Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
One of the great mysteries of growing annual fruiting or vegetable plants is why there are so few self seeders in the lot. Finding species that self seed without having to be replanted every year is not a common experience with most species of cultivated food plants. There are few types of what would be …
Continue reading “Green Blanket Wild Gourd”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Cloud Lima represents four distinct lines or selections of perennial and annual lima beans. This collection combines the thicket bean-Phaseolus polystachios, and three types of hybrid crosses using the true lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus. This was a process taking upwards of two decades of growing the thicket bean and eventually creating a hybrid cross using …
Continue reading “Cloud Lima Beans”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Neosinte is my first generations of developing and using teosinte as a grain crop. Similar to corn teosinte combines the drought tolerance of a wild grass with the corn we know today using a heirloom blue corn and the Mexican Highland teosinte. Neosinte was born from this cross done at my farm with help of …
Continue reading “Neosinte Teosinte”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
A huge array of seeds are planned for this fall along with several new releases of species never offered before. The seeds will be available as usual on line only and at this website. American persimmon will be collected and processed and in bulk this year along with different species of pears and chestnuts. The …
Continue reading “Seeds for the Fall of 2024”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Every plant has its limitations. As gardeners we soon discover how that translates in our own experience with certain plants and how something will grow or not grow in our own landscapes. Here are a few of my personal discoveries of which each is related in some way. Each species has a place on my …
Continue reading “Bird Cherry Meets Dingle Dangle Meets Wild Magnolia”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Short but sweet, writings and images on my discoveries in farming, my personal experiences in tree crops in what I call real world scenarios and how to expand the horizons of ecological thinking as it relates to healthy food and a healthy world. Click below to sign up. biologicalenrich.blog Biological enrichment blog was started in …
Continue reading “Biological Enrichment Blog”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Apples have a rich history of cultivation and use. This has led to a huge repository of selections estimated to exceed 10,000 varieties. I began a collection of apples starting in the early 80’s with the focus on species apples. The species apples are more like wild crabapples and have little history of cultivation or …
Continue reading “The Species Apple”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
What is it that you want in life? Every morning I follow a certain routine. I start by feeding the birds. I go to my garage, get out the mixed sunflower seeds, grab a few ears of corn and put the mixture in three different bird feeders stationed around the house. I throw the corn …
Continue reading “The Callery Solution”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.
Seeds Sale-2023 crop Limited Time-use CODE: Seeds25 We have upgraded our payment options which will allow you to use several payment options without having a Paypal account. The sale will continue for a month until May 15th. This sale helps sell the remaining seed harvest of 2023 as well as install a greenhouse this summer …
Continue reading “25 % Off Seeds: Seeds25 exp.5-15”…
Author: admin
A life long passion for plants helped me create Oikos Tree Crops. A wise man once said only a new crop can come from new seed. This was the beginnings of my tree crop farm with the use of the great diversity found in the world today but rarely harnessed for the purpose of creating greater health to humankind. Starting with my families Christmas tree farms, I began an attempt to weave ecology and agriculture together and find plants that would also fit this type of design. After completing my degree in biology and working in both retail and wholesale nursery trades, I started a small farm to produce a wide variety of woody plant seeds and plants. In the end I found a much more proficient way to create new varieties of hundreds of selections of woody and perennial plants. This fulfills the 'Oikos' (Ecos) part of my philosophy while retaining the spirit of economic geographer J. Russell Smith in Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture.