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Longleaf Breeze — 274 episodes

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273 - Big Changes at LongleafBreeze.com

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272 - Here Comes Spring!

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271 - A Few More Longleafs Every Year

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270 - The Gritty Realities of Heating with Wood

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269 - Getting Through a Wicked Freeze

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268 - As We Enter 2015 . . .

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267 - Limping Into Christmas

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266 - Vinegar on the Farm

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265 - Slaughtering Chickens

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264 - We are Thankful for . . .

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263 - January in November

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262 - Growing Fruit at Home

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261 - Raising Baby Chicks

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260 - Garlic Planting Time

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259 - R.I.P. Summertime

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258 - Grandmere’s Neglected Garden

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257 - Tiny Houses

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256 - In Praise of Persimmons

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255 - Can We Make Our Farm Less Oily?

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254 - Chickens: the Good, the Bad, and the (Still) Unknown

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253 - Summer Sprints to the Finish Line

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252 - When to Hire Help? DIY?

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251 - Chatting with Master Gardeners About the Fall

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250 - Uh-oh. Firewood. Now!

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249 - After Years of Waiting, Abundant Fruit

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248 - Let's Hear It For Diversity!

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247 - What We're Learning About Squash

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246 - Invaders On Every Flank

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245 - Can Subsistence Farmers Ever Vacation?

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244 - Independence Days

31

243 - These Long, Sultry Days

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242 - Cracking the Code on Potatoes

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241 - Chicken Tips From an Expert

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240 - Gifts From Our Elders

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239 - Planting Pecans – Yeah, We’re WAY Behind

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238 - Q and A from Planting That Garden

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237 - It's Not Too Late To Plant That Garden

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236 - The Shock Collar That Saved Our Dog

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235 - Resilient Landscape Design: Way Past Pretty

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234 - On the Chicken Learning Curve

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233 - We Have Chickens!

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232 - What Does It Take To Be a Subsistence Farmer?

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231 - The Care and Cussin' of Weeds

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230 - A Wicked Late Freeze

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229 - First Report on the Storm Shelter/Root Cellar

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228 - The Great Raised Bed Do-Over

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227 - Subsistence Farming in a Zero Growth Economy

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226 - Pruning Ornamentals

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225 - Pruning Time in the Orchard

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224 - If You're Serious About Longleaf Pines . . .

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223 - Planting Longleaf Pines

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222 - What a Difference a Forecast Makes!

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221 - Report on Southern SAWG

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220 - 10 Above Is Cold in Alabama

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219 - Food Sovereignty Down Under

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218 - Year-End Review

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217 - Thinking THrough Options for Grains

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216 - Advice for New Gardeners

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215 - The Season for Gardeners' Porn

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214 - Riddles About Freeze Damage to Fall Vegetables

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213 - We Are Thankful

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212 - Morse Code - Truly Resilient Communication

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211 - Goodbye Summer!

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210 - This Garden Never Closes

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209 - Things That Really Scare Us

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208 - What We've Learned About Using a Clothesline

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207 - Meanwhile, Back Here On the Farm . . .

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206 - Russ Hopfenberg – Growing More Food Won’t Solve Hunger Problem

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205 - Hayes Jackson on Gardening in Dry Places

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204 - Erik Curren of Transition Voice on Sustainable Farming "Mania"

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203 - Gabe Brown, Soil Builder

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202 - Gone Too Long

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201 - Dr David Domermuth - Making Biochar Economically

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200 - Fall Vegetables

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199 - Climate Change and Your Garden

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198 - Jim Davis, Natural Beekeeper

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197 - Firming Up Our Pecan Strategy

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196 - A Day in the Life . . .

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195 - What We Have Here, is Cucumbers

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194 - Accepting the Mystery of Growing Things

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193 - When It Rains . . .

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192 - Celebrating Dependence Day

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191 - Our Eight-Month Fruit Season

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190 - Managing Humidity in the Deep South

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189 - General Update

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188 - Big Plans for Pecans

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187 - A Strawberry Summary

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186 - Whew! Safe From Vampires

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185 - Gearing Up for the Heat

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184 - The Winter of 2012-13

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183 - About Our Pond

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182 - Finishing the Raised Beds

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181 - Spring Update

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180 - Raised Beds and the Home Vegetable Garden

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179 - Of Moles, Voles, and Impolite Language

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178 - Ouch! A Late Spring Freeze

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177 - Filling In the Orchard

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176 - Our First Big Event

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175 - Record Keeping Matters

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174 - Starting Seed

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173 - Growing Plans

102

172 - Getting Started Growing Food

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171 - Putting Firewood By

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170 - Food Storage Part 2

105

169 - Food Storage Part 1

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168 - Seasonal Affective "Disorder"

107

167 - First Report on the Lodge

108

166 - What Are Our Must Haves?

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165 - Looking Back, Looking Forward

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164 - Holiday Greetings from Longleaf Breeze

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163 - Producing, Not Just Consuming

112

162 - December Update

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161 - The Raised Beds Are Ready; Now What?

114

160 - Giving Thanks

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159 - So You Want To Go Solar - Part 2

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158 - So You Want To Go Solar - Part 1

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157 - Why Don't More of Us Heat with Wood?

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156 - Our Faith and Subsistence Farming

119

155 - Guilty Pleasures

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154 - Sustainable Landscaping

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153 - What a Difference a Driveway Makes

122

152 - What We've Learned About Building Soil

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151 - Veg Hill 2.0

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150 - The Fruits of 2012

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149 - Transitioning to the Fall

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148 - Becoming Farmers Again

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147 - Making a Clothesline Work for You

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146 - The Lodge Is Open

129

145 - Slowing Down the Electric Meter

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144 - First Fruits

131

143 - Presentation To Master Gardeners on Resilience

132

142 - Gearing Up for One-Armed Farming

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141 - Producing Through the Heat of the Summer

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140 - If You Want To Help Organic Subsistence Farmers

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139 - What If We Were Doing This in the City?

