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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December 16, 2024
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 …
December 16, 2024
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. …
August 7, 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 …
April 28, 2024
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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April 26, 2024
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 …
April 18, 2024
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 …
April 14, 2024
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 …
April 7, 2024
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 …
March 29, 2024
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. …