Food Plants
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Design
Designing a Small Forest Garden
I really think that your small garden can be a forest garden, because to be a forest garden is more…
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Plants
Herbs of Zaytuna – Aloe Vera
So here we are, on the Zaytuna Farm Herb Tour. We met Yarrow here and after him, the most multi-functional plant…
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Insects
The battle against bugs: it’s time to end chemical warfare
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Lizzy Lowe, Macquarie University;…
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Plants
Ramps: Saving Our Wild Edibles
Since moving to North Carolina a couple of years ago—my, how time flies—Emma and I have developed a minor obsession…
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Plants
Herbs of Zaytuna Farm – Yarrow
Plants have secrets that science is only just discovering, but that traditional herbalists, healers and farmers have known about for…
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Design
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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Videos
An Urban Food Forest and Therapy Garden: Angelo and Lana’s Journeys
Once a novice gardener, Lana’s garden now contains 50 beds and produces enough for her to sell $500/week at the…
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General
A Homemade Vegan Version of Natural & Organic Fertilizer
Featured Photo : Photo: Corn, Beans, Squash, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Amaranth and Gardener Last year I worked a couple of gardens…
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Animals
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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General
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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Food Forests
Invasive Thoughts: A Battle with Conscientious Consciousness
I did a lot of research. I hummed and hawed, danced around the issue, came up with a veritable pros…
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General
5 ha Polyculture Farm Design – Suhi Dol Revisited
Paul Alfrey from Balkan Ecology Project shares with us his observations and thoughts in regards to a visit he made to…
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