Kyle’s Seed, Start, and Scion Wishlist

Listed are some priority plant materials I intend to beg/borrow/steal/trade for my hobby nursery and food savanna. This excludes the plant materials I'm able to scrounge locally, Also ommitted are plants I intend to obtain through native plant specialists or my own collection trips. Provenance is important to me, and everything needs to be at … Continue reading Kyle’s Seed, Start, and Scion Wishlist

Kyle’s Botany Breakdown: Legumes

I look at botany with a mind for appropriate land-use in my bioregion, the Inland Northwest. Some themes: -wild foods -perennial crops -wild crop relatives -cover crops -selection, breeding, and hybridization for crop improvement -game/livestock/megafauna forages -prairie restoration -biodiversity -extensive land management (non-tillage, non-irrigation, herbivore inclusion ext.) -small-scale, high-value silviculture -"macro flora" (capacity for significant … Continue reading Kyle’s Botany Breakdown: Legumes