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- Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Regenerative Landscape Design - Online Interactive Course
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Regenerative Landscape Design - Online Interactive Course
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...
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:04 pm
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Forest Garden Design and Build Course
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- Views: 56153
Forest Garden Design and Build Course
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) ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 3:20 pm
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: The Polyculture Project
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- Views: 53882
The Polyculture Project
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...
- Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:38 am
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: The Amazing Hazel - The Essential Guide to Everything you need to know about Hazels
- Replies: 2
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The Amazing Hazel - The Essential Guide to Everything you need to know about Hazels
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...
- Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:44 pm
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: Regenerative Landscape Design Course
- Replies: 0
- Views: 55495
Regenerative Landscape Design Course
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...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:44 pm
- Forum: Swap Shop, Trading Area and Seed Swap Area
- Topic: Regenerative Landscape Design Course
- Replies: 0
- Views: 54347
Regenerative Landscape Design Course
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...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Pollination support for gardens, orchards and farms
- Replies: 0
- Views: 56541
Pollination support for gardens, orchards and farms
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...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: What's Going On?
- Topic: A unique learning opportunity studying the productivity of a polyculture market garden
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- Views: 56088
A unique learning opportunity studying the productivity of a polyculture market garden
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...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 6:40 am
- Forum: Allotments, Veg Patches and Container Gardening
- Topic: Polyculture Trials - Polyculture vs Block Planting
- Replies: 0
- Views: 46525
Polyculture Trials - Polyculture vs Block Planting
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 ...
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:34 am
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Polyculture/Guild Trials - Home Garden Records
- Replies: 0
- Views: 48582
Polyculture/Guild Trials - Home Garden Records
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...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:34 pm
- Forum: Fruit and Nuts
- Topic: Dig the Fig - The essential guide to all you need to know about figs - Ficus carica
- Replies: 17
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Dig the Fig - The essential guide to all you need to know about figs - Ficus carica
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...
- Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:45 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Growing Vegetables in Polycultures
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9100
Re: Growing Vegetables in Polycultures
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...
- Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:54 pm
- Forum: Swap Shop, Trading Area and Seed Swap Area
- Topic: Fruit and nut cultivars for natural orchards, farms and gardens
- Replies: 0
- Views: 60163
Fruit and nut cultivars for natural orchards, farms and gardens
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...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:47 pm
- Forum: Swap Shop, Trading Area and Seed Swap Area
- Topic: Seeds for Permaculture and Forest Gardens
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15510
Re: Seeds for Permaculture and Forest Gardens
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...
- Sun Sep 11, 2016 7:15 am
- Forum: Swap Shop, Trading Area and Seed Swap Area
- Topic: Seeds for Permaculture and Forest Gardens
- Replies: 2
- Views: 15510
Seeds for Permaculture and Forest Gardens
Hi All
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
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