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Longleaf Breeze
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Weekly update from two subsistence organic farmers in the deep South
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233 - We Have Chickens!
Longleaf Breeze
12y ago
14:04
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#Now we finally have a start with chickens. Four pu
232 - What Does It Take To Be a Subsistence Farmer?
Longleaf Breeze
12y ago
23:38
231 - The Care and Cussin' of Weeds
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12y ago
18:49
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230 - A Wicked Late Freeze
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12y ago
19:25
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229 - First Report on the Storm Shelter/Root Cellar
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12y ago
0:00
228 - The Great Raised Bed Do-Over
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12y ago
16:13
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227 - Subsistence Farming in a Zero Growth Economy
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12y ago
20:13
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226 - Pruning Ornamentals
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12y ago
24:21
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225 - Pruning Time in the Orchard
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12y ago
17:45
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224 - If You're Serious About Longleaf Pines . . .
Longleaf Breeze
12y ago
21:52
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223 - Planting Longleaf Pines
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12y ago
23:56
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222 - What a Difference a Forecast Makes!
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12y ago
13:37
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221 - Report on Southern SAWG
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12y ago
22:17
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220 - 10 Above Is Cold in Alabama
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13y ago
18:44
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219 - Food Sovereignty Down Under
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13y ago
27:29
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218 - Year-End Review
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13y ago
19:51
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217 - Thinking THrough Options for Grains
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13y ago
24:18
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216 - Advice for New Gardeners
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13y ago
22:02
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215 - The Season for Gardeners' Porn
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13y ago
18:24
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214 - Riddles About Freeze Damage to Fall Vegetables
Longleaf Breeze
13y ago
20:48
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#We spell out what we think most people would need
#We're constantly experimenting
#Looking for ways we can reduce the time we spend c
#But more often we're looking for ways to eliminate
#Tuesday night the temperature hovered below freezi
#Plums
#Apples
#Muscadines
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#It's surrounded on all sides by earth and reinforc
#Wine
#J.A.M.
#Pepper sauce
#When we designed and built our 16 raised beds last
#We omitted what we now know was a crucial step. We
#But we had no choice
#Economic growth is pretty much done in the US. The
#But most of us know better. The more we can produc
#The happier we can be while making little or no mo
#Our focus is on growing food
#But in February we prune ornamentals too. This pro
#February is our big pruning month. I love it
#Working quietly using no noisy equipment. And prun
#Trying to guess where the tree wants to grow and d
#We welcome my brother Dave Borden. He's the smarte
#How he prepares to plant them
#And why and how he works so hard to keep their co
#Every year we plant about 300 longleaf pines. It’s
#It’s fun
#And it helps prepare the farm for the coming clima
#They're fire-resistant
#We in the South are still reeling from a winter st
#But our friends in Birmingham got a surprise wallo
#We continue to be blown away at the sheer size of
#Attracting 1
#000 or so organic and sustainable farmers from acr
#Exchange ideas
#Last week the temperature stayed below 15 degrees
#This week we learn about the People’s Food Plan fo
#The National Coordinator of the Australian Food So
#We reflect on 2013. We had our best harvest ever o
#Peaches
#Pears
#Apples
#The hard red wheat that makes the best bread doesn
#Rye
#Rice
#Barley
#Start and stay organic
#Learn from research
#Start small
#Grow close to where you live
#It's time to buy seeds for the spring. They're fre
#But Amanda still prefers those paper catalogs. She
#Carefully calculating the many options available t
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#We play detective. Taking each factor known to aff
#We try to determine what made the difference betwe
#Broccoli
#And cabbage growing 20 miles away at Wetumpka and
