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And Now We Present a Ginger Bloom
This is what the bloom on culinary ginger looks like: Unlike pinecone ginger, culinary ginger has yellow blossoms (at least…
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Adding Protein Back to Our Homestead
Someone asked me a few weeks ago how much of our food comes from our homestead. The answer was… not…
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Sumac Blooms and Bees!
I added the first sumac to my food forest right at the beginning of the project almost four years ago.…
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A New Trial Banana Variety: The 1000 Fingers Banana
I love bananas but they’re definitely marginal here. I don’t know how this guy is going to do, but I’m…
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New Excuse For Not Cleaning Up: Edible Wild Cucumbers In the Brush Pile!
A few months ago I noticed a lawn company cleaning up a bunch of brush and vines from a neighbor’s…
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Scarlet Rose Mallow: A Beautiful Florida Native Wildflower
Let’s play “guess the family:” I know… too easy. This thing is obviously a hibiscus of some sort. If you’ve…
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Runaway Pumpkin Success and a Seminole Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Remember this post? We’re getting paid for all the work we DIDN’T do. The vine (or two or three… I…
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ATTACK WASP!
I was sitting beside our little front yard pond with my ridiculously creative friend The Aardvark and his son, talking about…
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Flowing with purple riches
Dave Taylor of Taylor Gardens Nursery gave me a “Texas Everbearing” fig to try out on the homestead. Though it’s…
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Snakes: better than rodents
If you have a healthy ecosystem, you have predators. Snakes are some of my favorite predators: Iย caughtย this 3′ long yellow…
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18 Amazing Trees For Your Woodlot
Mulberries: delicious and useful. Trees are a gift from God. They shelter, feed and warm us. Our books and hand tools are…







