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25 Percent Off Seeds: Seeds25
Seeds Sale-2023 crop Limited Time-use CODE: Seeds25 An invoice direct from Paypal to your email address will be sent if you have issues with the store. As of 4-13-24 a new check out procedure is being installed which may take a while to complete. Thank you for your patience. This sale helps sell the remaining …
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The Corn Plant
I always wondered why corn was so luxurious in growth and existed in such wonderful dense green fields. It was so perfect to me and completely uniform. In this uniformity I experienced corn as a single magnificent and powerful force of nature able to feed millions of people and animals alike. That was its super …
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Full Expression Plant Discoveries-Find What You Are Looking For
A work of art like this stone Egyptian water buffalo at the New York Met can last many lifetimes. Plant discoveries can create the same effect. By contributing to that which has come before, it can make life easier for future generations. A certain level of appreciation for the artist and scientist is generated …
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The American Persimmon in Michigan
The American Persimmon Defined When I first heard of the American Persimmon I had just graduated from college with an interest in starting a fruit farm with my brother in southwestern Michigan. I had a small landscape maintenance company trying to develop the concept of edible landscapes. In the winter I would work by pruning …
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The Groundnut-Weed, Protein and Global in Nature
When I first started growing groundnuts over 20 years ago, I had little information on how to produce the plant or use it. It was an edible wild plant I remember reading about in high school when I was diving into those survival in the wild books. I remember ordering the tubers from J.L. Hudson …
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The Oikos Vision of Tree Crops Podcast
Enjoy this podcast I made with the folks at Partisan Gardens where we discuss edible acorns, tree crops and my personal experiences with growing plants. Thank you Partisan Gardens. The Oikos Vision for Tree Crops Partisan Gardens September 2021
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Seeds are Available-Cultivar Releases
May 24th will be the last date of our nursery. I am retiring and closing the nursery. Oikos Tree Crops has been in existence since the early 1980’s.