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What is permaculture? (2015)

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How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)

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Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again

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Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot

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“Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers

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Reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity: research

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RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller

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Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants

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A genetic modification boosts grain yields, shortens the growth duration of rice

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Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (2016)

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Growing food in hard clay

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World’s largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City

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Sustainable coffee grown in Finland with cellular agriculture

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Replacing grass lawns with native plants

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Atomic Gardening

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Home Gardening

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The gently competitive world of giant vegetable growing

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Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice

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Hugelkultur: Raised Garden Beds

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A Nearly Extinct Bootlegger's Corn Gets a Second Shot (2018)

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People are planting more vegetable gardens

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A quiet roadside revolution is boosting wildflowers

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MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work

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Small Seasons

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Give Your Yard Back to Nature

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault

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Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies

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Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' in Search of More Productive Crops

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Can Dirt Save the Earth?

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Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops

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The rise of the robot farmer

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New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers

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Bellwoods – a Generative Art web game in 13 kilobytes

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Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble for Its New Weedkiller

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Can American soil be brought back to life?

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A backlash against the herbicide Dicamba

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Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store

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Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control

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My township calls my lawn ‘a nuisance’ (2015)

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Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars

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Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm

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How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?

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The Rube Goldberg of Rice

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Linux for Lettuce

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Hugelkultur: the ultimate raised garden beds

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Plant Breeders Release First 'Open Source Seeds'

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Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland

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Google: Mowing lawn with goats

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Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

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The road to hell is paved with asphalt

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Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants

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Vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

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Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants

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Cities need more trees

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Decline of Indian vultures

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