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Category: Ecological Enrichment
Green Blanket Wild Gourd
One of the great mysteries of growing annual 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 called ‘volunteer’ plants …
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Cloud Lima Beans
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 …
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Neosinte Teosinte
Neosinte is my first generations of developing and using teosinte as a grain plant. This started over a decade ago using a cross with a blue heirloom sweet corn and northern highland teosinte. It was a pathless path type of selection process with the goal of creating an outwardly ever expanding diverse population of plants. …
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Seeds for the Fall of 2024
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 …
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Bird Cherry Meets Dingle Dangle Meets Wild Magnolia
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 …
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Category: Ecological Enrichment
Biological Enrichment Blog
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 …
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The Callery Solution
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 …
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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 …