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Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants
Image by author Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants A Summer Update from Shipka This summer has been incredibly hot and dry, and even some of the older and more established trees have looked under strain. With increasing periods of hot and dry weather and pressure on both the mains water supply and our perennial […]
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge
A Butterfly Polyculture and Planting a Productive Hedge Week 19 – ESC Project – The Polyculture Project As part of our ESC project we are maintaining and developing community spaces. The centre of our town, Shipka, was fairly recently developed to include a main plaza with a stage where numerous events take place throughout the year, […]
Five of Our Favourite Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects
Five of Our Favourite Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects All organisms are beneficial, and at the very least all organisms past, present and future decompose to nourish something else, but when we speak of beneficial organisms we are speaking of those organisms that provide clear and present benefits, specifically to our polyculture activity. Beneficial organisms, […]
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade
Forest Garden Plants – Ground Cover Plants for Deep Shade Ground cover plants play an important role in the forest garden, protecting the soil, providing refuge for wildlife at ground layer, preventing unwanted plants from establishing and can provide some food such as berries or leaves. Ground covers are easy to establish and can be […]
Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture
Polyculture Trial – Apple Polyculture vs Monoculture How Do they Compare in Terms of Costs, Soil Health, Biodiversity, Production and Time? I’m so looking forward to the spring to meet our Polyculture Study crew and get back into the gardens. This season we’ll be shifting our focus to perennial polyculture experiments and forest garden yields. […]
The Polyculture Market Garden Study–Results From Year 4–2018
THE POLYCULTURE MARKET GARDEN STUDY – RESULTS FROM YEAR 4 – 2018 HERE ARE THE RESULTS FROM THE FOURTH YEAR OF OUR MARKET GARDEN POLYCULTURE STUDY. THIS STUDY LOOKS AT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GROWING ANNUAL VEGETABLES AND HERBS IN POLYCULTURES VS GROWING THEM IN TRADITIONAL BLOCKS. In this post you will find an overview of […]
5 HA Polyculture Farm Design–Suhi Dol Revisited
5 HA POLYCULTURE FARM DESIGN – SUHI DOL REVISITED Paul Alfrey from Balkan Ecology Project shares with us his observations and thoughts in regards to a visit he made to a farm he designed and how it slowly developed into a polyculture of fruit trees, aquaculture and vegetable gardens. Last week Dylan and I set off […]
Perennial Polycultures-The Biomass Belt: Fertility Without Manure
PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES – THE BIOMASS BELT: FERTILITY WITHOUT MANURE We’re extending the Polyculture Project to include experimental perennial polycultures on various plots of our newly acquired land. Our aim is to develop models that are low cost to establish and maintain, can produce healthy affordable nutritious food and will enhance biodiversity. We’ve been looking into fencing our […]
