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The Unstoppable Power of Bamboo
When I lived in town with my family, I had a jogging route part of which was on a brick road on a steep hill. On the corner was a beautifully landscaped home of many fruits and ornamentals including a … Continue reading
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Tagged agroforestry, bamboo, bamboo sprouts, carbon sequestration, edible bamboo, perennial agriculture, runner bamboo, tree crops, two-story-agriculture
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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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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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