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Hi All We've just launched a brand new Regenerative Landscape Design Online Interactive Course. How to Design, Build and Manage Polycultures for Landscapes, Gardens, and Farms. We're super excited about running the course and to provide you with the confidence, inspiration and opportunity to start b...

Would you like to learn how to design and build a forest garden? ​ Our Design and Build courses are exactly that. We start with the design and end with the build. In this particular course we will be designing and building a forest garden from scratch. (see below for the design site specifications) ...

We're super excited to announce The Polyculture Project, a research project dedicated to developing and promoting practices that provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity. With your help we hope to expand and excel our experiments with various regenerative/permaculture practice...

Hazel is a multi purpose champion of a plant that is super easy to grow, produces delicious nuts, pliable wood that can be crafted into a variety of products, provides early fodder for bees and an encouraging spectacle when flowering during the mid winter. What more can I say.... a plant so good peo...

We've a great course lined up for late summer. You'll be working in small teams of 4 - 6 people to survey and design real plots of land and in larger groups to carry out practicals such as earthworks and wildlife pond building. With a good balance of field work, hands-on practicals and theory and ex...

Hi All We have an excellent course lined up this summer!! and there are just 8 days to go for the early booking discount so if you're interested it's time to register. click below for details http://www.balkep.org/regenerative-landscape-design-course-june-15th---22nd.html www.balkep.org www.balkanec...

Hi All We're extending our Polyculture Project to include experimental perennial polycultures. Our aim is to develop models that are low cost to establish and maintain, can produce healthy affordable nutritious food and will enhance biodiversity. To view this post with photos, illustrations and tabl...

Encouraged by high yields and high levels of biodiversity that we have been recording in our home gardens we have extended our research to look at how we can provide nutritious affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity in polyculture market gardens. We are delighted to be offering a unique oppor...

We've completed the second year of our Market Garden Polyculture Study with some interesting results. This year we added a new polyculture to the trials and included a comparison between growing vegetables in a polyculture and growing them in more traditional blocks. Below you will find an overview ...

Hi All, Here are the results from our polyculture/guild trials 2016 For the previous three years we have been testing the practice of growing vegetables and herbs in polycultures (or what is known as guilds within permaculture circles). We have been using our home garden for these tests and recordin...

Dig the Fig - The essential guide to all you need to know about figs - Ficus carica Originally from Asia Minor, the fig is probably the oldest cultivated fruit in the world. There is evidence to suggest that some 10,000 years ago some of us were planting figs directly outside our caves presumably to...

Hi Russel I don't think so but it does save having to rotate crops and perhaps provides more habitat for other organisms. I'm really happy with this polyculture for home garden scale but it seems the extra time needed to maintain the polyculture at market garden scale it may not be worth it. The res...

Hi All and happy Autumn :) We'll be supplying some great fruit and nut cultivars from the nursery this season. We have a small selection of Fig, Cornelian Cherry, Hazelnut and Walnut cultivars that are all well suited for natural orchards, farms and gardens. Below you can see our new cultivar web pa...

Hi Green Aura It sounds like planting a windbreak would be good place to start - the following plants are wind tolerant and will grow in the conditions you have described Japanese Quince - Chaenomeles speciosa Russian Olive - Elaeagnus angustifolia Autumn Olive - Elaeagnus umbellata Siberian Pea Tre...

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We're offering a range of seed picked fresh this autumn from the healthiest plants in our forest gardens.

Check out our website below for more info

http://www.balkep.org/permacultureseed.html

Happy Autumn