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A Raspberry Takes Many Forms
You got to respect them.They are a tad thorny and hard to walk through. They are a bit overwhelming at times yet bring you closer to wild fruit nirvana more than any fruit. They can fourish where few fruits can … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, beneficial-plants, blackberry, ecological enrichment, ecology, plant-diversity, plants, raspberry, Rubus, wild
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Heading North on the American Persimmon Highway
One of the easiest ways to create a strain of plant is to find similar individuals in a climate or zone similar to yours. The reason you might attempt this is that you desire to grow a plant that is … Continue reading
From Fruits to Roots: Tranquility Potato
Have you ever looked at the roots of plants closely? The part of the plant you don’t see is incredibly complex. Since I used a shovel to dig all the plants for my nursery I soon had a birds eye … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ecology, food, health, potatoes, seeds, vegetables
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Scientific Thoughts
I took a class in college taught by a history of science teacher called “Scientific Thoughts and Thinkers.” One of my business major friends from Detroit who was super skeptical on many topics took it at the same time. He … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biological enrichment, farming, food, natural laws, nature, objective, Spirtuality, subjective, sustainable-agriculture
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Germination Of New Ideas
In your search for unique flavors, you may discover crops that were abandoned or never adopted to any degree. You may ask yourself where is that beautiful food? You can find it on websites, non-profits and seed companies that promote … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, fruit, seeds
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Perennial Protein of Apios americana: Tubers on a String
In high school I owned several books of edible wild plants. This was in my phase of finding a cave in the wilderness and bailing on society. I still have a lot of those Bradford Angier survival and camping books. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apios, edible-landscapes., food, garden, gardening, groundnut, high-protein-tuber, hopniss, seeds, vegetables, wild-foods
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The Thicket Bean Explodes
Before the advent of annual beans, the thicket bean was well known. It was the protein that did not run away. It is a species of perennial bean found throughout the midwest and northeastern U.S. Unlike the thousands of selections … Continue reading
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Tagged Beans, ecology, enrich, enrichment, food, garden, gardening, nature, plants, thicket bean, vegetables
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Response To The Chemical Warriors
I always had this idea that the roadsides could provide food in terms of nuts and fruits along with a few perennial vegetables like sunchokes. It seemed like unused space with huge potential. All you would have to do is … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, edible-landscapes., fruitopia, herbicide, herbicide damage, herbicides, roadsides, weeds
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I Can Plant Trees
My father took this picture. It was a cloudy day and I wanted to show him what I was up to on my new farm. There was no barn, water or phone. I was planting trees in a little box … Continue reading
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One Tree Crop
My father and his friend from the post office had this idea back in the sixties. It was not easy to get anyone to agree. Out of a dozen potential partners only one remained in the end. It was 140 … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, christmas-tree, farming, nuts, sustainable-agriculture, treecrops, treefarm
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