Blogspot - Interia Dezain

After a long cold winter it's great to get started on the third year of our polyculture study and to welcome this year's team to the project. Gabriele and Fergus are the first to join us, along with old friends Ute, Simon, Kartini, Marlene and Karl, who have purchased some land within an area we are working towards protecting . We've been pretty busy developing the new perennial polyculture garden , preparing the beds in the market garden and clearing plots for some new tree plantings. Here's a review of what we've been up to in the market garden so far and in a future post I'll write about developments in the new trial gardens. The Market Garden  This year we'll be running three annual polycultures trials in the market garden, the usual  Zeno , some changes to last year's  Epictetus  polyculture, and a variation on that theme called   Aurelius . Produce from the gardens will be offered in veggie boxes from mid June - late November and we still have room...

Encouraged by high yields and high levels of biodiversity that we have been recording in our  home gardens  we have extended our research to look at how we can provide nutritious affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity in polyculture market gardens. We are delighted to be offering a unique opportunity to take part in this study. Would you like to join us? What are we doing ? We are undertaking a multi year study of market gardening growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nut polycultures. The study aims to compare our polyculture plots with conventional organic plots, record levels of biodiversity in the gardens 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 polyculture gardens  The approach we take to market gardening goes way beyond "organic". We design biological systems that rely on the native ecology to function as opposed to...