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fruit trees

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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trees

raising silkmoths (silkworms) - Sericulture, Moriculture, and the wild ones

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mulch

Garden picture exchange!

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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root crops

The great big thread of sunchoke info - growing, storing, eating/recipes, science facts

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Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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composting

keyhole garden in summer drought

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beans

Simple trellis for green beans

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small farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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greening the desert

Reforestation - Growing trees in arid, barren lands - by Seeds and Clay cubes (no watering)

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forest garden

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

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permaculture

garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Garden year 3, 2025

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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gardening for beginners

Is growing your own food a waste of time?

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vines

How did medieval peasants do it?

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house plants

Monstera, to slice or save?

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urban gardening

My city farm

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plants

What new plant will you try in 2025?

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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flowers

Euptoieta claudia - Variegated Fritillary...caterpillar and chrysalis and now a butterfly emerged!

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urban gardening

Homesteading in Cities

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gardening for beginners

Do you 'refresh' your garden every year?

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gamcod

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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peaches

Sprouting seeds for peach trees

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small farm

How to get the most out of small acreage?

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soil

What is potash?

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berries

American Elderberry, cut to the ground every year? Biomass bonanza?

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gardening for beginners

How could a Permie deal with Voles?

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soil

please share ideas for growing BIG sweet potatoes, several pounds per plant

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lawn

Lawnmower alternatives

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trees

Fall Leaves! Uses?

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peaches

Peaches: An underrated fruit?

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mulch

Leaf drop

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seeds and breeding

Alternatives for Cold Stratification?

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gardening for beginners

Zone 5B Guilderland NY - best time and seeds to plant in new garden early

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potatoes

Growing Potatoes in a Bag

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plants

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potatoes

Apartment Growing Potato methods

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fruit trees

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apples

Value of crab apple?

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Rocks in the garden

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fungi

How to Identify Turkey Tail Mushrooms

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plants

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organic

permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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Another Interesting Video

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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potatoes

Potato growing in containers on a patio?

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peaches

Ideas for Peaches

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fungi

Myco-remediation? Any success stories?

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propagation

blackcurrant propagation pruning and medicine harvesting

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plants

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propagation

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peaches

To kill a peach tree.

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trees

Seedling Identification

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gardening for beginners

Why the duck cant I grow carrots!!!

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fruit trees

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hugelkultur

grow double the food with one tenth of the effort in cold climates - hugelkultur

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polyculture

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hugelkultur

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur resources WIKI

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gardening for beginners

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house plants

Houseplants for People who can't grow houseplants!

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permaculture

Can anyone comment on regular "animal" permaculture" versus "veganic" permaculture ??

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lawn

How to change minds - one lawn at a time!

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seeds and breeding

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

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greening the desert

China Reintroduced Extinct Wild Horses Into the Desert — 5 Years Later Everything Changed

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trees

tree identification and care help

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grains and pseudograins

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seeds and breeding

Seed starting hack...

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biochar

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propagation

Grafting known fruit varieties onto wild root stock.

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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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beans

botched bean saving

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trees

How do you prompt a tree to drop some/most leaves?

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