Visual presentation and lecture covering the main concepts of forest gardening followed by a tour of our established organic forest garden. You will learn more about:
Mixed and companion planted polycultures
Edible foodscapes including food forest, forest gardening and guilds
A low-tech method for small scale production of biochar, a valuable soil additive.
I used douglas fir cones that I raked up from around the trees, packed in the central canister and 'baked' with a fire of coal and wood scraps from the workshop.http://www.holon.se/folke/carbon/simple...
September 25, 2010BiocharGardening
I first heard about the Stirrup hoe from Nelson Lebo during his interview on Two Beers with Steve. As it sounded like a must have tool I set about finding one.
It turns out this hoe is known by many different names, including:
I have been developing a process that directs the energy (and manure) of the chicken into a specific piece of soil. Rather than unleash the chickens in the garden I decided to take the garden (at least bits of it) to them.January 31, 2010chookschickensgardeningweedingmanure
