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Medlar-Pear Sauce on a Tree
It is not a common fruit within the United States. There are several grafted trees of it offered by nurseries. At one time I decided to plant as many as I could find. I grew eight varieties of the medlar which was all I could find. The trees were usually on hawthorn rootstock. Even if …
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Wildlife 2024 Retrospective
Every year brings in new plants and animals at my farm. Here are a few of them captured in a moment of time most of it from 2024. That is wild.
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Green Blanket Wild Gourd
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 …
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Cloud Lima Beans
Cloud Lima represents four distinct lines 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 the pollinators …
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Neosinte Teosinte
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 …
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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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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 Species Apple
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 …
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25 % Off Seeds: Seeds25 exp.5-15
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 …