Food Plants – Annual
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Four of our Favourite Plants with Edible Flowers
During this post, we’re going to take a look at a few of our favourite plants with edible flowers. Most…
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The Essential Guide to Probably Everything you Need to Know about Growing Persimmon
Highly regarded in Eastern culture for thousands of years, the Persimmon has rightly so started to gain more appreciation in…
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How to Use Your Fresh Culinary Herbs
I’m a huge fan of the herb garden right outside the kitchen door, as well as dotting herbs throughout vegetable…
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Rice Will Grow in the Mountains of North Carolina
I grew up in Louisiana, and we have a culture centred on rice. Cajun dishes—chicken and okra gumbo, crawfish etouffee,…
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Foraging for Chanterelles
One of my favourite parts, and there are many, about foraging food is that some things can only be grown…
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How to Design and Build A Forest Garden – Part 1. Surveying
Last Autumn we tried out a new course format, the “Design ‘n Build”, an intensive practical course where we go…
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The Polyculture Market Garden Study – Results from Year 4 – 2018
Here are the results from the fourth year of our Market Garden Polyculture Study. This study looks at the differences…
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Fastest Growing Trees in the Temperate Zone, Seed Harvesting and a Green Toad Gathering – The Polyculture Project
If you follow our project you will probably know that I like to name our gardens after concepts and terminology…
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Growing Grains at the Home-Scale Farm
I dream of growing grains, of being so far down the line in establishing a kitchen garden, a vegetable garden,…
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The Results – A Trial Looking at 5 Ways to Prepare Beds for Tree and Shrub Planting – Which one is the best?
Last year we started a trial to discover the best ways to prepare the ground for tree and shrub planting.…
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Horseradish: Why I Should Try It Again
Earlier this year, in the spring, I was able to acquire a handful of horseradish roots to plant in a…
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How to Start an Urban Farm
Like any new venture, starting an urban farm is a daunting and difficult task. Not only do you have to…
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