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Response From The Bean Warriors

Thoughts from the Bean Warriors Archaeologists                 Bean Warriors    The jungle was inhospitable.                     We made it hospitable. They grew lima beans.                      It was the protein that didn’t run away. …

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From Snow Fountain to Snow Mountain

All plants have an extremely large potential for change far greater than our imagination of what we think is possible.  Modern plant breeding goals are almost always incredibly tiny and parceled out in super small characteristic level based doses.  There is never going from point A to point B and wrapping it up. There is …

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The Mongolian Oak Rises Into the Canopy

I’m not sure where I received the acorns of this species. In the beginning, I was part of a network of what I loosely defined as oak obsessed individuals with a love for all things Quercus. Yes. Whacky edible acorn people were part of this group. Everyone contributed.  I do remember getting two attempts of …

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The Flavor Farm Finds the Lemon

  Once I hired a someone for my shipping and packing crew who always came to the farm in the morning with the same breakfast. He would first open a package of Ding Dongs on the packing table in front of him and then follow it by cracking open a Diet Pepsi. This combination was …

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For the Love of Apricots

  For me it is impossible not to check out the apricots in the produce section of my local grocery store. I know they are from California. I know that the flavor is iffy and not tree ripened.  I still have to try. Several times I have ordered the organic Frog Hollow Farm apricots from …

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Escape From the L’Anse Sewage Plant

A New Broadway Play Comes to Town:  Escape From the L’Anse Sewage Plant A Review By Kenneth Asmus Normally anything to do with sewage in the title I would run. Yet my attention was captured from the very beginning when the lead character, a watermelon named Bob discovers a world outside of the nutrient rich …

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“Ken, no one cares about your snooty little fruit club.”

It started as a discussion around wild leeks as a foraging exercise at my farm.  Here was a delicious wild food that was being harvested for use in upscale restaurants. I had a small planting under my persimmons at my farm planted about a decade before. They were slowly spreading outward. After a few years …

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The American Holly: Ecological Dynamism

One of the great aspects of having a nursery for a long time was participating in seed exchanges. Without seed exchanges, you really are left in a botanically isolated world. There are many people throughout the world that not only want to share their plant diversity with you but also want you to succeed with …

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The Unexplored Explored: Minor Becomes Major

One of the most exciting and little known areas of fruit growing falls into the category called minor fruits.  When I first started publishing my catalog in the early eighties, the minor category was front and center. The unknown possibilities of minor fruits are the unexplored.  To me it was very exciting. The category name …

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The Teosinte Plant

Teosinte expands outward. It’s an omni-directional force starting from a pin point and then outward like an exploding star.  This  makes it impossible to define by a small sample. Too late it has already exploded and is expanding at exponential speed. You can only gather so many fragments. The dust is too fine to recreate …