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The Edible World Part 1
One of the great benefits of having a nursery was to inspire others to create gardens filled with unique and delicious fruits and vegetables. Most of the plants I grew were not available by other nurseries or produced by a … Continue reading
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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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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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Bean Flowers
Yesterday while trying to capture insects working my bean flowers via photography , I remembered the college professor that I took an Entomology class from Western Michigan University in 1975. The whole class went out one night to a nearby … Continue reading
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Tagged bean flowers, Beans, flowers, lima beans, perennial beans, pollination, pollinators
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The Thicket Bean Explodes
Before the advent of annual beans, the thicket bean was well known. It was the protein that did not run away. It is a species of perennial bean found throughout the midwest and northeastern U.S. Unlike the thousands of selections … Continue reading
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Tagged Beans, ecology, enrich, enrichment, food, garden, gardening, nature, plants, thicket bean, vegetables
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The Glorious, Exalted and Most Powerful Beans
Every year in the spring I go through my small bins of seeds and figure out what I am going to plant. I have no plan so the choices are wide open. I like that idea. It reminds me of … Continue reading
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Oh, it’s vigorous
There is probably no other word used more freely than vigorous to describe a desirable attribute of a plant found in cultivation. Here are a few plants that show their vigorous nature no matter what nature throws at them. This … Continue reading
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