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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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Grow A Guitar
I own two soprano recorders that are made out of fruit wood. One is apricot and the other is pear wood. The pear wood recorder is a Hohner that I purchased when I was in high school. I brought it … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, lumber, musical-instruments, pear-trees, powerful-trees, timber-trees, wood
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Regeneration Through Dissemination
Like my family’s Christmas tree farms of yesteryear, most tree crops are planted in long rows of a single species to maximize production. At my 13 acre farm, I did not have the luxury of both time and money to … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, diversity, ecology, gardening, multi-story agriculture, nature, non-native, regeneration, seeds
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The Plum That Lives in a Farmer-less Field
There has never been a greater example of a species of fruit that could be grown as a species of fruit without employing the cultivar based system of fruit growing. The above image is one of the first beach plum … 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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Asparagii of Unknown Origin
It’s not pretty but it’s asparagus. You may not have eaten it when you were a child. Here was this quasi-gelatinous long green alien stalk of unknown origin. “Who would eat this?”, you would ask yourself? If you did dare … Continue reading
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Tagged Asparagus officinalis, dense nutrition, Euell Gibbons, perennial vegetables, very wild asparagus, wild asparagus
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Simply Making the Plant World More Diverse
One of easiest ways to increase plant diversity in the natural world is to look for potential species that can reproduce and increase on their own without burning, mowing or herbiciding everything to near death. The same can be said … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, Clinopodium, crop-diversity, ecology, food-crop, gardening, native-plants
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Now That’s A Grape
Its interesting in that grapes are so widely consumed in so many forms, yet if you mention woody agriculture or tree crops, they are not considered in the same life saving way as a tree. Vitis is vine in Latin. … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, grapes, healthy-foods, viticulture, wild-fruits, wild-grapes, wine
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Purpurea
Purple pigments in plants attract attention. Probably the most well known purple plant is the purple leaf Norway maple. It is produced from seed as well as varietal selections with intense purple coloration. You still see it in the nursery … Continue reading
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Tagged American-hazelnut, hazelnut, nut, plants, purpurea
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Meet the Perennial Brassicas
It’s a common experience with gardeners to discover sprouts on old broccoli or cabbage stalks from the year before. Even the Brussels sprouts will kick out a new stem in the second year. This is because by and large Brassicas … Continue reading
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Tagged brassica, broccoli, Bunia, flowers, garden, gardening, perennial, plants, vegetables, wild-foods
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