My cold compost tower. Kitchen scraps, yard waste, and anything else organic I can put in and it’ll break down eventually. I have multiple in strategic locations around my yard.
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News Articles
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Plum tree issue
Hello everyone I’d like someone coaching on how to deal with this issue on my plum tree. As you can see from photos the bark around the base of the tree is cracked and has a clear jelly like substance oozing out. What organic solutions are there for this?
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Traditional Grains: A Path to Sensible and Relevant Food Security
Zimbabwe and many parts of Southern Africa have long relied on maize as the staple crop. However, the increasing climate variability even in good rainfall years like 2025 and the 2024 El Niño-induced drought have exposed maize’s vulnerabilities. Traditional grains such as finger millet, sorghum, and pearl millet are proving to be more resilient and sustainable, both nutritionally and environmentally. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has emphasized the importance of diversifying staple crops to improve food and nutrition security across the region. This piece shares the growing urgency around transitioning from maize to traditional grains such as finger millet, sorghum, and pearl millet, particularly in the context of arid Zimbabwe and broader Southern Africa.
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Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists
Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies.
Sardine and anchovy fishing will not be allowed for 12 miles (20km) around the penguin colony off Cape Town on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and Bird Island, across the bay from Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth. There will be more limited closures around four other colonies, according to a court order formalising the agreement.
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Confusion about nitrogen fixing plants
I am confused. Some websites say that gooseberries, blueberries, blackberries and elderberries are nitrogen fixing plants. Some websites deny this information. Which statement is correct then? Where can I find correct information about plants that actually fix nitrogen (books, website)? What plants (shrubs – potentially with edible fruits) do you suggest I plant in my food forest (EU – continental climate)?
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Do random plants growing on temporarily unused soil deplete it or enrich it?
I have a couple of planters i’ve dumped a mixture of soil and compost that i’ve yet to plant ( waiting for the seedling to germinate). In the meantime plenty of cucumbers , tomatoes and other random things are beginning to germinate there (from all of the kitchen scrap seeds I supposed) and I wonder if I should let them grow until my seedlings mature (and then kill them) or kill them now.
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Kikuyu vs orchard battle to the death
I have existing Kikuyu grass in the only area I can plant fruit trees. Should I remove this or is it possible to have grass paths? I presume the nice grass paths I see online would be a less aggressive grass. If I remove it, I’d plan to mow as low as possible and then poison as it is such a size that hand weeding wouldn’t work. Thoughts…?
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Creating my first permaculture design (NEED IDEAS)
Hi!
I just bought my first piece of land and i’m trying to design a permaculture garden on 1 acre of the property. It is not flat and has a depression running in the middle of the property which can be seen in the images (red curves display approximately the angles). There are a lot of wild blackberries growing like weeds so it think the soil type would fit in a clay category (if i’m not mistaken, I haven’t tested the soil yet). I basically divided this 1 acre into 4×8 squares (around 10x10m). Would like to hear suggestions on how to improve the design, if something needs to be rearranged more efficiently I’m very new to this.
Thanks
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The Week in Botany March 17, 2025
A round up of botany stories from the past week.
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