Goodbye to an old friend
I am trying not to be too upset, but the beautiful forest garden we designed and planted at Busoga high school is going to be ...
Category: Permaculture techniques
Posts regarding permaculture design tools and techniques
Biochar on a bonfire
Treflach farm laid some of their hedges last winter. This created piles of brash, narrow diameter sticks and twigs that are hard to use usefully ...
Making fuel from plastic waste
Reclaiming energy from plastic is a huge untapped potential and can help eliminate the plastic waste slowly choking the envirnoment.
PDC Treflach Farm
It is a an on-line PDC with a 4-day camp in the middle, and an option to return to the farm for the final weekend. ...
Farm scale permaculture, the next step
Above: Professor Martin Wolfe at Wakelyns Farm, Suffolk a few years ago. He is explaining how resilience, disease resistance and long term soil fertility is ...
Compost champions!
I take my hat off for the Save School project team, led by Rose Nibagwire, making what to me looks like the biggest compost heap ...
Angie Polkey on seeds
There is an amazing bio-regional and ethical seed company near us, here in Wales. They sell only open pollinated seeds – they encourage seed saving, ...
Thoughts on gully erosion
Water, to be useful and to become available to plants needs to soak into the ground. Problems always can occur when there is surface flow, ...