question

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hugelkultur

Use of pallet hardwood boards

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composting

Composting in the city

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soil

Where is the best place to get soil tests done?

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soil

Soil-less Souls

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fruit trees

Growing Cider Apples--Advice Needed

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composting

Ever heard of Bio Sync? Ultimate cascading compost fertility engine?

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soil

Raised garden Beds

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fungi

Need help with blue oyster mushrooms

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plants

Learning New Trick for Growing Ginger Indoors During the Winter

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market garden

Irrigation water amount for a market garden

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permaculture

Film Review: "Gracie's Backyard" by Olivier Asselin & Possible.org

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trees

Help! I'm buried in trees!!!

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composting

vermicompost - do the results justify the time and expense

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perennial vegetables

Grow perennial brassicas!

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trees

New tree planting for coppice

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