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21 Choice Perennial Vegetables For 4-Season Climates

21 Choice Perennial Vegetables For 4-Season Climates

When I first discovered perennial gardening, designing a collection of high-quality, perennial green vegetables was complex and confusing...

How I Make Seltzer at Home for Pennies

How I Make Seltzer at Home for Pennies

Making seltzer at home is a little off-topic for the Food Forest blog. That said, cutting waste, being environmentally responsible, and saving mon...

Four Perennial Beans for your Food Forest

Four Perennial Beans for your Food Forest

Harvesting atmospheric nitrogen is one of the keys to repairing degraded soil. Perennial beans can be helpful in that regard but can also overtake...

How Does a Sunflower Track the Sun?

How Does a Sunflower Track the Sun?

I never understood how, and why, sunflowers face the sun, so I did a bit of digging and found several interesting answers!

Top 10 Reasons to Love Sea Kale

Top 10 Reasons to Love Sea Kale

If you know me at all as a gardener, you know that I’m a huge sea kale advocate. Every year I save bundles of root cuttings for recruitment of new...

Grow Asian Pears for 2¢ Each!

Grow Asian Pears for 2¢ Each!

Did you just pay $1.50 for that Asian pear? You are not alone! What you might not realize is that Asian pears are extremely easy to grow, requiring little or no attention once established...