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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
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
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
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged crop-diversity, gardening, population, potato, true-seed, vegetables
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A Canvas and Some Paint
A Story of Creative Forestry and “Sweeta” Wild Black Cherry-Prunus serotina It is very interesting to learn about the relationships people have with nature. I love hearing stories from people who farm and discover plants and animals. Some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, blackcherry, climate-change, environment, gardening, land-use, lawn, mowing, nature
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Asparagii of Unknown Origins
For many years I was on the hunt for wild asparagus seeds for my nursery. I needed asparagii but only from seed. Not far from my nursery was a real life asparagus nursery which was 100 percent clonal. The asparagus … Continue reading
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Tagged Asparagus officinalis, dense nutrition, Euell Gibbons, perennial vegetables, very wild asparagus, wild asparagus
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The Jerusalem Artichoke Goes the Distance
It’s a root. It’s a tuber. It’s Super Sunflower. One of the great joys of growing plants is when you find a unique plant with characteristics in what would be considered impossible odds from a sea of uniformity. Because it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ecology, Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, perennial agriculture, Root crops, sunchoke
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Taco Bebbs Oak: Increasing Diversity
Bebbs Oak Quercus x bebbiana Quercus macrocarpa x alba Bur-White Hybrid Oak When I first started my oak collection, I found myself wheeling and dealing in acorns. It was like poker but with acorns. Everyone wins. Diversity increases. “Hit me.” … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, bebbs oak, ecology, hybrid oaks, oak tree, quercus
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Biodiversity in Fruits: 250 Year Old Pear Leads the Way
Diversity Expands In Novel Ecological Ways If you look at all the different systems of growing food, the plants used in human designed systems cannot regenerate on their own and go in what could be called creative directions outside what … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crop biodiversity, ecological integration, wild pear
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The Inbetweeners
Hybrid American Chestnuts: Castanea dentata x mollissima When I first started my nursery, I was always trying to find new seed sources to grow trees. A lot of my early sources were people known to me by reading Organic Gardening … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged agriculture, Castanea dentata, Castatanea x hybrid, ecology, Plant disease, Plant populations, seeds, sustainability
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