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Parking Lot to Forest: Going From Zero to Hero in Plant Diversity
In terms of establishing new perennial plants in my treeless pasture, my farm was a good testing ground for all these different methods I kept reading about from other growers in gardening and permaculture. I applied these ideas to my … Continue reading
Nana Beach Plum: It Lives in a Farmerless Field
Any species of fruit as it is found in ‘nature’ can be cultivated. Two years ago, I grew a wild tomato from the Everglades that produced a tomato the size of a pea. It tasted like a tomato but was … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged beach plums, ecology, farmerless fields, forest, fruit, fruit-trees, fruits, healthy fruits, jam, nature, wild plums
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Random: Distribution of Plants Within an Orderly Structure
Random is Not That Random. We tend to think of forests as random sets of plants in a structured organized way. Things are not in rows. It is a mixed forest. We might think, “oh this is much more desirable … Continue reading
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Tagged apples, beneficial plants, forest, fruit farm, global, multiflora rose, plants, random, seed production, trees, woody plants
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Flexibility and Stability: Integrating Opposite Values With the Wild Apple
When you grow an apple from seed (which I highly recommend) you will see the extremities of what is possible in terms of what the apple will look and taste like. If a crabapple tree is nearby, then there is … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crabapple, ecology, Malus, seed source, seeds, wild apple
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One is a Lonely Number: it just is no good anymore and other fixer uppers in the plant world
Just one single species of plant can positively change the world in so many wonderful productive agricultural ways. To make the world more fruitful and abundant, crop enrichment could light the way by harnessing new species of plants outside of what … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn-olive, autumnberry, ecology, hardy-citrus, trifoliate-orange, weeds
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Strength in Numbers: Where Loss Benefits the Whole
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Such is the case of using cultivated plants as a means for overcoming disease and other environmental calamities. To overcome obstacles, it takes a population not a lone individual to … Continue reading
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Tagged American-hybrid-chestnut, chestnut, nuts, seedling-trees
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You and Your Sandcherry Empire
Have you ever gone for a hike and discovered some interesting fruit along a trail somewhere? It’s a common experience. Such is the case for Prunus pumila or sandcherry found on the dunes of the Great Lakes. The trails that … Continue reading
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Tagged cherry, food, fruit, garden, gardening, native, plants, sandcherry, wild
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Small Potato in a Big Universe
I’ve always been fascinated by the potato plant. Every year on vacation while driving to the upper peninsula in Michigan with my family we took a route that happened to be surrounded by potatoes in full flower on both sides … Continue reading
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Tagged crop-diversity, gardening, population, potato, true-seed, vegetables
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