Plant Systems
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Flowers in the Vegetable Garden – 7 Best Flowers Which Will Protect Your Plants
Today, more than ever, we need to be conscious of our actions and the way they affect our ecosystem. Many…
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Dynamic Accumulators Part Two
Dynamic accumulators are plants that actively accumulate appreciable amounts of useful nutrients. These plants are potentially useful for those involved…
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Tropical Permaculture Perspectives
Visiting Por Phat Aphaimool’s forest farm in Mae Tha, Chiang Mai, again after a long time was a chance to…
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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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Walking in the Footsteps of Fukuoka with Larry Korn
Following the Natural Farming workshop given by Larry Korn in Chiang Mai, Larry and Roman Eisenkoelbl (who coordinated this programme…
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Herbs of Zaytuna – Aloe Vera
So here we are, on the Zaytuna Farm Herb Tour. We met Yarrow here and after him, the most multi-functional plant…
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A Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Could Lead to a Sustainable Future
National Geographic in this short film shows us an example of forest gardening of food forests from the UK. Martin…
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Vanilla Cultivation: A Practical Guide for the Tropical Homestead
The vanilla orchid (Vanilla planifolia) is one of the world’s most interesting plants. Of the nearly 35,000 species of orchid,…
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The Herbs of Zaytuna Farm – Rosemary
Welcome to Zaytuna Farm. To get here you turned off the highway and drove through rolling hills, covered with macadamia…
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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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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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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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