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This coming winter season new varieties of oak, persimmon, plums and all other named selections of plants will be available from my repository for the first time ever. It will not be necessary to order seeds with the scions. To do this in a more timely fashion, a tree service will be helping me in …
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When I first started propagating plants in the early 80’s I realized I needed moisture proof tables that could handle lots of weight. The tops had to be immune to wet acidic soil. I soon found out that the office tables said to take moisture had particle board coated in a linoleum type top which …
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For the first time in a long, long time wood tables made exclusively with harvested hybrid American chestnut wood will be available at the Oikos Tree Crops farm direct. Currently slated for November release, I am busy as a beaver trying to make use of a crop of wood which was harvested over a decade …
Every variety of fruit has a certain history found within it. Trying to find that history is sometimes best explained by turning the seeds within it into seedlings. The seedlings continue to tell the story is surprising ways. Here is the continuing story of a 250 year old pear tree from Maine and my experience …
Finding the perfect combination of flavor, productivity and ease of harvest takes partience in the world of the rose only because the fruit of of the rose has never been given serious thought. As everyone knows the rose is a floral crop not a woody plant fruit crop. This was my attempt at finding that …
Finding the right seed sources for trees was important to me. Chestnut trees are grown throughout Michigan and many great examples exist of both cultivated and wild trees of unknown origins. It was both a puzzle to solve and a means for me to secure seeds for my nursery for tree production. One such selection …
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The “Ozette” potato was considered the only ‘wild’ cultivated potato direct from South America to North America by Spanish explorers in the late 1700’s in the Pacific Northwest and raised by the Makah tribe. (See the above picture of it grown at my farm twenty years ago.) I liked that idea as a sort of …
Of the many chestnuts I grow, the chinquapin never disappoints. Every year it is laden with crops. The only thing I wish was that I planted more of them. I only had four producing plants for many years. Yet from this small grouping, I found out how specific it was in growing it to obtain …
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Free shipping for all orders placed now through April. New seeds are coming on line shortly including Crispy Snack Hog Peanut and two new sunchoke varieties. Quantum potato is still in stock. This was the feral potato I was growing with the intention of a totally wild and self sustaining population that is adapted to …
There is a direct way for seeding a forest in the same manner found in the story “The Man Who Planted Trees” by Jean Giono. Yet it is rarely done. Here are a few species of trees as well as ideas to plant trees with minimal resources all done from the level of the seed. …
