Polyculture – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 44677425 Productive Polyculture Experiment http://sustainablesmallholding.org/productive-polyculture-design/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/productive-polyculture-design/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:57:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4225 Sometimes it’s funny how things turn out. I have not been a fan of the ‘garden polyculture’ strand within permaculture. I think that it’s ok on a small scale, or where there is a lot of free labour available for harvesting, but it has never struck me as a way to grow significant quantities of […]

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Rye. Observations and Figures http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rye-observations-and-figures/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rye-observations-and-figures/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:15:15 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4041 I’ve been selecting rye for seed, and decided to make the activity more productive by doing some simple observations, and measuring yields. Saving my Rye Seed I recently read an old article that suggested that grain taken from the middle of the ear produced better and higher yielding plants. This article on how to rejuvenate […]

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Small Scale Grain Growing Update 2012/2013 Season http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-20122013-season/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-20122013-season/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:43:24 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4019 My small scale grain growing experiment has reached the end of year two, having grown and harvested, rye, spelt, and wheat. I’m almost ready to start sowing the grains for year three, and thought that I would record my results and observations here. Harvesting This is the rye and spelt before harvesting. The rye was […]

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Polyculture Update. February 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:42:50 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3745 I wanted to write a short post to keep up to date with my vegetable/grain polyculture experiments. The overall aims and objectives are described in my vegetable/grain polyculture design, but the page is really a number of linked projects. This post updates a couple of those polyculture projects. Grain, Clover, and Bean Polyculture The main […]

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Small Scale Grain Growing Update Jan 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-jan-2013/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-jan-2013/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:49:07 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3259 Small Scale Grain Growing is an integral part of my vegetable and grain polyculture experiment, which featured in an article in Permaculture Magazine. I have described what I’m trying to achieve in earlier posts, and on my Sustainable Grains, and Vegetable/Grains pages, but I wanted to show some pictures of my current research. That’s especially […]

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