Tuesday 1 January 2019

2018 Polyculture Project - Week by Week Updates

Here is a list of week by week blog updates from the Polyculture Project 2018




Week 1 - The Beginning of the Season
Week 2 - Biomass Trials 
Week 3 - More Biomass Trials and Forest Garden 
Week 4 -Forest Gardens, Wildlife and Water Harvesting
Week 5 -Biodiversity Surveys, Vegetable Polycultures 
Week 6 - Planting out and Bird Life
Week 7 - Cherry Heaven, Robinia Coppice and Irrigation channels
Week 8 - Forest Garden Fruit, Wildflowers
Week 9 - Perennial Herbs, Polyculture Gardens
Week 10 -Contour Beds, Forest Garden Layers and Wildlife
Week 11 - Polyculture Vegetable Beds, Garden Organisms and RLD Course
Week 12 - Garden Wildlife, Fruit and Veggie boxes and Eudamonia - new garden
Week 13 - Creating a Raised Bed, Summer Fruits and Wild Rivers
Week 14Summer Herbs and Fruits and Wildflowers in the Polyculture Veg Beds and Forest Garden
Week 15 - Planning for Tree Planting, Biomass Plants, Growing Trees from Seed
Week 16 - Soil Testing, Discovering Local Plants and Woodland Coppice
Week 17 - Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects, Bed Preparation Trials and Forest Garden Plants
Week 18 - Praying Mantids, Native Medicinal Plants and Garden Produce 
Week 19  - Fastest Growing Trees in the Temperate Zone, Seed Harvesting and a Green Toad Gathering
Week 20  - Smut, Ducks in the Garden and Green Manures 
Week 21 - Holidays
Week 22 - Juicing, Seed Harvesting, Shifting Seasons
Week 23 - Broadscale Regenerative Design, Entomology Surveys and Micro climate
Week 24 - The End of the Polyculture Study 2018, Aquatic Plant Propagation and Nut Harvest
Week 25 - Perennial Vegetables, Late Flowering Herbs and Autumn Leaves
Week 26 - An Interview with Info Europa
Week 27 - Winter Arrives, Planting Garlic, Bird Life and a New Forest Garden
Week 28 - The Polyculture Market Garden Study - Results from Year 4 



Thank you to the team of volunteers that joined us for the study and that make it possible for us to carry out our experiments and research. It was a pleasure to work together with you :) Thank you Victoria Bezhitashvili, Angela Rice, Malcolm Cannon, Elise Bijl, Alex Camilleri, Daniel Stradner, Emilce Nonquepan, Ezekiel Orba and Chris Kirby Lambert.


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Upcoming Forest Garden Courses 


If you would like to create a forest garden and gain some practical hands-on experience come and join us for our Design and Build a Forest Garden Course. We'll be covering site surveying, landscape design software, installing access, beds, irrigation channels, planting tree, shrub, herb and ground layers, and wildlife ponds. All in 3 days! And plenty of follow up material to take away with you to digest slowly.


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Regenerative Landscape Design - Online Interactive Course 


Want to learn how to design, build and manage regenerative landscapes?  Join us for our Regenerative Landscape Design - Online Interactive Course from May 1st to Sep 13th, 2023. 

We're super excited about running the course and look forward to providing you with the confidence, inspiration, and opportunity to design, build and manage regenerative landscapes, gardens, and farms that produce food and other resources for humans while enhancing biodiversity.

Regenerative Landscape Design Online Course

You can find out all about the course here and right now we have a 20% discount on the full enrollment fees. Just use the promo code
 RLD2023 in the section of the registration form to receive your discount. 

We are looking forward to providing you with this unique online learning experience - as far as we know, the very first of its kind. If you are thinking of reasons why you should do this course and whether this course is suitable for you, take a look here where we lay it all out. Looking forward to it!

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We offer a diversity of plants and seeds for permaculture, forest gardens and regenerative landscapes including a range of fruit and nut cultivars. We Deliver all over Europe from Nov - March. - Give a happy plant a happy home :)


Our Bio-Nursery - Permaculture/Polyculture/ Regenerative Landscape Plants 

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We're hosting a range of online learning sessions including how to create habitat to enhance biodiversity, how to design and build a forest garden, polyculture design software tutorials, regenerative farm, and landscape design, urban gardening and much more. If you would like to be notified when our next sessions are coming up please add your email below and hit subscribe and we'll be in touch.




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