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The Species Pear Balancing Act On the Move
If you were to take a peak into the secret life of pears, you will find treasures hidden in places that are not easily accesible. These are not “escaped” pears but subspecies that someone in the taxonomic botanical world has … Continue reading
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Tagged gardening, seeds, nature, agriculture, food, ecology, wild pear, Pyrus pyraster
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The Unstoppable Power of Bamboo
When I lived in town with my family, I had a jogging route part of which was on a brick road on a steep hill. On the corner was a beautifully landscaped home of many fruits and ornamentals including a … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, bamboo, bamboo sprouts, carbon sequestration, edible bamboo, perennial agriculture, runner bamboo, tree crops, two-story-agriculture
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Paulownia: Grow Your Own Home-It Zooms
One of my first acquaintances in the tree crop arena was a research technician in the pharmaceutical industry. He was very passionate about growing his own firewood. This was in an era when the hybrid-popular market was in full swing … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ecology, Empress tree, farming, lumber, Paulownia, sustainability, timber, tree crops, wood
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Rediscovered Fruit: The Cornelian Cherry
On a camping trip when I was in high school I ate a bunch of bunchberries, Cornus canadensis. It is a common groundcover found in the northern woods of Michigan. The edible wild book that I had said they would … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, ecology, edible dogwood, fruit
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Wood is Good: American Chestnut
In my senior year in college, I was employed as a gardener for a home that was near a nature reserve in the city. From time to time, I would cross the street with a wheelbarrow full of spoiled apples harvested … Continue reading
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Tagged American chestnut, Castanea dentata, chestnut tables, ecology, Janka, timber crops, Wood quality
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Finding Mulberry: Morus rubra
I like mulberries and everything about them. It doesn’t matter what type they are. I made the selection Lavender Life red mulberry based on heavy fruit yields. It was not based on percentage of how much it may or may … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration
Tagged agriculture, ecology, farming, Morus rubra, mulberry, red mulberry, seed selections
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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
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Tagged agriculture, cover-crops, ecology, farming, green-cover, orchard-grass, perennial agriculture, soil-amendment, soil-diversity, sustainability
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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
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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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