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138 - Toward a Subsistence Diet

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137 - General Update

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136 - Shifting Toward Perennials

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135 - Back, Community. Back!

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134 - Annual Review Part 3 - No Allness Statements

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133 - Annual Review Part 2 - Gotta Be Fun

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132 - Annual Review Part 1 - Approaching Subsistence

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131 - Lupin Is Pretty Cool

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130 - About That Lodge . . .

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129 - Transitioning Into Summertime

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128 - Chicken Dreams Morphing into Plans

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127 - Beginners No More

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126 - Growing Fruit in a Hotter Orchard

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125 - Asparagus!

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124 - What Happened To . . . ?

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123 - Kickin' It Back Up

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122 - A Culture of Poison

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121 - Critters in the Garden

154

120 - Preparing the Forest for a Scary Future

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119 - Let's Talk Brassicas

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118 - All About Seed

157

117 - Orchard and Fruit Update

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116 - Looking Back, Looking Forward

159

115 - Eating What We Own

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114 - Proud to Wish You "Happy Holidays"

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113 - Real Books Will Matter Again

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112 - Farming in a Hotter World

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111 - Emerald Mountain Garden Club

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110 - Giving Thanks

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109 - Why Are Cover Crops So Difficult?

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108 - Reclaiming Our Lives, Reclaiming the Farm

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107 - The Big W

168

106 - Young Future Farmers

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105 - Growing Fall Vegetables in Alabama

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104 - Sliding Gently into Fall

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103 - What To Do with All These Green Beans?

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102 - All Things Orchard

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101 - The Database Is Back!

174

100 - Century!

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099 - Holidays on the Farm

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098 - Cooking Weather

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097 - Let's Move Thanksgiving!

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096 - They Grow Things Differently Out There

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095 - Pomp and Circumstance

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094 - Giving Food Away

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093 - Why We Farm

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092 - All About Food

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091 - Suddenly Peas

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090 - Conversation with Adrian and Eli

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089 - Endings

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088 - If Spring Was Summer, What will Summer Be?

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087 - Building Our Storm Shelter/Root Cellar

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086 - Just Hangin' On

189

085 - It's All Good

190

084 - Cover Crops and Crop Rotation

191

083 - Spring Planting

192

082 - Annual Progress Report

193

081 - We Mourn With Our State

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080 - About That Lodge . . .

195

079 - Do We Really Need 80 Tomato Plants?

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078 - Our Poor, Neglected Farm

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077 - Woulda' Coulda' Shoulda'

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076 - A Loving Dialogue About "Stuff"

199

075 - Saying Goodbye To Our City Life

200

074 - Coping with (and Reveling in) Distractions

201

073 - Watching the Farm Wake Up from Winter

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072 - Subsistence Farming After Peak Oil

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071 - The Trees are Planted, but We're Not Finished

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070 - Planting 74 Fruit Trees!

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069 - Holding On To Our Orchard for Dear Life

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068 - The Orchard Expansion Gets Real

207

067 - Debriefing on Southern SAWG

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066 - Heating with a Wood Stove

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065 - How Much Land Do You Need?

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064 - The Orchard Expansion is Underway!

211

063 - What We're Expecting in 2011

212

062 - A Merry UnChristmas at the Farm

213

061 - God Bless Fall Veg!

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060 - Living in a Tiny Space

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059 - Are We Really Hunters?

216

058 - Giving Thanks

217

057 - Unwrapping the Fall Veg

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056 - What a Difference One Night Makes!

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055 - Post Mortem On Our First Summer

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054 - HACKED!

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0053 - Happy Birthday to Us!

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0052 - Acid, Acid, Acid!

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0051 - Pondering Persimmons

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0050 - Advice from Other Farmers

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049 - Row Cover for Fall Vegetables

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048 - All About Compost

227

047 - Pear Preserves

228

046 - Looking Forward to Fall

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045 - Beginning Master Gardener Classes

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044 - Trellises, Trellises

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043 - Organizing for a Coherent Farm Life

232

042 - Thank God for Okra

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041 - Fall Garden Prep Time

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040 - Master Gardener, Here We Come!

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039 - Surviving Without Air Conditioning

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038 - Cover Crops at the Crossroads

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037 - Can We Grow Enough Food?

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036 - Let's Talk Weeds

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035 - We Love Drip Irrigation!

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034 - Blueberries for Breakfast

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033 - First Fruits

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032 - Precious, Precious Water

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031 - Is Bare Soil SO Bad?

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030 - Ryegrass Blunder

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029 - Planting, Planting, and More Planting

246

028 - Questions from Blakeley's Class, Part 2

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027 - Questions from Blakeley's Class, Part 1

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026 - Painful Role Changes

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025 - Family Reactions

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024 - Spring is Busting!

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023 - Welcoming Visitors

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022 - Deer Fence!

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021 - Shopping for Seeds

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020 - Real Progress on the Deer Fence

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019 - Big Plans for Blueberries

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018 - Planting Fruit Trees

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017 - Too Many Tasks

258

016 - Shaping Up Veg Hill

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015 - Debriefing from Southern SAWG

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014 - Preparing for Southern SAWG

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013 - Staying Warm

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012 - Stressed to the Max

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011 - Family Conversation

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010 - Are We Making a Huge Mistake?

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009 - A World Too Wet

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008 - Tankless Water Heater

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007 - Giving Thanks

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006 - The Big Move

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005 - Fighting with Each Other

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004 - No Allness Statements

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003 - It's Gotta Be Fun

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002 - Approaching Subsistence

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001 - Deer Fence

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000 - Introduction