Yurt LivingYurt Living. Ohhh the good intentions of keeping up with my blog…I am coming to the realisation that my environment controls me, not the other way around, I tend to do whatever the farm tells me to do…and it can be hard to sit and write about it all!
Since I last wrote, there have been huge improvements on the quinta and we have been steaming ahead with our plans. We have had lots of lovely visitors in the last couple of months, including two good Folkestone friends, Karen and La, who helped us make an enormous hugelbed. A hugelbed is a type of raised area for cultivating vegetables, grains, fruit etc and has been written about and recommended by Sepp Holzer, the Austrian ‘Rebel Farmer’ . The idea is that you dig a big hole, fill it with tree trunks, branches, sticks etc then cover it over with the earth you originally take out. This is supposed to help retain more moisture and over years the trunks will break down and fertilise the bed so less compost and fertilisers are needed. Untitled. At Growing Power, we raise all of our crops sustainably, which is a term that means we grow produce at or above current organic standards but we have not been certified organic by the U.S. government.
Currently, it just is not a priority of ours. We would all much rather be in the fields than filling out lots of paper work for the government. In addition, we buy all of our seed from reputable seed companies who do not treat their seeds with pesticides or other chemicals. Bee Strawbridge. Permaculture Ethics and Design Principles Poster. Permaculture Flower Poster See how permaculture can be applied with this free poster for you to print out.
The Permacuture Flower poster is a great teaching tool to present to students, or as a reference. The flower illustrates how the permaculture journey, begining with the ethics and design principles, moves through the key domains required to create a sustainable culture. Examples of specific fields, design systems and solutions are listed to help understand the concept. Suggested size A3 and above, but can be printed at any size without loss of quality. Usage: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works.
Bees and Permaculture Article and Film- Brigit Strawbridge. We are very proud to have a guest post this week by Brigit Strawbridge on Bees and Permaculture….
First up we have a film of a great talk that Brigit did about bees at the Sunrise Off Grid festival in 2011, followed by a article by Brigit on Bees and Permaculture, a great resource for all bee lovers out there. A quick note, Brigit contacted me to say that at the start of the film she says, there are 200,000 types of bees, but actually it’s 20,000, but it would be great if there was 200,000 Bees and permaculture: I have to admit to being just a little obsessed with bees.
They have fascinated and enchanted me since my childhood, but it is only since the decline of the honeybee began to make headlines a few years ago that I fully realised the magnitude of their importance as pollinators – and how much I had always taken them for granted. Pollinators: Brief overview of the bee population: Bees within a permaculture design: Keeping honeybees: Natural Beekeeping Trust – Using Permaculture Principles to become a better teacher. Teaching and learning are basic human activities that have been going on since the first toolmaker showed his friends how to bash things with a stone.
Sharing knowledge is sustainable and essential to the maintenance of any culture. It does not take institutionalised recognition to make teaching and learning real or relevant. In our efforts to establish permaculture courses as recognised, accredited learning, we are in danger of imposing formats and procedures that relate to political or institutional requirements rather than the real thing. Permaculture is about finding the best way to do things in your own situation. In teaching, or rather in helping people to learn – which is often a different thing altogether – using permaculture principles can offer efficient ways to approach teaching and learning. Here are a few pointers: • Teachers need to be learners.
. • The whole point of teaching is to make the teacher redundant. . • People learn most when they teach someone else. The Bath Gardening School Daily. RDAC Summer Team In Brook Park. Shiftbristol.org. Permaculture Design Permaculture is a design system that works with Nature rather than against it.
An approach to growing, using and conserving resources that harnesses the abundance of our natural world whilst providing for our needs. The Permaculture module aims to equip students with the skills, knowledge and framework to create holistic designs in a range of settings from small gardens to whole farms to community projects.
Permaculture Design provides the structure & philosophy that underpins the whole course, integrating each of the following modules into full and extensive approach to Practical Sustainability in an every evolving world. Led by Sarah Pugh. The Permaculture module also includes an introduction to herbal medicine with Max Drake, wild food foraging with Andy Hamilton, animal husbandry, agroforestry with Martin Crawford and land based practicals with Mike Feingold. Woodland Management Organic Horticulture. How to Create a No Dig Garden with Step-by-Step Pictures. Edit Article Edited by Mike Welton, Lily A, Flickety, Dvortygirl and 4 others Do away with weed-infested areas the easy way.
Make new flower/veggie beds in areas of poor soil by building it up. You can even skip weeding or sod removal. No Digging! Ad Steps 1Build a raised bed first, if you wish. Learn-how-to-garden.com.