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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. …
March 27, 2024
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 …
March 21, 2024
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 …
March 20, 2024
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 …
March 18, 2024
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 …
March 17, 2024
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 …