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Polyculture Study 2017 - Starting the Growing Season - Update 1

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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...

Polyculture Project - Market Garden Study - Update 9

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It's been a busy month here kicking off with our Regenerative Landscape Design Course . Thank you to all of our wonderful guests and special thanks to Georgi Pavlov for your help running the topography sections, and Kata Prodanov for your help in the kitchen. We had a marvelous time and it was great to welcome back Simon and Kartini who having purchased some land in Shipka are starting the initial stages of their site design. Some pics from The Regenerative Landscape Design Course.  More photos from the  course here . Registration for a June 2017 re-run of this course is now open with an early booking discount of 20% from food and accommodation fees available. For more information on this course click below. Registration Now Open  New to the study this month are Jack and Tadeo who have been a tremendous help, and we'd also like to say a big thank you to Susan Eggers and to Sophie's parents Jan and Keith.  The study is almost over for this season and a few days ...