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Seasonal Confusion & Plant Genetics
In the back are all the tomatoes and peppers. Up front are the rooting gooseberries and currants, and on the right are the figs!! Happy spring equinox everyone! Although it feels more like the summer...
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Rise Up Ye, Sons of !Frankentree!
Son of !Frankentree! - He now has 22 varieties of apples grafted onto him!!! Mary Shelley and her Dr. Frankenstein would be proud. Human ingenuity at it’s best – fruit tree grafting and the creation of...
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Winter 2013 Updates – Birthdays, Biodiversity, and More Space
On February 7th The North American Scion Exchange celebrated its first birthday. What started out as a simple Craigslist posting here in St. Paul, Minnesota to swap scion wood and other plant...
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The Fruit Hunters
Haskap Berries from our Garden!! Recently my friend John who is a fellow fruit enthusiast like myself and helps run the NASE with me, sent me an email with a link to a program entitled The Fruit...
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Guerrilla Forest Gardens
The GreenJacker!!! In the last few years a popular meme growing throughout the ether of the inter-webs is the idea of guerrilla gardening. The idea of guerrilla gardening is really quite simple, but...
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Finding McIntosh
Here is a McIntosh apple, a beauty to behold! Editors note – Since the publication of this essay, there has been a little debate on the NAFEX facebook page as to what the true identity of this apple...
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Grafting Class!
Grafting Class with Andy! Happy winter everyone! There has been a lot of great stuff happening here at the Dead End Alley Farm, so much in fact there has been very little time for contemplation or...
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A DIY Tree Grafting Handout
So this is a handout I just put together for a few grafting workshops I will be teaching in the upcoming weeks! I am pretty excited to be sharing some awesome homesteading skills with people who want...
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