The Sustainable Smallholding » small scale grain growing 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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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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Polyculture Update. February 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-february-2013/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:42:50 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3745 I wanted to write a short post to keep up to date with my vegetable/grain polyculture experiments. The overall aims and objectives are described in my vegetable/grain polyculture design, but the page is really a number of linked projects. This post updates a couple of those polyculture projects. Grain, Clover, and Bean Polyculture The main […]

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Permaculture: The Prequels http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-the-prequels/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/permaculture-the-prequels/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:48:26 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3587 The word Permaculture was originally formed from the words Permanent Agriculture. What may surprise you is that the words Permanent Agriculture appear in the titles of at least three books, and predate ‘Permaculture’ by about sixty years. I am currently reading one of those books for the second time, and thought that it would be […]

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Small Scale Grain Growing Update Jan 2013 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-jan-2013/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/small-scale-grain-growing-update-jan-2013/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:49:07 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3259 Small Scale Grain Growing is an integral part of my vegetable and grain polyculture experiment, which featured in an article in Permaculture Magazine. I have described what I’m trying to achieve in earlier posts, and on my Sustainable Grains, and Vegetable/Grains pages, but I wanted to show some pictures of my current research. That’s especially […]

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