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Photos of Joseph Lofthouse's Garden

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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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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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seeds and breeding

Fava Beans - more than just beans

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perennial vegetables

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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gardening for beginners

Free Seeds! How to harvest seeds from your groceries

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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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plants

Simple trellis for green beans

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seeds and breeding

Profoundly Promiscuous and Totally Tasty Tomato Project

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large farm

What is a fair price per acre for land?

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

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polyculture

Restoring soil structure and simple farming in a wet climate

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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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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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composting

Are keyhole gardens really permanent?

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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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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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grains and pseudograins

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

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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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propagation

How to keep seeds warm - permie ideas please!

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gardening for beginners

What is Compost?

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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gardening for beginners

Weird thought: Is BIGGER better?

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soil

What is potash?

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Plants where all of it is edible

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plants

The Potato Method...does it work for more than roses?

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composting

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flowers

Permies Poll: How many rose bushes do you have?

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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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root crops

Is anyone growing Chufa/Tiger Nuts? Eating them?

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fruit trees

Sea Buckthorn (Sea berries) A Super food

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fruit trees

Can anyone tell me what's going on with these apple tree trunks? :).

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biochar

My biochar production tally thread.

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gardening for beginners

I Think Something Is Bugging My Cactus

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gardening for beginners

What would you plant in your roadside ditch?

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hugelkultur

Homesteading Hopeful Hugel Build 1st

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hugelkultur

I did it wrong. How can I fix it?

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gardening for beginners

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fungi

Show me your fungus.

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potatoes

Permies' Potato experiments

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house plants

Plants in my house make me happy! Mental well-being through rewilding the house

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seeds and breeding

Amazing Beans

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composting

Fire ants in compost bin

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Are seedlings as delicate as we are told?

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flowers

anybody eat nasturtium?

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gardening for beginners

Squash identification help please?

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plants

Fatalistic Fennel?

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plants

Backyard Food pump plants !!!!

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biochar

Making biochar with oyster and coconut shells

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seeds and breeding

Year of the volunteers

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permaculture

Quote on indigenous food systems by Lyla June Johnston + commentary

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gardening for beginners

Advice needed on weeding and cover cropping, garden bed maintenance

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gardening for beginners

Three Sisters Year 4

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composting

New compost bed, what to grow?

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composting

Dog poop makes rich compost

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gardening for beginners

Organic/Safe(?) weed killers - any recommendations?

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composting

Permies Poll: Do you compost at home?

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lawn

Permies Poll: How do you mow your lawn?

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composting

questions about collecting seagrass and seaweed for soil building

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house plants

spider mites must die! Organic and better solutions to spider mites on houseplants and plants.

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plants

free LED plant grow lights

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hugelkultur

Feedback Wanted: The Grow-Cano

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perennial vegetables

a rhubarb harvest technique to get more rhubarb per year

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nuts

Stunted Chinese Chestnut Trees

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forest garden

where to start?

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soil

Plastic in soil

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seeds and breeding

"Seed-snail" testing thread, 2025

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fruit trees

Peach Tree Guilds

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