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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
Posted in Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration
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
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration
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
Posted in Diversity Found, Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration, Miracles of Nature
Tagged beach plums, ecology, farmerless fields, forest, fruit, fruit-trees, fruits, healthy fruits, jam, nature, wild plums
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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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One With the Other
It happens effortlessly all the time in an infinite number of ways. Nature integrates all living things. Every gardener knows this too. Like the above image of my Norway spruce and pawpaw planting there is no unwritten rule of good … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, enrichment, Norway-spruce
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