Chickens – 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 Vegetable Growing -Update http://sustainablesmallholding.org/vegetable-growing-update/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/vegetable-growing-update/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:08 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4307 I am having to make changes to my vegetable growing areas in order to reduce the time that it takes to manage. I currently have two areas in which I grow vegetables and grains, covering over a quarter of an acre. This has been difficult to maintain whilst at college, and will be much more […]

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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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A DIY BroadFork http://sustainablesmallholding.org/a-diy-broadfork/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/a-diy-broadfork/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:44:07 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3839 I have wanted a Broadfork since I read Eliot Coleman’s book ‘The New Organic Grower‘. References to the use of a broadfork in ‘How to Grow More Vegetables‘, by John Jeavons, and other books, only reinforced that desire. As usual I did a bit of research into broadforks beforehand. I discovered that the broadfork used […]

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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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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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