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What Happened To Corn?
If someone came back from a 9000 year journey and saw corn today this might be their first question. What did happen to corn? It is funny to me as this question came to me last year from a colleague … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged corn, corn-flour, crop-diversity, cultivated, food, northern teosinte, teosinte, wild edible
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Wild Plums On The Move
One of the great joys of growing seedling fruit is not knowing what is going to be the end result. You are using a tree as you would find it in the wild in an untended situation and putting it … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged agroforestry, easy-to-grow, ecology, fruit industry, healthy fruits, native fruits, plums, tree crops, two-story-agriculture, wild plums
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Capturing Vitality and Vigor While Pursuing Diversity
There is a huge array of vines that are used in permaculture for food production. Some of these perennial crops are rarely grown yet are very easy to grow and use. Part of the reluctance of planting them is due … Continue reading
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Tagged food, perennial vegetables, trellis, tuber crops, tubers
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Furry, Cute and Venomous Meets Crispy, Snackable and Delicious
Some of the most secretive plants are the most common. We pass by. We see it. Yet, our consciousness does not reflect it as a discovery of anything significant. I saw this trifoliate vine twining around an American hazelnut bush … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, food, hog peanut, nature, nitrogen fixing, plants, voles
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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
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
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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