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Peaches From Pits
One of my local customers told me about a peach in his front yard that had a lot of fruit on that he did not want. It was horrible tasting he said and filled with worms. Perfect. I was very … Continue reading
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Tagged peach, peach flowers, peach pits, seedling trees, seedlings
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Diversity Explored: The European Chestnut
When I was first introduced to the European chestnut, I found it as a shrubby and stunted tree barely able to cope with Michigan’s cold winters. It was on top of a dune overlooking Lake Michigan near Grand Traverse Bay. … Continue reading
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Tagged chestnut, chestnut seeds, European chestnut, fast growing, hybrid chestnuts, nuts, plants, seeds
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The Timber Apple: An Opposite Value Rises in the Forest
All fruit trees contain within them their original blueprint of the forest environment that they were originally found. There are apricots, plums and apples throughout the world that are part of the forests around them in some way. When these … Continue reading
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Tagged apple wood, apples, crabapple, ecology, fast growing, forest, forest fruits, healthy trees, timber apple
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It Happens : Growth.
2024 was a year of surprises. Here are a few from my farm where anything is possible.
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Tagged agriculture, Beans, ecology, garden, gardening, nature, plants, seeds, tomatoes
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Diversity Explored: Serviceberry
At the time of my early nursery life in the 1980’s I was well aware of this beautiful flowering ornamental plant with delicious fruit. Sometimes in the nursery profession, you would not want to use the word serviceberry. It made … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Amelanchier, ecology, food, garden, gardening, Juneberry, nature, plants, seeds, serviceberry', trees
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Diversity Discovered: The Atlantic White Cedar
It is always a surprise to me that a wetland tree found only in swamps, back waters of streams and lake fronts will grow outside of it’s specific low oxygen and high moisture location into the front of the average … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, Atlantic cedar, Chamaecyparis, Chamaecyparis thyoides, ecology, Evergreen, lumber, nature, plants, seeds, trees, wood
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Dreams of Crop Diversity-The Perennial Bean
The thought of creating or exploring a new crop is a good idea. It is very simple. You start with seeds. All new crops start with new seeds. Like an idea the new seeds are something that no one has … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, bean consciousness, bean hybrids, Beans, beneficial-plants, crop-diversity, ecology, food, garden, gardening, hybrid plants, Lima bean, perennial bean, plant-diversity, seeds, thicket bean, vegetables
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The Hazelnut Arrives
It was over forty years ago when I first peered through the tree line on the land I was about to purchase and spotted hazelnuts. It was a good sign. I had no idea what was ahead of me. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Corylus americana, Corylus x hybrid, ecology, filazels, food, hazelberts, hazelnuts, nuts, seeds, tree crops
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Alders Grow the Extra Mile
The Genus Alnus contains some amazing unsung heroes of tree crops.There are no commercial stands of alders or horticultural varieties to be found in cultivation. As far as I could tell there were no indications that any nursery produced alders … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, alders, Alnus, Alnus orientalis, environment, fast growing, lumber, nature, nitrogen fixing, Oriental alder, tree crops, trees, woody crops
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Seeds Create-For the Love of Water
“Seeds are a source of wonder. They are objects of ernest inquiry in man’s ceaseless search for understanding of living things. Seeds protect and sustain life. Seeds are wealth. They are beauty. They are a symbol-a symbol of beginnings. They … Continue reading
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Tagged baldcypress, ecology, forestry, nature, plants, seeds, timber, vigorous trees, wetlands
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