coppice – 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=4.5.3 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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Chicken Scavenging System: Update Jan 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-update-jan-2012/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-update-jan-2012/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:42:08 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=2978   My Chicken Scavenging System is designed to feed my Chickens using insects living on the floor of a type of Forest Garden, to reduce the amount of wheat and other grains that I need to feed to them. I described thisĀ  Permaculture system of my own design, in my Chicken Scavenging System Design that […]

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Wood Ash and Soil Fertility http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wood-ash-and-soil-fertility/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/wood-ash-and-soil-fertility/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:57:29 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=2855 I have written a series of posts that revolve around soil fertility, and so regular readers of the blog might think that another blog post is overkill. I hope not. Last nights’ post, Crop Rotations, Soil Fertility, and Digging (part 2), looked at the amount of compost needed to grow the food to feed a […]

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Permaculture Diploma Portfolio almost Complete http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-diploma-portfolio-almost-complete/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-diploma-portfolio-almost-complete/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:27:27 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=2634 If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m currently putting together my portfolio for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design. You will also notice that I have been posting less. That’s not because I haven’t got stuff to write about, but more a result of the volume of work that […]

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Processing Firewood, and thoughts. http://sustainablesmallholding.org/processing-firewood-and-thoughts/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/processing-firewood-and-thoughts/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:12:04 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1762 Earlier this week I spent a few hours processing firewood with hand tools. Unlike when using a chainsaw, the hand tools allow time for thinking, and this post is partly about the firewood, and partly about the thoughts that went with the activity. The picture above shows the tree that I worked on. It is […]

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