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Articles tagged with "food-forest"

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    Tall stand of flowering sunchoke plants along a homestead fence in early October with a crate of freshly dug knobby tubers in front
    3 Sep
    Food Forest

    Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes): How to Grow, Harvest and Keep Them in Bounds

    Peter Vogel
    Home orchardist making a pruning cut on a bare apple tree with loppers on a frosty late-winter morning
    31 Aug
    Food Forest

    When to Prune Fruit Trees, by Species and Climate Zone

    Peter Vogel
    Bundle of dormant bare root fruit trees on damp burlap beside a freshly dug planting hole in a late autumn garden
    28 Aug
    Food Forest

    Bare Root Fruit Trees: Timing, Planting and First-Year Care

    Peter Vogel
    Kitchen table seed stratification setup with labelled bags of damp sand, tree and wildflower seed, and a refrigerator behind
    24 Aug
    Food Forest

    Seed Stratification: How to Cold-Treat Seeds That Refuse to Sprout

    Peter Vogel
    Mixed native hedgerow in late spring along a property boundary with flowering elderberry and serviceberry, bees and a songbird
    24 Aug
    Food Forest

    How to Plant a Hedgerow: A Living Boundary for Food and Wildlife

    Peter Vogel
    A living willow fence along a garden boundary, freshly planted rods woven into a diagonal lattice and tied at the crossings with new leaves breaking
    21 Aug
    Food Forest

    Living Fence: How to Grow a Boundary That Grows Back

    Peter Vogel
    A row of pollarded willow trees in late winter, each with a knobbly trunk topped by a knuckle sending up dozens of slender new shoots
    21 Aug
    Food Forest

    Pollarding: How to Cut a Tree and Keep It Coming Back

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of a coppiced hazel stool with young straight shoots, cut poles, and a billhook in a woodland clearing
    19 Aug
    Food Forest

    Coppicing: The Ancient Cut That Makes Trees Grow Back Stronger

    Peter Vogel
    Pencil-crayon illustration of an espaliered apple tree trained in horizontal tiers against a brick wall with red apples
    19 Aug
    Food Forest

    Espalier Fruit Trees: Small-Space Training for Real Harvests

    Peter Vogel
    Freshly pruned backyard berry patch in late winter with bare blueberry stems, cut raspberry canes and a pile of prunings on frosted soil
    18 Aug
    Food Forest

    When to Prune Berry Bushes: Timing by Type and Zone

    Peter Vogel