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Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees - Week 6 - The Polyculture Project

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It's been a relaxed week here in Shipka. The main focus has stayed on the market garden where we are sowing and planting out the warm season annual crops. The weather has been warm with cloudy cool spells and the wild vegetation is really starting to take off. The fruits are forming on the trees and shrubs and the promise of summer, albeit 6 weeks away, is in the air. So here's what we've been up to this week. Ronan Delente  a chef who has been travelling the world cooking across the continents has joined as for the study this year. Ronan has been experimenting with various recipes using the wild plants and perennial vegetables from the gardens. He started a blog this week to share his recipes and love for cooking with perennials.  Check out his Falafel recipe here, looks very tasty .  The Forest Garden - Aponia   It's going to be a good year for plums it seems especially the wild  Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum  that grow in abundance in our area. Th...
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Phronêsis our new Forest Garden, Preparing Raised Beds, Launching a Patreon Page and Edible Perennials - Week 5 - The Polyculture Project

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It's been an eventful week here at the project, planting out the market garden crops, digging wildlife ponds and launching a Patreon Page !! We also welcome  Ben, a landscaper from the UK, that joined us for the course and is staying on for a few weeks for  the polyculture study . At the beginning of the week we said farewell to the participants of our Design and Build a Forest Garden course after a marvellous three days of design and build that resulted in the creation of a new forest - details of which will follow.  So here's what we've been up to last week.      The Design and Build a Forest Garden Course Our Design and Build courses are exactly that. We start with the design and end with the build. For  this particular course the location for the new garden was just east of our perennial polyculture trial garden, Ataraxia, in a new area we are developing called Phronesis. The forest garden is named after and dedicated to   Joos...
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