food forest – 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 Chop and Drop in the Coppice http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chop-and-drop-coppice/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chop-and-drop-coppice/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:02:02 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4099 I first came across the term ‘Chop and Drop’ in Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest DVD. I reviewed the DVD here. Chop and Drop describes the actions of cutting branch wood from fast growing trees ‘nurse’ trees, and then using that wood to feed soil fungi, in order to help the production trees, planted […]

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Willow Trial Update http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:44:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3730 Earliest Flowering Willow Trial Last year I published a post about My Earliest Flowering Willow, and was surprised to see that the willow that flowered earliest for my was a hybrid called ‘Lapin’. I was up in the Forest Garden again today, ‘weeping’ at the damage done to my willows by rabbits, and noticed that […]

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Chicken Scavenging System or Chicken Forage? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-2/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-2/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:42:51 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3637 Not everybody likes the term ‘Chicken Scavenging System’. World renowned Permaculture author, Patrick Whitefield would prefer me to use something that sounds less desperate. Most permaculturalists use the term Chicken Forage, so what’s the difference, and what are the implications of using one system or another? I don’t have a dictionary definition of either term, […]

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Bamboo Books for Permaculture http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bamboo-books-for-permaculture/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bamboo-books-for-permaculture/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:31:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3427 Some of my recent posts have had information about Hardy Bamboo in them. Much of the information for those posts have come from two Bamboo books. I thought that I’d post about them too, and do a kind of mini book review, comparing the relative benefits of each.   ‘Hardy Bamboo’ by Paul Whittaker The […]

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Hardy Bamboo and Chickens part 2 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-and-chickens-part-2/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-and-chickens-part-2/#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:40:52 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3348 In my previous post about Hardy Bamboo, I looked at some of the plants that might be used in conjunction with chickens. Most will provide shelter, and an ideal environment for a Chicken Scavenging System. However that’s not all of the functions that bamboo can fulfill, and in this post I want to explore some […]

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