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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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organic

Permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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fruit trees

A lot about apples!

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hugelkultur

Paul Wheaton's hugelkultur article thread

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perennial vegetables

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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beans

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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beans

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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plants

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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gardening for beginners

Victory Gardens! How-to, what to grow, and so much more!

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seeds and breeding

Landrace Gardening

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permaculture

Is anyone really doing permaculture?

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composting

composting wood chips with chicken litter and fungi

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propagation

Garden plans, records, results, hopes.....

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hugelkultur

Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!

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gardening for beginners

Ideas for Trellis Gardening

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forest garden

Monthly Food Forest Tours! Let's create a food forest together!

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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gardening for beginners

Victory gardens, 2026 version: what are your plans?

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grains and pseudograins

Geoff Lawton says grain is not really worth the while - what are your thoughts?

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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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composting

Ways to combat higher fertilizer prices and sustaining ourselves in the long run.

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plants

neighborhood bamboo patch

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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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perennial vegetables

Perennials, the gift you can keep giving

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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root crops

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

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soil

raining non-stop

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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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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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gardening for beginners

What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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permaculture

When was the last time you gave a garden tour?

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composting

What is Compost?

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propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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fruit trees

Stone fruit trees and fungicide

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beans

why aren't my scarlet runner beans setting beans?

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fruit trees

Solstice traditions?

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seeds and breeding

Source for Perennial Wheat

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organic

Is Dr. Bronner's Castile soap harmful to soil life?

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plants

All about orach - a fantastic vegetable for your garden

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fruit trees

How many fruit trees and bushes for a family of four?

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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fungi

Keeping moisture on mushroom logs

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gardening for beginners

Grocery Prices Growing New Gardeners?

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plants

edibility of honey locust leaves/pods

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woodland

Morels

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propagation

Outdoor low-tek passive propagation squares, a simple solution for massive propagation on north side

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cover crops

Small cover crop experiment.Parsnip, cow peas, sunflower, fennel, silphy, salsify

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trees

Growing Black Pomegranate Fruit

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gardening for beginners

Passive seed-starting

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propagation

Inventing the perfect seed starting trays (?)

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plants

HELP!!! How do I get rid of nut grass/nut sedge???

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dynamic accumulators

Potassium bioaccumulator plants in the Pacific Northwest

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biochar

Biochar: Best for soil vs. Last 1000 years

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pasture

Observations on creating silvopasture

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composting

Small space composting

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soil

Clay cat litter

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composting

will Compost happen in the winter?

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apples

Growing Apple Trees From Seed Naturally

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plants

Plant ID - originally thinking Sweet Cicely then Dwarf Ginseng

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fruit trees

Grape black rot

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hugelkultur

7 foot tall hugelkultur with a fifth of the effort

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hugelkultur

Hugelkultur resources WIKI

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permaculture

What’s the most unexpectedly useful thing growing on your property right now?

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alliums

Green Mountain multiplier onions

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plums

Best tasting European Plums

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grapes

black rot in southeast

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permaculture

Permaculture principles and methods

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permaculture

what are you planting today? ( not just plants!)

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hugelkultur

Hugelpots : buried wood pot culture

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berries

Strawberry Obelisk - Design Feedback

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organic

Permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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urban gardening

Jchokes in sub-irrigated buckets

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soil

Raw eggs as fertilizer?

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gardening for beginners

Radish seedlings not sprouting after 6 days zone 6a

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seeds and breeding

Seed starting hack...

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permaculture

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

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