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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 Percent Off Seeds: Seeds25
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 …
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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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The Perennial Bean
I love beans. It is my favorite protein source. I am particularly fond of red lentils as they are very digestible and quick to cook. When someone brought up lentils in one of my agricultural classes in the late 1970’s the professor joked, “What are those? Beans grown during lent?” He then followed up with …
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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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A Potato Escapes Cultivation and Becomes Feral
In the process of trying to define a wild potato, I began to wonder how botany would characterize a well-known crop plant found as a wild plant growing outside of cultivation. Botany is good at defining plants in very subjective terms. Consider the following terms I found from a few of my reference books. Escaped, …
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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 …