Tyrant Farms http://www.tyrantfarms.com Know It or Grow It Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:10:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Recipe: Green Garlic Pesto http://www.tyrantfarms.com/recipe-green-garlic-pesto/ http://www.tyrantfarms.com/recipe-green-garlic-pesto/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:42:33 +0000 Aaron http://www.tyrantfarms.com/?p=2860 Organic green garlic growing at Tyrant Farms

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Fresh green garlic pesto made with heirloom hard-necked garlic grown on Tyrant Farms

How to make the world's best organic green garlic pesto (and kill vampires) using heirloom hard-necked garlic!

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How to Grow & Eat King Stropharia: The Gardener's Mushroom

A huge, easy-to-grow mushroom, the King Stropharia is an ideal mushroom for organic & permaculture gardeners and farmers to cultivate... and eat!

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]]> http://www.tyrantfarms.com/how-to-grow-eat-king-stropharia-the-gardeners-mushroom/feed/ 2 Math, plants & beauty: experiencing the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence http://www.tyrantfarms.com/garden-golden-ratio-fibonacci-sequence/ http://www.tyrantfarms.com/garden-golden-ratio-fibonacci-sequence/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:47:30 +0000 Aaron http://www.tyrantfarms.com/?p=2797 Romanesco broccoli - a beautiful equation at Tyrant Farms

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1187 (we didn't take this photo, NASA did).

Can our sense of beauty—from spiral galaxies to a sunflower—be attributed to mathematical equations? More importantly, how does that math taste? Meet (and eat) the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence!

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peach tree against blue sky at tyrant farms

Stories from the early stages of an urban food forest - utilizing permaculture methods to grow a beautiful, edible perennial landscape.

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue - We Eat Them Both and You Can Too

Our favorite edible flowers - how to grow and eat a variety of cold and warm-weather flowers, plus fun facts about each of them.

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pesticide warning

Tired of growing a monoculture grass yard? Don't worry, you're not alone. Millions of other grass farmers are fed up too. There's a better way!

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Saffron crocuses and heirloom carrots (grown from Baker Creek seeds) growing in the front yard at Tyrant Farms.

To say thanks for helping us reach 1,000 facebook fans, we're giving away two awesome prizes from Baker Creek, one of our favorite companies on the planet.

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hoophouse

Want to protect your seedlings or extend the growing season? Here's a guide showing you how to make a large, mobile hoophouse/small greenhouse on the cheap.

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dirt in hands - Tyrant Farms

Part 1 of the "Unsoil Your Dirty Mind" Series: Why should you care about dirt? What do you get in return? Come find out...

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Featured mountain lion - Tyrant Farms

One of the scariest tall tales you'll ever read... the Tyrant Farms mountain lion story.

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