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Paulownia: Grow Your Own Home-It Zooms
One of my first acquaintances in the tree crop arena was a research technician in the pharmaceutical industry. He was very passionate about growing his own firewood. This was in an era when the hybrid-popular market was in full swing … Continue reading
Rediscovered Fruit: The Cornelian Cherry
On a camping trip when I was in high school I ate a bunch of bunchberries, Cornus canadensis. It is a common groundcover found in the northern woods of Michigan. The edible wild book that I had said they would … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, ecology, edible dogwood, fruit
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Wood is Good: American Chestnut
In my senior year in college, I was employed as a gardener for a home that was near a nature reserve in the city. From time to time, I would cross the street with a wheelbarrow full of spoiled apples harvested … Continue reading
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Tagged American chestnut, Castanea dentata, chestnut tables, ecology, Janka, timber crops, Wood quality
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Finding Mulberry: Morus rubra
I like mulberries and everything about them. It doesn’t matter what type they are. I made the selection Lavender Life red mulberry based on heavy fruit yields. It was not based on percentage of how much it may or may … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, farming, ecology, mulberry, red mulberry, Morus rubra, seed selections
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Parking Lot to Forest: Going From Zero to Hero in Plant Diversity
In terms of establishing new perennial plants in my treeless pasture, my farm was a good testing ground for all these different methods I kept reading about from other growers in gardening and permaculture. I applied these ideas to my … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, cover-crops, ecology, farming, green-cover, orchard-grass, perennial agriculture, soil-amendment, soil-diversity, sustainability
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Nana Beach Plum: It Lives in a Farmerless Field
Any species of fruit as it is found in ‘nature’ can be cultivated. Two years ago, I grew a wild tomato from the Everglades that produced a tomato the size of a pea. It tasted like a tomato but was … 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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Flexibility and Stability: Integrating Opposite Values With the Wild Apple
When you grow an apple from seed (which I highly recommend) you will see the extremities of what is possible in terms of what the apple will look and taste like. If a crabapple tree is nearby, then there is … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crabapple, ecology, Malus, seed source, seeds, wild apple
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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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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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