{"id":38045,"date":"2018-09-20T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38045"},"modified":"2018-09-20T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:03:49","slug":"5-ha-polyculture-farm-design-suhi-dol-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38045","title":{"rendered":"5 HA Polyculture Farm Design&#8211;Suhi Dol Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Suhi-Dol-Polyculture-Orchard-640x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2018\/09\/20\/5-ha-polyculture-farm-design-suhi-dol-revisited\/\">5 HA POLYCULTURE FARM DESIGN \u2013 SUHI DOL REVISITED<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Paul Alfrey from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/balkanecologyproject\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balkan Ecology Project<\/a>\u00a0shares 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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week Dylan and I set off on a road trip to discover the flora and fauna of the North East of Bulgaria. Our first stop was to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/catherine.zanev?ref=br_rs\">Catherine Zanev <\/a>\u2018s farm in Todorovo, North Bulgaria. As those of you familiar with our project may recall, this was a farm I designed in 2013. I had not visited the place for some time and was very excited to see how the plans had emerged into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine\u2019s goals for the plot were to create a polyculture farm with focus on producing fruit for juicing, to include vegetable production for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) scheme and to experiment with dye plants. The design was complete by 2015 and implementation began that year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44007\" src=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8125.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8125.jpg 640w, https:\/\/21z6r9yf8x02eaff51wxrs58-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_8125-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The 5 ha polyculture plot Suhi Dol on the right, locally practiced intensive monoculture farming on the left<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The design concept for Suhi Dol was to create an agroforestry system of \u201cBelts\u201d that are comprised of mixed species fruit trees, soft fruits and nitrogen fixing shrubs planted in \u201cRows\u201d under-storied with support plants, herbs and perennial vegetables. Between the rows are the \u201cAlleys\u201d. The Alleys have potential to be used for growing hay, cereals, vegetables, herbs or rearing pasture raised poultry such as chickens or turkeys. Integrated throughout the belts and around the perimeter are various beneficial habitats to enhance biodiversity. The designed system is an elaboration of Alley Cropping and is based on tried and tested models of our small scale forest garden systems scaled up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 HA POLYCULTURE FARM DESIGN \u2013 SUHI DOL REVISITED Paul Alfrey from Balkan Ecology Project\u00a0shares 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.\u00a0 Last week Dylan and I set off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21768,9185,21731,12800,3033,13960,19660,8748,8713,4554,14252],"class_list":["post-38045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-commercial-farm-projects","tag-design","tag-food-plants-perennial","tag-general","tag-land","tag-paul-alfrey","tag-permaculture-institute","tag-permaculture-news","tag-plants","tag-trees","tag-why-permaculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38046,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions\/38046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}