hardy bamboo – 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 Hardy Bamboo for Special Situations http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-for-special-situations/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-for-special-situations/#respond Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:56:27 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3456 Hardy Bamboo can be used for many purposes, and in many different situations. A friend asked me which hardy bamboo species would be suitable for wet conditions, and be good to eat. I thought that I would write a very quick post to answer his question, and to share that information with anybody else searching […]

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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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Hardy Bamboo and Chickens: Part One http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-and-chickens/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/hardy-bamboo-and-chickens/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:08:49 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3192 Hardy Bamboo and Chickens are an ideal combination. Whilst bamboo doesn’t provide food for chickens, it does provide an ideal environment for them, and for the insects that they love to feed on. Perhaps I should rephrase that. Bamboo isn’t known as a chicken food, but nobody told my chickens. They seem happy to browse […]

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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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