Peak Oil – 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 Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden. Book Review http://sustainablesmallholding.org/buffalo-bird-womans-garden-book-review/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/buffalo-bird-womans-garden-book-review/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:44:13 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1575 A while ago I reviewed The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe. It’s probably one of the most important books that I’ve read so far. In the book, Carol frequently refers to another book, Buffalo Bird Woman’s garden, particularly when discussing food preservation. Buffalo Bird Woman’s garden is an account of Hidatsa American Indian gardening techniques, […]

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Positive Images – Part Three http://sustainablesmallholding.org/positive-images-part-three/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/positive-images-part-three/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:02:23 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=539 In the final part of this series of posts, I am going to include a clip of the work being done by a charity, and then explore why this type of work is being done in poorer parts of the world, but ignored in the developed world. The clip is from an organisation called trees […]

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The Sustainable Smallholding End of Year Roundup http://sustainablesmallholding.org/the-sustainable-smallholding-end-of-year-roundup/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/the-sustainable-smallholding-end-of-year-roundup/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:18:01 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=501 2009 was another busy year at the Sustainable Smallholding, with changes to the management of my bees, an increase in the number of chickens, and hives, the addition of ducks, the creation of swales, and lots of experimental growing. This included growing tobacco, manuka, eucalyptus, acacia, small scale wheat growing etc. So I thought that […]

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Positive Images – Part One http://sustainablesmallholding.org/positive-images-part-one/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/positive-images-part-one/#respond Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:18:36 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=481 It would be easy to become disillusioned about our future, when there is so much bad news about, so I wanted to put together some links to positive video from around the world, and then sort of link them together. Most of them show what happens when you combine Permaculture, or Agroforestry, with people who […]

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Sustainable Transport http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-transport/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-transport/#respond Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:59:56 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=391 Well, I’ve finally got rid of my van. I figured that whilst there were many good reasons to keep it, the reasons for letting it go were more compelling. Most of my traveling is fairly local, and we have a decent bus service, roughly one an hour. So many of my journeys could be done […]

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