Jonathon Engels
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Jun- 2019 -19 JuneFood Plants - Perennial
Making My First Mushroom Logs
As forest-lovers who spent a considerable amount of time looking for a property with significant forest on it, an effort…
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15 JuneLand
Finding a Place to Make a Home
At the end of last summer, Emma and I finally found the property for which we’d been searching for about…
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May- 2019 -29 MayFood Forests
Planting by Schedule and Plagiarising Instinct
With a recent transition from the wet-dry tropics of Panama to Zone 7b in temperate USA, this year’s planting schedule…
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Mar- 2019 -29 MarchEarthworks & Earth Resources
The Earthen Spillway Project
The Picture To put things into perspective, our dam is relatively shallow, peaking out at maybe two meters. It’s fed…
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5 MarchPlants
Ramps: Saving Our Wild Edibles
Since moving to North Carolina a couple of years ago—my, how time flies—Emma and I have developed a minor obsession…
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Jan- 2019 -21 JanuaryGeneral
A Homemade Vegan Version of Natural & Organic Fertilizer
Featured Photo : Photo: Corn, Beans, Squash, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Amaranth and Gardener Last year I worked a couple of gardens…
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Dec- 2018 -13 DecemberGeneral
Growing Grains at the Home-Scale Farm
I dream of growing grains, of being so far down the line in establishing a kitchen garden, a vegetable garden,…
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Nov- 2018 -29 NovemberDesign
Multi-Functional Living: Wood Heat
This year Emma and I are taking something we did last year and making it more functional: We are heating…
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17 NovemberGeneral
Useful Garden Projects for Autumn Leaves
Despite having spent many of my most recent years in the tropics, and despite having grown up in Louisiana, where…
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Oct- 2018 -31 OctoberDesign
Repurposing Wood
Not so long ago, my wife Emma and I bought our property, a place for which we’d been looking for…
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16 OctoberRecipes
Horseradish: Why I Should Try It Again
Earlier this year, in the spring, I was able to acquire a handful of horseradish roots to plant in a…
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1 OctoberFood Forests
Invasive Thoughts: A Battle with Conscientious Consciousness
I did a lot of research. I hummed and hawed, danced around the issue, came up with a veritable pros…
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