Food Forests
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The Essential Guide to probably everything you need to know about Growing Medlar – Mespilus germanica
Medlars are ornamental, flowering trees with pretty white blossom, good autumn colours and fruits which are edible, and deliciously unusual! …
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The Essential Guide to Probably Everything you Need to Know about Growing Cornelian Cherry – Cornus mas
Cornellian Cherry is undoubtedly one of the easiest fruit you can grow in a temperate climate. The plants produce a…
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The Essential Guide to Probably Everything you Need to Know about Growing Persimmon
Highly regarded in Eastern culture for thousands of years, the Persimmon has rightly so started to gain more appreciation in…
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Starting a Food Forest for a Small Homestead in Zone 7
It’s an exciting time for Emma and me: Spring is approaching in North Carolina, and this year will mark the…
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Four Things For An Orchard
Orchards are magical spaces and productive places, requiring relatively little maintenance. If you’re thinking of planting one, there are 4…
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Phronêsis our new Forest Garden, Preparing Raised Beds and Edible Perennials
It’s been an eventful week here at the project, planting out the market garden crops, digging wildlife ponds and launching…
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Designing No-Work Food Gardens
These days my wife and I are the stereotypical Permaculture “lazy gardeners” that it’s become very fashionable to call “IMPOSSIBLE!”.…
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First Community Food Forest in the City of Melbourne
The Kensington Food Forest began with a dream to provide healthy nutritious organic food for our local Kensington community to…
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Five Years From Limestone Slab to Food Forest
Five years ago we moved to our current property in North Texas. While the general area is not particularly challenging,…
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Planting a Polyculture Orchard, Biomass Trials, the Forest Garden and Wildlife
We’re pleased to be joined by Lia this week who will be part of the team for the rest of…
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What is a Food Forest
Forests are ecosystems with a diversity of plants, animals, and fungi. They were designed by nature to have perfect balance.…
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Spring in the Gardens, Fruit Trees in Blossom and Ground Covers
Just one week to go before the arrival of our 2019 Polyculture Study team and we’re getting ready and looking forward to…
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