Trees
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A Quick Guide To Tree Climbing Gear For Arborists
Trees have always been a valuable element in the environment. Without trees, there won’t be any fresh air nor do…
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Growing Trees From Seed
As a permaculture designer, I think, I should be growing my trees from seeds I collect. There is a lot…
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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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Growing a fig tree up a wall
Our garden has some constraints: (a) available space; and (b) available sunlight. Taken together it was not possible to generate…
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A Year in the Life of a Deciduous Tree and Understanding Our Role as Facilitators
Unlike other methods of growing food, in permaculture, we try to understand the natural order of things and do our…
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Nitrogen Fixation
An essential component of any regenerative landscape will be the Nitrogen-fixing perennial plants within the community of fruits, nuts and…
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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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Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture
I’m so looking forward to the spring to meet our Polyculture Study crew and get back into the gardens. This…
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Wild about Persimmons
I didn’t grow up eating persimmons. Somehow they made it into my vocabulary but never my diet. My British wife…
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Why I Love to Research
I have three distinct memories of trees, other than as objects to climb, when I was a child. At my…
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Fast-Growing Trees for the UK Climate
We think of gardening as a time-consuming, patient, often passive activity. This is often true, but even the best and…
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Tropical Permaculture Perspectives
Visiting Por Phat Aphaimool’s forest farm in Mae Tha, Chiang Mai, again after a long time was a chance to…
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