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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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mulch

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?

78 replies 3 5

organic

Simple trellis for green beans

83 replies 1 13 3

permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

438 replies 7 13 21

forest garden

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

186 replies 2 7 23

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Harvesting seeds from your groceries

177 replies 17 43

plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

156 replies 11 51 37

organic

diatomaceous earth

262 replies 1 12 6

composting

the solutions are simple

227 replies 13 9 52

plants

Fava Beans - more than just beans

127 replies 30 25

large farm

anyone here make money from permaculture?

296 replies 4 14 26

plants

Prickly Pear are the perfect permaculture plant for parched places

137 replies 2 33 19

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Promiscuous auto-hybridizing tomatoes

132 replies 105 31

organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

88 replies 1 33 25

greening the desert

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

36 replies 7 51

forest garden

Pics from Greg's Forest Garden

82 replies 46 26

soil

What the heck is Humus?

88 replies 1 34

permaculture

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

12 14 89

fungi

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

38 replies 1 104 18

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

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

46 replies 4 21

fruit trees

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

61 replies 11 33

gardening for beginners

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

87 replies 6 15

berries

Growing Blueberries Naturally with No Irrigation and No Pruning

46 replies 4 16 22

gardening for beginners

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

31 replies 23 17

forest garden

Need advice on starting a tropical food forest

77 replies 1 6 14

gardening for beginners

Rewilding your homestead to create a wild homestead

44 replies 11 18

woodland

Creating an Oak forest

64 replies 3 103 11

permaculture

A Stupid Fantasy or a Calling? Please help!

59 replies 32

plants

Are any Canadians interested in growing cotton?

37 replies 1 1

hugelkultur

chicken down hugel up

30 replies 35 17

tips for awkward spots

Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

30 replies 17 11

large farm

Starting a Tropical Piggery

46 replies 10 14

gardening for beginners

Let's get started saving vegetable seeds

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gardening for beginners

The art of maximizing potato harvest

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permaculture

Living fence to stop a brown bear

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fruit trees

How do you label your fruit trees?

4 days ago 7 replies 4

fruit trees

Banana Circle Pond?

4 days ago 4 replies

gardening for beginners

Timing your garden for pickling/canning

4 days ago 11 replies 1

fruit trees

Mulberry

4 days ago 7 replies 1 1

soil

How I'm filling my 8' X 4' raised beds.

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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soil

Reading 'Weeds' as Indicators of Soil Conditions

4 days ago 8 replies 1

gardening for beginners

Orientation of raised garden beds in respect to SUN 🌞

4 days ago 20 replies 1 4

fruit trees

[wanted] Improved Meyer lemon seeds - Norway

4 days ago 6 replies

fruit trees

Organic wild Apple juice..

5 days ago 4 replies 1 1

pasture

How do I seed an existing pasture without uprooting the soil?

5 days ago 35 replies 1 7 5

fruit trees

recommendations to top graft an Asian Pear

5 days ago 5 replies 5 3

fungi

critique my plan for indoor year-round oyster mushroom cultivation

5 days ago 6 replies 2 2

plants

Studio Jasmine plant

5 days ago 3 replies 4 1

composting

2 yard of fresh cow manure

5 days ago 2 replies

forest garden

Silvopasture Newbie Question

6 days ago 5 replies 2 4

plants

Is any one growing dates ( Phoenix dactylifera ) ?

6 days ago 2 replies

plants

Right genus/wrong species and "invasives" (Amorpha canescens)

6 days ago 2 replies 3

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Wide hybridization between different species/genera

6 days ago 25 replies 5 2

soil

Can I use charcoal in my garden somehow?

6 days ago 1 reply

soil

Help for evergreen tree that appears to be leaning

6 days ago 3 replies

soil

Using Hamra Sandy Loam Soil For A Nursery (And Filling Lots of Growbags)

6 days ago 1 reply

biochar

Making and using biochar, results too!

6 days ago 19 replies 2 6 4

permaculture

managing overgrown weed jungle

6 days ago 6 replies 4

tips for awkward spots

Black Walnut vs Nanking Cherry

6 days ago 2 replies

grains and pseudograins

Sourcing perennial grains?

6 days ago 0 replies

forest garden

Water management on a new plot

6 days ago 2 replies 1 2

small farm

I'm looking for a video about a high yield grower

1 week ago 0 replies

fruit trees

Interesting research on chill hours

1 week ago 0 replies

hugelkultur

Symphylans in my Hugelkultur beds

1 week ago 9 replies

trees

My tree planting journey

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soil

Terrace with heavy compaction

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mulch

Strawberries in wood chips

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urban

Guerrilla growing in town

1 week ago 5 replies 1

plants

The Wonderful World of Succulents - Any Advice?

1 week ago 9 replies 4

soil

small permaculture farm start-up in senegal needs help

1 week ago 4 replies 6

berries

Looking for Rubus neomexicanus and R. Trilobus

1 week ago 6 replies

seed saving / exchange / plant breeding

Bean Breeding? Scarlet runner X common bean

1 week ago 8 replies 3 1

plants

Low-power grow lights/ incubator

1 week ago 4 replies 3

plants

Thyme propagation technique.to make mini-hedges.

1 week ago 7 replies 7 6

fruit trees

when to repot cuttings

1 week ago 3 replies 2

perennial vegetables

my plan to breed a perennial brassica

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trees

Do Willows grow from cuttings?

1 week ago 16 replies 3 4

plants

growing apples from seeds vs. cloning

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