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Garden picture exchange!

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women peeing outdoors

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What is a fair price per acre for land?

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Simple trellis for green beans

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

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forest garden

The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook by Anne Stobart

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trees

Cacao sunlight??

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permaculture

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gardening for beginners

Expanding existing garden -- best/easiest way to prep

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Soak before stratifying outside?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

What's your favorite way to clean messy seeds?

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trees

Helping Trees Heal Large Old Wounds- Tree Pouches

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

[Wanted] Cassava Butterstick / Butter Stick

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soil

Sheet Mulch with moldy cardboard

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grains and pseudograins

Growing Zizania aquatica?

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trees

Mother to seed grafting

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Breeding Localized Varieties of Sweet Potatoes

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plants

Baby plant wiki

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plants

Erosion Control Plant

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plants

Plants with lesser known perennial habits

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carbon farming

Went to a big ag farm conference and found...

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gardening for beginners

New Plot! Help?!

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gardening for beginners

Europe - Seed and permaculture plant company

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plants

did anyone have a bumper crop of luffas this year that they would like to sell?

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plants

Haskap berry plants and Honeysuckles

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urban

Small livestock in urban/suburban homesteads

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fungi

Best books and websites on mushroom growing

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organic

sunken bed sheet mulching

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gardening for beginners

Growing asafoetida and using it as deer repellent

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composting

Onsite Compost Systems

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berries

Why I don't prune my blueberries

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composting

Can you make decent compost in these plastic bins?

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trees

Need to buy trees for spring planting? Treetime.ca is having a sale...

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market garden

Seeking advice on attached greenhouse - Bioshelter Market Garden or Secret Greenhouse of Survival?

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trees

Is Chinaberry tree (Texas umbrella) a nitrogen fixer?

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grains and pseudograins

Can barley plants support pea vines

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pasture

Pasture Recommendations? N. Florida

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organic

Let's collaborate & share SOIL TINCTURES - what's your favourite?

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soil

Recycling old potting soil

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berries

Get Free Blueberry Plants from Existing Bushes!

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woodland

Ostrich fern and ramps sources?

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gardening for beginners

Beans kale peas and beets

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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plants

Why I love lupines

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fruit trees

Blooming in January

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composting

Coffee grounds

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trees

Propagation into trunks of mature trees

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