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How to grow your own Broccoli microgreens at home in 8-10 days |become self-sufficient |EN + NL subs

By letter2self on March 14, 2024

Grow your own organic Broccoli microgreens at home in 8-10 days. Microgreens can easily be grown indoors on any windowsill. Find recipe videos, harvest videos, and videos on how to grow other types of microgreens on our channel. Leave a comment or contact us through our socials if you have any questions. Please subscribe to…

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Three of the Easiest Apple Trees to Grow in Cold Climates #appletrees #fruittrees #organic

By letter2self on March 13, 2024

Bob Osborne, author of Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates, talks about his three favorite easier-to-grow hardy apple trees. #appletree This is a short excerpt from an hour long episode of The Urban Forestry Radio Show and Podcast. Listen to the entire podcast here: https://urbanforestryradio.transistor.fm/episodes/growing-hardy-apple-trees Buy a copy of Bob’s book here (affiliate link):…

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Why you should compost your pumpkin instead of throwing it out

By letter2self on March 13, 2024

If you’re looking for pumpkin composting locations, Pumpkin Smash offers nearly 60 locations across Illinois to recycle your pumpkins. Find a location near you: https://abc7chicago.com/pumpkin-composting-near-me-recycling-smash-naperville/12405599/ Source

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Ecuagenera Unboxing | 2 month Update | How are the imported plants doing?

By letter2self on March 13, 2024

Join me as I go through how the plant imports have faired after their first 2 months, what has survived, what has thrived and what is hanging on by a thread. This is a follow up video from my Ecuagenera plant haul/ plant unboxing video Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:25 Anthurium esmeraldense 04:53 Anthurium pedatum 08:43…

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How Much to Grow for Self Sufficiency | Food Security and Resilience

By letter2self on March 12, 2024

How Much to Grow for Self Sufficency | Food Security and Resilience. I am often asked How much food do I need to grow to be self sufficient? Here is an explanation of how to decide and how to plan to grow enough for food security with some resilience built in to your gardening plans.…

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Crisis, Hope, and Permaculture

By letter2self on March 11, 2024

Our documentary called “Green is the New Silver (Lining): Crisis, Hope and Permaculture” is live! Check out the short trailer, then click here to see the full 40-minute video: https://www.discoverpermaculture.com/permaculture-masterclass-video-1 This film covers a great deal of ground: a brief introduction to permaculture, personal stories about how I got started, an overview of the Greening…

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Human composting: The rising interest in natural burial

By letter2self on March 11, 2024

Natural organic reduction, more simply known as human composting, is a natural process that transforms the body into soil. It has become a recognized alternative to embalming, and a climate-friendly option compared to cremation. Correspondent Ben Tracy visits the Seattle funeral home Recompose, the first human composting facility in the country, and talks with those…

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Pruning jade plants (crassula, money plant)

By letter2self on March 11, 2024

Sometimes jades need a trim so that they can be both better looking and healthier. Like most succulents, jades (crassula, aka; money tree) tolerate pruning pretty well. But still, there’s no need to make more cuts than what’s best for our plant. And it’s not good to unnecessarily traumatize the plant, or interfere too much…

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How to fix common indoor plant problems | Indoor Plants | Gardening Australia

By letter2self on March 10, 2024

Tammy takes us through the spectacular but sometimes difficult plants in the Marantaceae family. Subscribe http://ab.co/GA-subscribe Known to many plant people as calatheas (many now in Goeppertia genus), marantas (prayer plants), ctenanthes, and stromanthes; they are grown for their stunning foliage patterns, colours and shapes. Unfortunately, they are also notoriously tricky to keep happy and…

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Bamboo in Permaculture with Brendon McKeon “Living Permaculture” Episode 1

By letter2self on March 9, 2024

Click this link to learn more about Bamboo in Permaculture http://youtu.be/pcgFC3Q3CNA We love this diverse use Bamboo species…it is good for so many things in permaculture. Bamboo Multiplex is a thin reed clumping bamboo used for hedges, erosion control, mulch, contour lines, privacy borders, etc. It has a very deep rooting system which makes it…

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