The Sustainable Smallholding » Uncategorized http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Growing Rice in the UK? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-rice-in-the-uk/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/growing-rice-in-the-uk/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:41:42 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4080 In 2014 I’m goint to try growing rice in the UK, and the following post describes why, and how I’m going to do it. I’m sure that it has been tried by somebody, somewhere, but I have no idea if anybody has made it work yet. It’s not something that I’ve ever come across before, […]

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Rye. Observations and Figures http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rye-observations-and-figures/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rye-observations-and-figures/#comments Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:15:15 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4041 I’ve been selecting rye for seed, and decided to make the activity more productive by doing some simple observations, and measuring yields. Saving my Rye Seed I recently read an old article that suggested that grain taken from the middle of the ear produced better and higher yielding plants. This article on how to rejuvenate […]

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Small Scale Grain Growing Update 2012/2013 Season http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-20122013-season/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-20122013-season/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:43:24 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4019 My small scale grain growing experiment has reached the end of year two, having grown and harvested, rye, spelt, and wheat. I’m almost ready to start sowing the grains for year three, and thought that I would record my results and observations here. Harvesting This is the rye and spelt before harvesting. The rye was […]

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DIY Soybean Inoculant http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:47:33 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3986 My DIY Soybean Inoculant experiment was designed to create my own inoculant, to save having to order fresh commercial soybean inoculant each year. I described my reasons for conducting the experiment in my last post, Soybean Inoculant Experiment First Results. DIY Soybean Inoculant Method To create the inoculant I took an existing method for producing […]

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Balancing Soil Minerals. http://sustainablesmallholding.org/balancing-soil-minerals/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/balancing-soil-minerals/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:13:31 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3895 Balancing Soil Minerals here at the Sustainable Smallholding has been occupying my thinking for a few weeks now. It started a while back after reading ‘Advancing Biological Farming’ by Gary Zimmer, but my thinking took a huge leap forward after reading ‘The Intelligent Gardener’ by Steve Solomon, and settled after reading ‘The Ideal Soil’ by […]

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