Forest garden – 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=4.7.3 44677425 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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Observe and Interact Part One http://sustainablesmallholding.org/observe-and-interact/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/observe-and-interact/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:34:41 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3744 Observe and Interact is one of the Permaculture Principles promoted by David Holmgrem. One interpretation of this principle is that we observe what we see around us, and then use that information to help us to create or modify systems in our designs. However this only touches the surface of what Observe and Interact can […]

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Willow Trial Update http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:44:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3730 Earliest Flowering Willow Trial Last year I published a post about My Earliest Flowering Willow, and was surprised to see that the willow that flowered earliest for my was a hybrid called ‘Lapin’. I was up in the Forest Garden again today, ‘weeping’ at the damage done to my willows by rabbits, and noticed that […]

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Chicken Scavenging System or Chicken Forage? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-2/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chicken-scavenging-system-2/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:42:51 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3637 Not everybody likes the term ‘Chicken Scavenging System’. World renowned Permaculture author, Patrick Whitefield would prefer me to use something that sounds less desperate. Most permaculturalists use the term Chicken Forage, so what’s the difference, and what are the implications of using one system or another? I don’t have a dictionary definition of either term, […]

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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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