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hugelkultur

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organic

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

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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Preserving ginger root for replanting?

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fungi

red-chanterelles-cantharellus-cinnabarinus

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forest garden

hedge in zone 6/eastern WA

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plants

How resilient to traffic is true comfrey?

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fruit trees

Do you prefer your fruit sweet, sour, or with a balanced flavor?

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gardening for beginners

Light Spectrum - How it effects your plants

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gardening for beginners

plant ID help

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fruit trees

More talk about Growing Degree Days, less about USDA zones/minimum temperature

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soil

Soil Mineralization Recipe?

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fruit trees

Species/cultivar pollination matrix?

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Seed sites in the eu

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fungi

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soil

How Growing Plants builds soil health

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urban

Vegie patch 2.0

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soil

looking for insight into making soil in the cold climates

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fruit trees

Protecting young trees from extreme cold

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soil

Chicken house clearings

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plants

Can pots made from wood ash be used to grow plants ?

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fruit trees

Creating microclimate for fig tree

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

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soil

Creating and maintaining great soil on a smaller scale

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plants

Anybody Grow Gilfeather Turnips?

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fungi

Am I able to grow button mushrooms in my garden?

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soil

A soil Owners Manual

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soil

Solarization

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Tereza's 2019-2020 summer garden (southern hem)

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permaculture

Continuity of Operations in Permaculture

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soil

Fertilizing & soil building in winter

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fungi

picking season

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urban

Edible Landscaping

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composting

Kombucha compostables

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soil

Seed mix for building soil, on thin soil and rock

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seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Any Sarpo Mira Potato Sources In The USA?

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soil

What to do with sandy, northern soils?

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hugelkultur

Weed grass on my hugel

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soil

Need to improve soil in newly constructed hugelculture

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plants

Haskap and juglone

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soil

I've got worms

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flowers

Wildflower of the week

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soil

BEST Cheapest soil Fixes for growing food

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plants

Seed starting for this years garden

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plants

Collards in the Median

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woodland

best wood for a wooden spoon

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fruit trees

flowering peaches in late winter

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plants

bush cherry questions

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