Transition Horncastle – 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=4.7.3 44677425 Catching Up with Work http://sustainablesmallholding.org/catching-up-with-work/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/catching-up-with-work/#respond Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:06:09 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=851 Forgive me for it has been nearly two weeks since my last post, and I find myself with very little exciting Smallholding stuff to update you on, but quite a bit of the more mundane work. For much of the past week I have been distracted from the real work that needs to be done, […]

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The Sustainable Smallholding End of Year Roundup http://sustainablesmallholding.org/the-sustainable-smallholding-end-of-year-roundup/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/the-sustainable-smallholding-end-of-year-roundup/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:18:01 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=501 2009 was another busy year at the Sustainable Smallholding, with changes to the management of my bees, an increase in the number of chickens, and hives, the addition of ducks, the creation of swales, and lots of experimental growing. This included growing tobacco, manuka, eucalyptus, acacia, small scale wheat growing etc. So I thought that […]

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And Now we Wait for Leadership http://sustainablesmallholding.org/and-now-we-wait-for-leadership/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/and-now-we-wait-for-leadership/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:35:12 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=446 On Saturday I attended The Wave, in London, which was a demonstration designed to remind politicians that we want them to come away from the Copenhagen Summit with a strong agreement to tackle Climate change. I’m really glad that I went, as I would have felt pretty hypocritical if I hadn’t made the effort. Sadly, […]

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Permaculture Courses http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-courses/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-courses/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:35:13 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=397 Well the last few weeks have been focussed on preparing for running an Introduction to Permaculture Course, which along with another Lincolnshire based Permacuture designer, I ran at the weekend. The Introduction to Permaculture Course followed a taster session, which Nick Vowles and I ran in August. That session was for the Lincolnshire Organic Gardeners’ […]

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Sustainable Transport http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-transport/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-transport/#respond Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:59:56 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=391 Well, I’ve finally got rid of my van. I figured that whilst there were many good reasons to keep it, the reasons for letting it go were more compelling. Most of my traveling is fairly local, and we have a decent bus service, roughly one an hour. So many of my journeys could be done […]

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