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Food Forest, Fruit trees, PawPaw

Asimina parviflora in my food forest

That’s one of three native Asimina parviflora pawpaws currently growing in my food forest. Here’s a shot of its tiny…
Crops, Grapes

Muscadine grapes are looking good

I have a patch of about 10 grape vines growing in my backyard that I planted 3-4 years ago. They’re…
Food Forest, Fruit trees, Soap nut tree, Survival Plant Profiles

Survival Plant Profile: Florida Soapberry or Soap Nut Tree

If you’re a back-to-the-land sort or an alternative health, organic-market-shopping type, or a plant lover… you may have come across…
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Tonight @ the Gainesville Gardening and Preparedness Network

First of all, my wife found a great picture of herself picking coconuts this week: Quite a babe. In more…
Chickasaw plum, Fruit trees, Grafting, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums

More Chickasaw plum grafts – Grafting successes and failures

We had almost a 100% success rate with our Chickasaw plum grafting this year. Behold! Those two grafts are from…
Berries, Crops, Fruit trees, Insectary plants, Japanese persimmon, Permaculture, Pest control

A magnificent result: check out my perennial garden bed!

I’m really loving the way this perennial garden bed is looking: This is not only a food bed, it’s also…
Food Forest, Garden design, Insectary plants, Nitrogen-fixers, Permaculture, Seeds, Uncategorized

Want a FAST food forest? Try a crazy cover crop seed mix!

Behold my epic cover crop seed mix! That’s right boys and girls – I mixed roughly 1.5 trillion different types…
Crops, Plant propagation, Yams

African Yam propagation from minisetts: it worked!

I posted on my “yam minisett” experiment last month. Here are the results: Not all of the pieces emerged. I…
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SATURDAY: I’m speaking in Volusia County and bringing fruit/perennial vegetables for sale!

Come on down! Details here: http://www.meetup.com/volusiacountybasegroup/events/221665279/ I’ll be talking about spring gardening, answering questions, sharing some from my new book…
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Last Chance!

Today is the last chance to see my hour-long presentation “13 Tips, Tricks and Lessons from Homesteading an Acre” for…
Food Forest, Fruit trees, Loquat

Protecting loquat fruit from frost

These are the first fruits to appear on this loquat tree. It’s likely 6 years old, though I planted it…
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The Home Grown Food Summit is now on Day 3 – almost time for my in-depth 60 minute video presentation…