sustainability – 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 Small Scale Grain Growing 2012 and beyond http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-2012-and-beyond/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-2012-and-beyond/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:47:45 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=2806 After a year of growing grains, it became clear that I needed to create a more formal research strategy for my Small Scale Grain growing Experiments. I have carried out quite a bit of research, and have devised a plan that should enable me to do this more effectively. Rather than repeat all of the […]

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Looking Back, and Forward. http://sustainablesmallholding.org/looking-back-and-forward/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/looking-back-and-forward/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:19:12 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1747 A short while ago, I posted about the books that I’ve read this year, Reading List, and I’ve written two posts about the direction that I’m taking to become more self reliant, here at the Sustainable Smallholding. Creating a Permanent Agriculture, and 2012 Plans, Experiments, and Direction, both look at where I’m heading.What I wanted […]

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Creating a Permanent Agriculture http://sustainablesmallholding.org/creating-a-permanent-agriculture/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/creating-a-permanent-agriculture/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:52:12 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1669 My interest in growing grains has just increased, with the arrival of more seeds, this time from America. The packet contained a corn variety, a variety of millet, and most exciting of all, a perennial rye. Luckily I have all winter to consider how to link this in to my Polyculture Experiment, and where. Initially, […]

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Bees and Bee Forage Everywhere http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-and-bee-forage-everywhere/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-and-bee-forage-everywhere/#respond Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:06:32 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1354 One of the things keeping me busy over the last three weeks has been my bees. Despite my efforts to keep ahead of them, it looks like the warm dry start to the season has got them thinking about swarming early. The first inkling that this might be an early year for swarming has been […]

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LAND Project Demonstration Site http://sustainablesmallholding.org/land-project-demonstration-site/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/land-project-demonstration-site/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:55:03 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1304 It’s official. I can announce that we are now an official demonstration site for the Permaculture Association (UK), LAND Project. You can read about the LAND Demonstration Project on the Pe.rmaculture Association website. Our page is titled the Wolds Woodland Farming Project, which you can read by following the link text at the beginning of […]

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