Why your kiwi vine is failing despite your best efforts, and the one ‘neighbor’ it’s dying to meet. Most gardeners treat their kiwi vine like a prisoner in a cell, ...
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CASE STUDY: We've been living off the grid for the last 40 years...
In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...
We traded 1,000 years of citrus resilience for a fruit that cannot survive without a pharmacy of chemicals. Modern orange varieties are bred for shipping crates, not for survival. While ...
If your berries taste like crunchy water, you’re eating a logistics experiment instead of actual fruit. Modern supermarket blackberries are bred to survive a 1,000-mile truck ride, resulting in thick ...
Did you know that a lonely guava tree is a target for pests, but a ‘guilded’ tree naturally defends itself? Most gardeners treat their guava tree like a lawn ornament, ...
Why are you fighting a thorny fortress for a handful of berries when you could harvest gallons from a single, orderly stem? Most gardeners let their gooseberries turn into a ...
Why settle for just a few bunches of fruit when your grapes could be cooling your patio and building your soil at the same time? Stop treating your grapevines like ...
A tree in a lawn is a tree in a desert. Modern landscaping tells us to plant trees in a sea of grass, but grass is a greedy neighbor. Surrounding ...
Is your apricot tree wasting its energy on leaves instead of fruit? Most gardeners are afraid to cut their apricot trees, but leaving them to grow ‘wild’ is the fastest ...
The Romans grew more figs per acre without a single watt of electricity than we do with all our technology. We spend hundreds on smart sensors and liquid nutrients, but ...
Are you planting a temporary garden ornament or a living inheritance that will feed your great-grandchildren? Modern gardening focuses on ‘fast and small’ with dwarf trees that often burn out ...