bon fils – 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 Compost, Green Manure, and Intercropping http://sustainablesmallholding.org/compost-green-manure-and-intercropping/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/compost-green-manure-and-intercropping/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:20:40 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1782 It’s been a little while since my last post, and for most of that time I have been contemplating the detail of my vegetable/grain polyculture, how the crops will be rotated, and how I will incorporate compost, green manures, and intercrops into the system. I waited, in the hope that I could post the finished […]

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Polyculture Pictures. late October 2011 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-pictures-late-october-2011/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-pictures-late-october-2011/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:54:54 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1696 These Polyculture Pictures have been waiting for a week to publish, but I haven’t had time. The picture above shows the chicory seedlings that were sown recently. The warm soil has allowed them to germinate, fairly easily. They are in a mixed Polyculture of Beans and Echinacea, with the beans as the primary crop. The […]

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Creating a Permanent Agriculture http://sustainablesmallholding.org/creating-a-permanent-agriculture/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/creating-a-permanent-agriculture/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:52:12 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1669 My interest in growing grains has just increased, with the arrival of more seeds, this time from America. The packet contained a corn variety, a variety of millet, and most exciting of all, a perennial rye. Luckily I have all winter to consider how to link this in to my Polyculture Experiment, and where. Initially, […]

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Polyculture Update. Mid October 2011 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-mid-october-2011/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-mid-october-2011/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:47:57 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1654 Well the original polyculture is progressing nicely, although the initial seeding of chicory was a bit dense, and will need thinning out. In my mid September Update, I tried to explain how the beans were interplanted with the grains, but here are a few pictures, which I hope will clarify my system for you. The […]

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Polyculture Update. Late September 2010 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-late-september-2010/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/polyculture-update-late-september-2010/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:13:28 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1630 Again, actual progress with my experimental polyculture has been slow, whilst my thinking has continued to evolve. In the vegetable beds, Broad beans have now been planted. These are a great example of the Permaculture principle ‘every element should perform more than one function’. They are a food crop, provide bee forage, fix nitrogen, yield […]

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