A UNIQUE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY FOCUSED ON HOW WE CAN PROVIDE NUTRITIOUS AFFORDABLE FOOD WHILE ENHANCING BIODIVERSITY.
We are on a mission to discover methods of landscape management that can provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity. We are delighted to be offering a unique opportunity to take part in our study, would you like to join us ?
WHAT ARE WE DOING ?
We are undertaking a multi year study of market gardening growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nut polycultures. The study aims to compare our polyculture plots with conventional organic plots, record levels of biodiversity in the gardens and look at set up and running costs (in terms of finances and time) and outputs in terms of produce and income.
The approach we take to market gardening goes way beyond “organic”. We design biological systems that rely on the native ecology to function as opposed to external manufactured inputs, and as a result our gardens service not only our needs but the needs of other organisms too.
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WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING ?
You’ll be working closely as a team producing food from the market garden for yourself, local markets, and a food co-operative and will be recording all aspects of the process including how long it takes to develop, maintain and manage the associated costs, the fertility requirements, the returns in produce weight and income derived from the sale of the produce.
We will also be working on a new experimental garden growing perennial polycultures providing fruits, nuts, vegetables, biomass, timber and wildlife habitat. You can find out more about our perennial polyculture trail gardens here .
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