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Amendments
Amendments includes everything you add to your acreage to help those plants grow. Think compost, fertilizer, mulch and beyond.
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Apple Varieties
There are thousands of apple varieties out there. Read about them here, add your favorites or comment on others.
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Books
This is the space to recommend some of your favorite horticulture related tomes. This may be a gardening book, a plant or soil science textbook or maybe just essays and reflections of farming.
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Disease
Plant diseases can make growing plants more difficult, but there is hope. Let's learn about them, find remedies and share our experiences.
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Farms
This is the space to plug your favorite farm. The best insight will come from those you have visited, folks you know, but especially those those that set the bar high for good farming practices, ingenuity and dedication to their community and the environment. Sure this could be your own farm, a local haunt or one you magically stumbled upon during a trip abroad.
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Memberships and Certifications
There are great many organizations and certification bodies a farmer or homesteader may join. Some set rules and require inspection. Some pride themselves on providing aid and advice. What do we know about these bodies? What are your experiences with them?
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Orchard Maintenance
Everything we physically do in that orchard or homestead to keep things healthy and tidy, all season long.
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Orchard Philosophy
Conventional, organic, bidynamic are a few of many approaches. Do you favor an ecosystem approach? No till? Hands off?
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Out of the Box
This is the place to add experiences, information and questions that don't seem to fit in other categories.
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Pests
Pests can be, well, a pest. Insects, deer, gophers and bears can be just a few of many interlopers in the garden and field.
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Plant People
Who are your heroes in the world of farming and horticulture? A hands in the dirt farmer, a scientist, a cider maker, or maybe a writer or speaker? This may be someone unknown that is a personal friend, a superstar or one gone long ago. Who is someone that made a green mark on you?
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Pruning
An often necessary part of healthy tree, bush and vine management. Here we discuss the many approaches and experiences involved.
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Species
This space is specifically for species discussion, that defined in scientific nomenclature. For example, malus coronaria and malus domestica are species (g-s) but McIntosh is labeled a variety (or more correctly a cultivar). So, here we would discuss the malus domestica species in general (this being the pool of domesticated produce apple), but the McIntosh chat should be located in the Varieties pages.
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Sustainable Practices
Here we muse on the future of our culture and its relationship to farming, gardening, forest management and our entire food system.
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Amendments