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Uprooted
Dear Reader, In the last year, we’ve picked up and moved to Charlotte. And while in Charlotte, from a studio apartment to a larger space and then from there, back home again. I was emailing ba… more →
Healing Tree Farm
An Abundant, Low-Impact Christmas
1stvillager wrote 11 months ago: Back again after a relaxing Christmas holiday. This was perhaps our most low-impact Christmas ever. … more →
Uprooted
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iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: Dear Reader, In the last year, we’ve picked up and moved to Charlotte. And while in Charlotte … more →
Why weeds matter
iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: By definition, a weed is any plant that crowds out cultivated plants. In nature, plants will only c … more →
Worksheets!
iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve read or encountered the Edible Forest Gardens volumes, you’re probably familia … more →
Where the farm began
iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: I suppose Healing Tree began somewhere in my heart and worked its way to productive thinking about s … more →
So much more than cherries
iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: It was the summer of 2004 when I first read about a young woman running for the title of National Ch … more →
Exactly.
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iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: The summer before Y2K, when everyone was talking about the collapse of the free world due to some un … more →
Article Submission: The Cankerbird
iamsamiam wrote 1 year ago: It’s been a while since my last post. We’ve made the move to North Carolina and are adju … more →
Guild Building: Grow with your guilds... (Pt3)
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: Once we have allowed for ample decomposition and the accumulation of multiple nitrogen/carbon-rich l … more →
Where the Wild Things Are
iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: This week we are still awaiting our bulb order. The bulbs should have arrived late last week, but t … more →
How to Build a Fruit-centered Guild (Pt2)
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: Once you have built a healthy layer of topsoil, wait a while (like months) while the materials break … more →
How to Build a Fruit-centered Guild (Pt1)
iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: To build a guild think soil, roots, and results. A mature ecosystem has a rich layer of biomass tha … more →
Farmers
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: I was talking with Sandy at Rennie Orchards about my tree order (he was very helpful in helping me s … more →
Journey Seeds
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: Linda is posting some fantastic information on Permaculture (and Biodynamics) at her website, Journe … more →
Ordering Fruit Trees
iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: After a phone call with Sandy Rennie of Rennie Orchards in Williamsburg, MI, we decided to simplify … more →
14 down, one to go!
iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: We completed Guild No. 14 last night and have only one more to build before beginning the process of … more →
From Imperfectly Yours: A Wonder-filled World
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: Our garden traces the lowlands of our back yard, where water collects during rainfall; part of a nat … more →
Strawberry Beds
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iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: Lucy and I completed the strawberry beds this morning. They’re now thick and rich with compost … more →
Mulberry Guilds and more
iamsamiam wrote 2 years ago: I’m working this morning on building the mulberry guild(s). We picked up some manure yesterday … more →
