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Land regeneration – permaculture in action?
One of the principles of permaculture is to regenerate the land following the sequence in which ultimately climax forest vegetation develops in nature – after say a forest fire where the land is...
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Graham Bell – The #Permaculture Garden
Permaculture Garden As I mentioned in the last post, I was reading Graham’s Permaculture Garden while I was on Holiday. In over 40 years of Gardening I’ve read lots of books and there aren’t many...
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Planning a Forest Garden – the intent
I’ve been working for some time now on a project to send a “garden in a box” to refugee camps in the Sahara with Martin Dewhurst. It’s called New Dawn Rovers. One of the big issues is that there’s a...
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Planning the Forest Garden – part 1
As the snow is thawing away, it’s time to get on with it. I’ve been following the Permaculture maxim of spending a lot of time thinking about it before actually getting on with and have been thinking a...
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Planting the Woodland Garden – 1 getting the trees in place
One of the principles of permaculture is stacking – three dimensional planting. So this means that are going to use fruit trees as the basis of our design. We plan to plant fruit bushes in between the...
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How to do Sheet Mulching
Sheet Mulching is a technique useful in converting grass or flower beds into productive ground. We are using it as a technique for building our forest garden by using it as part of the sequence...
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As part of the Woodland Garden project we have been constructing a hedge on the outside to discourage deer. We’ve been following the principle of making maximum use of what’s already there so we’ve...
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Visit to the Alara forest Garden in King’s Cross
A few weeks ago I was invited to the launch of the a DEFRA innovation project. One of the speakers was Alex Smith of Alara who runs a Muesli factory in King’s Cross. As well as giving us some good...
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The Woodland Garden starts to get established.
Three months into the project, the fruit trees are all deer fenced in (having lost a bit of the Braeburn and the set fruit through complacency). We’ve used a really lightweight approach using plastic...
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