One missed watering will kill the tree on the left, but the tree on the right hasn’t been watered by a human in three months. Potted limes are fragile systems ...
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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...
Did we trade the medicinal power of the papaya for a longer shelf life? Commercial breeding has prioritized shipping durability over nutrient density. While modern papayas look perfect on the ...
Are you planting a peach tree for a single season or for your grandchildren to climb? Most modern peach trees are bred for quick production and early death. We have ...
Why does the tree growing in a literal crack in the sidewalk produce more antioxidants than the one in the $100 designer pot? We treat our garden pomegranates like royalty, ...
That ‘invasive’ sprout in your lawn is actually a $25 nursery plant waiting for a home. Most gardeners see a raspberry runner in their lawn and reach for the mower. ...
Did you know grocery store pears are often harvested months before they develop sugar, leaving them permanently mealy and bland? The ‘Consumer’ pear is a logistics experiment—bred for shipping, not ...
One of these trees will yield 50 lbs of fruit, while the other is just an expensive lawn ornament. Plums are notorious for blooming early and losing everything to a ...
A pineapple grown in a pot is on life support; a pineapple grown in a guild is a self-sustaining powerhouse. In nature, pineapples don’t grow in sterile, isolated pots. They ...
The grocery store is selling you expensive water; your garden can give you infinite flavor. Stop being a consumer of plastic-wrapped, flavorless berries. Shifting your mindset from ‘row cropping’ to ...
If you are not cutting back 30 percent of your blueberry bush every winter, you are effectively stealing size from your own harvest. Counter-intuitive gardening: The more you cut, the ...