polyculture
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Plants
Polyculture Profiles – Perennial Infrastructure Polyculture – Edible Hedge/Windbreak/Biomass – Terminus
Welcome to our second Polyculture Profile in a series we are posting on this blog. This four-species design highlights well…
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Plants
Polyculture Profiles – Perennial Productive Polyculture- Asparagus, Garlic Chive, Strawberry – Plutus
We are starting a new section of the blog where we publish polyculture profiles, some of which we are growing…
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Permaculture Projects
Winding down and a Photo Exhibition
The ESC project that we have been co-hosting with Green School Village is drawing to a close, and with it a sense of…
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Permaculture Projects
Planting out the Butterfly Polyculture
In an earlier post I introduced the ‘Butterfly Paradise‘ polyculture, a perennial infrastructure polyculture with the primary function to attract…
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Permaculture Projects
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge
As part of our ESC project we are maintaining and developing community spaces. The centre of our town, Shipka, was fairly…
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Permaculture Projects
Waterways, Seed heads & Damsons
I imagine it’s sounding like a broken record but the heatwave continues in earnest here. Most of our time is…
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Permaculture Projects
European Solidarity Corps Project – Week 1 2021
This week we welcome Ruhsar, Tara, Ruxandra, Marco and Marcus, to Shipka for the start of our first European Solidarity…
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Soil
The Biomass Belt Revisited
Back in May of 2016, I published an article on an experimental polyculture for meeting the fertility demands of the…
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Permaculture Projects
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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Irrigation
Ollas: Unglazed Clay Pots for Garden Irrigation
I first encountered the concept of using unglazed clay vessels for sub-surface irrigation in Bill Mollison’s “The Global Gardener” film…
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