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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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Flavor in the Distance
There are many types of wild fruits that people use for jam, jelly and syrup. These are harvested locally by those who are aware of a unique fruit that are not cultivated. It is made on stove tops in small … Continue reading
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Tagged berry, food, fruit, fruit growing, jams, jellies, nature, recipes, Viburnum, wild fruit
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Flavor Impossible
Some of the plants I grew at my farm were the ‘lost in translation’ of the edible world. I was not sure how anyone, made use of or processed and consumed in some way their fruits or foliage. The flavors … Continue reading
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Tagged bitter foods, cultivated, ecology, edible wild, food, foraging, gardening, nature, vegetables, wild 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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Chinquapin Chestnut On the Move
In the shadow of the hardwood forests of North America lies a well kept treasure rarely cultivated. It is a small nut shrub called the chinquapin. Unlike any number of chestnut trees cultivated or wild, the chinquapin is mostly thought … Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, Castanea, Castanea pumila, chestnut, chinquapin, ecology, environment, hybrid chestnut, nature, wild food, wild species
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The Perfect Plum
One of my early nursery experiences with another nursery owner on the west coast was with plums. He was producing an Asian species from seed like gangbusters. I started seeing them in the some of the giant retailers like Gurney … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, ecology, fruit production, garden, gardening, japanese plums, multi-story agriculture, nature, plants, plums, regeneration, seeds, tree
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Beautiful Orderly Plants
Under a powerline ground to sawdust by the tree services of Consumers Power is an autumn olive bush which resprouted creating this one bud sport or sprout which is variegated. From a hundred sprouts only one is variegated. Variegation can … Continue reading
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Tagged beautiful, beneficial plants, flowers, garden, gardening, nature, order, plants
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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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Discovery from Seeds
Sometimes its the small things that matter. Growing plants from seeds and finding traits that are inherited over time in a population of plants is a joy for me. I have no idea why I like it. I just find … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, discovery, ecology, flowers, food, garden, gardening, lima beans, nature, plant breeding, potatoes, seeds, sunflowers, umbrella magnolia
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Diversity Found: American Black Currant
When the ponds were built on my family’s farm, large ditches were needed to drain the water to finish the excavation. It was roughly a 30 acre pond surrounded by a wetland. The ditches near the highway were massive as … Continue reading
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Tagged black currant, ecology, healthy fruit, nature
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