Bountiful Backyards

Durham's edible landscaping cooperative

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@MikeWoodsonPls mic its time to come out of retirement and make a new twitter; news, new knicks coach

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Mushroom Workshop 12/14 & Winter Durham Tech Class - https://t.co/Nnj7DBZPdg

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https://t.co/sB83ZghuyT. I can only hope to do my job as diligently as Ntilikina god bless this brother

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And THIS is why the city loves Frank Ntilikina.

Give us that lunch pail attitude. Give us that John Starks snarl. Give us that New York Knicks defense. #NewYorkForever

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@KnicksMemes2 @MikeWoodsonPls Mic is there truth to the rumors....that u r a kandidate??? If Fiz is letgo??? 🙏 for this Twitter acct to reactivate

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Raised beds with as much compost as you can stuff in them only works to a point we need to connect gardens to the land around them...PATHS are vital (wood chips/straw etc); this can be regenerative

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“....along with estimates that mineral contents in vegetables have declined by 80-90% in the last 100 years...”. https://t.co/sVpFAXsWvE

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For vegetable gardening amending existing soil with organic fertilizers and minerals is just as if not more important than adding compost but this is not how it’s taught/relayed in 2019

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We have a choice and the capability to REMINERALIZE soils whatever we are growing in them

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Joseph Tainter in his exhaustive study of so called civilizations collapse trajectory cited 1) currency devaluation & 2) topsoil degradation as the 2 main factors🤔

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“...estimated that 45% of Americans are magnesium deficient...The high rate of magnesium deficiency....can be attributed...to a steady decline in general mg content in cultivated fruits/vegetables, a reflection of the...depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years”

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“Sometimes the best design tool is a chainsaw” Chuck Marsh RIP

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Finishing on Friday 100,000 gallon capacity rain garden thanks to all our growing Twitter audience for following this story we move slowly

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Outdoor plumbing coming back in style! 50-100k gallons of water coming off the typical roof per year

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DRAINAGES

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Butternut squash haul from about 50sq ft of beds one of very few easy and forgiving summer vegetables

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Medlars. Easier version of apples

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Asian Persimmon is a star, virtually immune to climate change diseases we’re seeing other fruit trees get. This one in Raleigh is 8 yrs old

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Shout out to our friends at El Chapin for pointing out the cardboard haul the only way w crape myrtles. SAD

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This is another reason why crape myrtles are the worst