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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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forest garden

Garden picture exchange!

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trees

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

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seeds and breeding

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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soil

women peeing outdoors

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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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root crops

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

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beans

Cooking with Dry Beans and Peas

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plants

What staple crops are you growing?

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plants

Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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lawn

how do you change your grass ph without new soil

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greening the desert

keyhole garden in summer drought

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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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polyculture

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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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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large farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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trees

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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soil

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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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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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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organic

Help with non plastic raised bed liner

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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

What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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permaculture

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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greening the desert

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

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urban gardening

Plot 5: a new urban Community garden

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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trees

Anyone got avocado tree experience?

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house plants

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pears

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biochar

Biochar: Best for soil vs. Last 1000 years

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biochar

Does Biochar hold water?

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greening the desert

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biochar

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hugelkultur

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urban gardening

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fungi

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pears

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permaculture

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dynamic accumulators

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gardening for beginners

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lawn

What are the advantages grasses carry in the permaculture setting.

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gardening for beginners

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house plants

Can Indoor Plants Support Sustainable Living at Home?

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hugelkultur

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plants

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perennial vegetables

Perennial bean breeding progress at Oikos!

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fungi

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lawn

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fruit trees

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fruit trees

Planting in stumps?

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alliums

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urban gardening

Jchokes in sub-irrigated buckets

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gardening for beginners

Crop rotation and permaculture

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permaculture

Growing azolla in an aquarium with water and wood ash. Forcing it to fix nitrogen from the air!

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fruit trees

Saving a leaning apple tree

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plants

Are you growing a new vegetable this year?

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fungi

I’d like to know all the different wood chips I can use for Wine Cap production.

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lawn

reel mower?

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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gardening for beginners

New herb garden behind house

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fungi

My first mushroom attempt

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composting

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fruit trees

Cherry Problems

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gardening for beginners

What are your earliest vegetables?

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plants

How to create my own fertilizer for corn?

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gardening for beginners

How to water a veggie garden

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grains and pseudograins

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