How a Campus Lawn Becomes a No-Dig Permaculture Garden (Video) Image credit: UMassPermaculture Warren's post on how to build a no-dig garden is somewhat of a classic here on TreeHugger. And while the slugs weren't too appetizing, the rest of his slideshow on the produce from that home garden is great inspiration for anyone wanting to grow their own.
Now a team of students at UMass Amherst are building a no-dig garden on a much grander scale—transforming a 1/4 acre grass lawn into an abundant permaculture forest garden to feed their campus cafeteria. No-Dig Garden Laid on Top of LawnInspired by a need to rethink our industrial agricultural system, and aware that there were large amounts of potentially productive land on campus being given over to lawns, the UMass Amherst Permaculture Committee is in the process of transforming a lawn just outside their cafeteria. An Ongoing, Replicable Model? More on PermacultureAwesome Tour of a Permaculture AllotmentHow to Build a No-Dig GardenFood, Water, Permaculture: Rethinking Disaster Relief for Haiti.
Plantfacts. Cherries. Overview Two main types of cherries are produced in the United States: sweet cherries and tart or “sour” cherries. Washington, California and Oregon are the primary sweet cherry producing states, accounting for 97 percent of the quantity produced nationwide in 2012 (NASS 2013). In recent years, about 75 percent of the sweet cherries produced have been destined for the fresh market, with the remaining 25 percent used for processing.
The primary tart cherry producing state is generally Michigan, which typically accounts for nearly 90 percent of tart cherry production. In 2012, however, the state's cherry crop dropped to 11.6 million pounds, due to unfavorable weather. With regard to tart cherries, 99 percent of production is used for processing, with the majority processed as a frozen product (NASS 2013). Marketing California Cherries, California Cherry Advisory Board - This site provides information on Bing, Rainer, Lambert and Van cherries to consumers and industry sources. Production. Garden design resources: Planting Calendar & Polyculture Web « The Wild Green Yonder. January 31, 2010 As the skies clear over the Front Range and the air begins to warm (at least for now) my thoughts are turning increasingly to designing my garden for this year.
My housemates and I have already created sheet-mulched sunken beds to start the soil-building process, and now we’re starting to figure out what we want to grow and where to plant it. And while we’re eager to continue experimenting with unusual, locally-adapted species like currant, sunchoke, and quinoa, a good portion of the garden will be dedicated to traditional annual garden vegetables. Fortunately, there’s a ton of information out there about how to get the best yield with a minimum of maintenance and resource use.
Unfortunately, that info isn’t always organized in the best way for visual learners like myself – so I’ve decided to create a couple tools to simplify the garden planning process. The first is a Denver-specific planting calendar for some of the most common garden vegetables. Like this: Eric Toensmeier's Perennial Solutions (Permaculture) Permageeks/Polyculture-Design-Tool. Planting Companion Vegetables and Herbs, and Fruit Tree Companion Planting. Seasoned organic growers know the value of planting companion vegetables and herbs, and fruit tree companion planting for reducing pest and disease problems and boosting yields. Right>> An ecological organic garden where the vegetables sow themselves!
Watch the video. We have distilled their know-how to provide a companion plant guide and companion planting charts to help you reap the benefits in your garden or orchard. In our companion planting charts I have represented plant relationships in an easy to use two dimensional format… much like the real layout in a garden, rather than the usual long list of friends and antagonists. This approach made it easier for me to make practical use companion planting wisdom and I hope you enjoy it too. Don’t Sweat It! The most important thing to glean from this information is a general “feel” for the benefits to be gained from planting companion vegetables and herbs, and fruit tree companion planting. . • More Effectively Use Space: • Nitrogen Fixing: Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association > Agricultural Services. Irrigation Calculator - Department of Agriculture and Food, WA.
Performance of Component Species in Three Apple-Berry Polyculture Systems.
Start a Polyculture Today, Toss Salad Tonight. Posted on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 8:00 am by admin Have you ever tried a salad with dill, cabbage, and/or fava beans? This spring, try starting this polyculture blend. It will help you create your own crisp, delicious, unique salads for months to come. It comes from Ianto Evans (co-author of The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage), by way of Toby Hemenway’s Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. Ianto Evans’s Polyculture Prepare a garden bed, allowing about twenty square feet of bed for each person who will be fed from the polyculture. Two weeks before the last frost: Indoors, start about five cabbage plants per twenty square feet of bed. When it comes to gardening, let nature be your guide — Timber Press Talks. A combination of fruit trees, vegetables, herbs, and flowers attracts beneficial insects and avoids disease in an urban landscape.
Polyculture, interplanting, companion planting, plant guilds. With so many gardening labels it’s difficult to know what they all mean. David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth have been giving this some thought while writing What’s Wrong With My Fruit Tree? , the third book in their What’s Wrong series. Deardorff and Wadsworth prefer the term polyculture but as they point out in this post, all these labels mean basically the same thing: when it comes to gardening, let nature be your guide. In a polyculture garden unrelated plants grow next to each other. Plants which have been grown together for thousands of years include corn, beans, and squash, a polyculture known as “The Three Sisters”. The simplest way to comprehend the successful polyculture garden is to think of it as a constructed plant community that emulates a natural one.
Development of a Sustainable Polyculture Production and Marketing System for Exotic Tropical Fruits. Development of a Sustainable Polyculture Production and Marketing System for Exotic Tropical Fruits The 12 Trees Project A new project funded by the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE) USDA-CSREES competitive grants program, asked Hawaii Island chefs, fruit buyers and growers to chose 12 types of fruit.
Pictured below are those chosen. Fruit trees will now be planted and brought into production at a demonstration orchard at the Kona Pacific Farmers Cooperative on Napoopoo Road. 12 Trees Book online 56 page color book on the project Weed Mat Test with Typar 1-08 Photos of test area and putting down new mat to combat nut sedge grass New Photos from 11-23-07 Project photos with new field signs.Satellite image Dr. Sf edible landscapedesign. HUFFDetailed-Design5. Permaculture for Farmers v3: Crops, Patterns, Polycultures.