General Garden Banter What are you growing out this year? To till or not to till, hybrids or old fashioned heirloom goodness. Mulch? We don't need no stinking mulch Moderators: Alan, kimikat
Backyard, Container, and small holdings Gardening Got a small garden? Container gardens? Do you grow bio-intensive to save space and expand your fresh food offerings? This is the place for you my friends.
Solanaceae (tomatoes, Pepers, Eggplants, ect) Love those beautiful globes of homegrown goodness. We like 'em Strange here. From Red to black, white to green, and all the colors in between. Tell us what you love. Moderators: Alan, kimikat
Plant Variety Reviews Taking a page from our resident pea breeder Rebsie, I am adding this Plant Variety Review page. The general idea is that you can post your reviews of seeds and plants here along with photos. When you make a post or reply to a post with your experiences please be sure to list your location so that others that live in you area can use your information about that region to make a decision about discussed varieties. Moderator: Alan
Home Brewing I've noticed a lot of folks talking about brewing their own and would like to get in on the action myself. I thought it might be great to have a forrum dedicated to those interested in brewing their own. Be it moonshine, ale, lager, or wine. Knowledge is power, share with us weaklings! Moderator: Alan
Hybridizing and Segragation experiments Hybridizing your own produce or flowers. Doing the work of mother nature? Segragating and selecting qualities from popular hybrids so you don't have to pay big seed prices to the box store? Tell us about it. Moderators: Alan, kimikat
Tobacco Got a bad habbit? Can't quit? Grow your own smoke. Or grow for looks, either way it's all good and becoming an incredibly rare garden plant. Learn everything from seed starting to curing, aging to smoking. Moderators: Alan, kimikat
Aquaculture, Aquaphonics, Hydrophonics Here is a place for experimenters in fish culture, hydrophonics, and even Vaquaphonics (worms,fish,plants) can discuss experiments and methods. The future of food may depend on many of these methods. Vegetable and Protein production. Moderator: Alan
Growing for market Do you grow for your local markets. If so this is a place for you to share your methods with other market gardeners and customers. Moderator: Alan
Bee Keeping So do you have some hives? Interested in starting a few? Or, do you just love the taste of honey and know some great sources! Tell us here. Moderator: Alan
Spotlight On Homegrown Goodness This area will be for a bi-monthly interview with various member of Homegrown Goodness as well as Seed Preservationist, and Independent Plant Breeders. Moderator: Alan
Bishop's Homegrown and Hip-Gnosis Seed Development
Hip-Gnosis and Homegrown Interviews Here is an archive of all of our interviews, preserved for posterity. Commenting is disabled here but copies of each interview is posted in the Spotlight on Homegrown Goodness section where you can discuss future interviews and current interviews and the topics covered. Moderator: Alan
Hip-Gnosis Seed Development: Available Seed and Breeding Projects Hip-Gnosis Seed Development is the lifelong work of Alan Bishop working to breed new, novel, tasty, beautiful and nutritious varieties of food and flowerplants for the general public by way of open source, genetically diverse seed distribution and devlopment of new varieties both alone and with the help of interested and adventerous gardeners and market farmers the world over! Moderator: Alan
Hip-Gnosis Seed Development: Editorials and Research Articles Where you can check out all the latest articles coming from Hip-Gnosis Seed Development and Alan Bishop. Everything from Agricultural History, GMO Watch, and Research and Development Papers pertaining to our ongoing work in genetically diverse, small farm, plant breeding and open source, copy left, seed development and distribution. Moderator: Alan
'Sang and Yella' root and other medicinal herbs of interest Ginseng and Yellow root (golden seal) are just two of the many important medicinal wild roots that should be protected and kept sustainable. Theres also a lot of money to be made from their cultivation. Got a patch, tell us your methods. You can also use this area to talk about other medicinal plants of the forrest or field persuasion! Moderator: Alan
Hunting and Fishing Are you a hunter? Deer, Rabbit, Turkey. This is not a braging forum for trophey hunters, this is for those who live off the land. Moderators: Alan, kimikat
Saving Diversity by Bio-Regions This will now be an area to discuss methods and the merits of saving our diversity according to bio-region. Of particular interest is the Appalachian Mountain Region, Peruvian crops, and Oaxacan Mexico. Moderator: Alan
Seed Saving Saving seed isn't just a great past time it is an absolute necessity in todays world of high prices, sustainability and Genetically modified organisms. Share your methods here. Moderator: Alan
a little about yourself Who are you? What hobbies do you share, what defines the person you are from the person at work every day? Tell us about your music, your hobbies, you family. Play nice! Moderator: Alan
Soapbox Got something to rant about? Feel free, but play nice. This forum will be moderated. Main rule: Pryor to ranting you must say "Stands on soapbox" after ranting must say "Steps down from soapbox" Moderator: Alan
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