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Garden, Time, Observation: Three Keys To Successful Cannabis Breeding

Tom Wall

Cannabis breeding allows home growers to create prized varieties that can sell for up to $10,000 or more per plant. It may seem like an intangible task, but it is much easier than one might think. All you need is a garden, time, observation, and a strong desire to create something new in cannabis genetics.  …

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Keeping Mothers And Cuttings Uniform Critical In Plant Steering

Written by Doug Jacobs. Doug Jacobs is a Technical Advisor with Grodan. He provides expert consulting on proven Precision Growing methods to optimize crop production with Grodan Rockwool growing media and proper irrigation, producing the best quality plants using the least amount of inputs. He has experience with indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse hydroponics, vertical farms, aquaculture,…
October 12, 2020
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Edible Plants That You Can Find On The Beach

Ocean banks, beaches, and dunes have a rich flora. Surprisingly, many of the plants that grow on seashores are edible! Some rose bushes spontaneously grow on beaches and dunes. One of the species most commonly found in the northern hemisphere is the Rough Rose. It is indigenous to north China, Korea, Japan, and eastern Russia.…
October 5, 2020
Albert Mondor

Guerilla Gardening Brings Greenery To Barren Land

Pattern recognition is one of our most potent superpowers when it comes to survival. We know that those dents in the floor are animal tracks because we’ve seen the feet that made them. Millennia of observation taught us the patterns of the stars and seasons so we can use them for farming and navigation. A…
September 28, 2020
Martyna Król

Striving For Access to Nutritious, Locally Grown Food For All

Growing up in Jamaica, Jacqueline Dwyer and Noel Livingston remember eating like kings and queens. The warm climate allowed them plenty of fresh, nutritious foods year-round; their plates always displayed a rainbow of colors.  “I was just a kid, and I took for granted the access to good and healthy food I had all the…
September 21, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

Medicinal Weeds: The Many Benefits Of Wild Violets

Wild violets are some of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, covering lawns with tiny lilac and white flowers. Those who strive for golfing green lawns consider them weeds, but wild violets are incredibly useful and delicious to boot!   There are more than 500 species in the viola family, and most of them…
September 14, 2020
Caroline Rivard