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Ashley Adamant at Practical Self Reliance has written a great article about Seed Vaults. At least I think it is great, because she makes so many p...
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In December of 2017, we planted garlic to harvest for the farmers market. Since we are located in the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas (really at the int...
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We chose this corn variety because it is a solid performer that has been around since 1847. It is a non-hybrid heirloom variety, so you can save s...
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Parching corn is somewhere between corn nuts and popcorn. Native american used it for travel food since it had a good storage life and was nutriti...
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For years my wife has wanted to raise honey bees. As a purely academic question, bees seemed interesting to me but getting stung didn’t seem like ...
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Journal of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542) Translated by Fanny Bandelier:
While with them it happened many times that we were three or four days ...
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We planted Ouachita and Natchez blackberries (25 root cuttings each) from Womack Nursery in Spring 2017. This is the first year we got a good har...
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Walking around the farm this spring, I noticed some pretty blooms. On further inspection, it is a peach tree!
Someone must have thrown out a peac...
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We purchased several different citrus trees from the Bluebonnet Master Gardener Fruit Tree Sale in 2017. We ate our first Rio Red grapefruit and i...
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Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) is a passion flower native to Texas and Oklahoma and the SE US. I first saw a maypop when I was hiking with my wife ...
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We harvested our first peach from our new fruit trees! It is a Rio Grande peach.
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