Blogspot - Interia Dezain

Encouraged by high yields and levels of biodiversity that we have been recording in our home gardens , in 2015 we extended our research to look at how we can provide nutritious affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity in a polyculture market garden. We are delighted to be offering a unique and dynamic learning opportunity for five people to  come and take part in the study in 2019. Would you like to join us? What are we doing ? We are undertaking a multi year study of a 1/2 acre (2000 m2) market garden growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nut polycultures. The study aims to compare our annual polyculture plots with conventional organic plots, record levels of biodiversity in the garden and look at set up and running costs (in terms of finances and time) and outputs in terms of produce and income. Diversity of high quality biologically produced food from our gardens  The approach we take to market gardening goes way beyond "organic". We design bi...

Encouraged from results we have been seeing in our home garden polycultures, last year we decided to scale up our efforts and explore the potential of a polyculture market garden. We put a calling out for a crew to help us develop the garden and run the study and had a great response. Huge thanks go to Plamen Petkov, Anna Boncheva, Trisha Franke, Petar Csobán, Alina Pekalska, Kristian Deltchev, Alexandra Broda, Hannah Filer, Dobril Vasilev, Katrine Bach Hansen, Kyle De Luca and Katalin Prodanov for contributing their time and energy, and for making year one of our study possible. The Team on site in March and August  The aim of the study is to gather data to help us address the following questions; Can we provide clean, nutritious, affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity? How bio-diverse can our food producing systems be? How productive can polycultures be? How much time do such gardens take to establish and manage? How economically viable are these gardens? This first y...

Here's a review of last season in photos. Thanks to everyone who was involved, we're looking forward to coming season.      If you would like to create a forest garden and gain some practical hands on experience join us this Spring. We'll be covering site surveying, landscape design software, installing access, beds, irrigation channels, planting tree, shrub, herb and ground layers and making a small wildlife pond. All in 3 days! And plenty of follow up material to take away with you to digest slowly. Design and Build a Forest Garden Course Would you like to be involved in the project? We are currently offering 1 - 6 month positions on our polyculture study. Permaculture and Regenerative Design Internships  We offer a diversity of plants and seeds for  permaculture and forest gardens   including a range of  fruit and nut cultivars . We Deliver all over Europe from Nov - March. Give a happy plant a happy home :)  The Bionursery Would you ...