Blogspot - Interia Dezain

How do you grow enough of your own mulch in order to establish thousands of newly planted trees and shrubs?  That's one of the design goals we're attempting to meet for a 5 ha forest farm currently under development. Design Overview  The farm is essentially an agroforestry system comprised of mixed species fruit trees, soft fruits and nitrogen fixing shrubs planted in "Rows," under-storied with support plants, herbs and perennial vegetables.  Between the rows are the "Alleys". The alleys have potential to be used for growing hay, cereals, vegetables or rearing pasture raised poultry such as chickens or turkeys. Illustration of the site by Georgi Pavlov from  Huma What the mulch is for ? There will be 2553 trees and shrubs planted across the site, The mulch will be needed for the first five years while the plants establish, and will conserve water, prevent weed competition and improve soil quality as the mulch slowly decomposes over the seasons. For the first...

It's coming to the end of the first year of our market garden polyculture study and we've now said goodbye to the last of our amazing team of volunteers. We feel privileged to have been joined by a colourful array of characters making a brilliant team, and are very grateful for the time and energy they put into the study -  without them it wouldn't have been possible. March - Day 1 on the site  July  in the same spot with  production peaking   Eternal gratitude goes out to our team of volunteers -  Plamen Pekov, Anna Boncheva, Trisha Franke, Petar Csobán, Alina Pekalska, Alexandra Broda, Kristian Deltchev, Hannah and Dobril, Katrine Bach Hansen, Kyle De Luca, Katalin Prodanov and Ashley and Orion. The first few weeks - Photos by Trisha Franke The next few months -  Photos by Trisha Franke We'd also like thank Vitalia Baranyai and Birgit Albertsmeier for analysing the soil samples, Georgi and Smilyan Pavlov from  HUMA ...