The Polyculture Project 2019 - A Week by Week Diary and the Season in Pictures.

We're so grateful that people from all over the world join us for our polyculture study each year with so much enthusiasm and help us on our mission to develop and promote practices that provide food and other resources while enhancing biodiversity.  Each week I write a short record of what we got up to at the project. Here is the week by week diary from the season followed by the season in pictures.

Polyculture Study /Permaculture Internship 2019

Thanks x 1000 again to the crew of 2019, it was an absolute pleasure to host you here. 

Ronan Delente - Michael Krack - Leonie Steinherr - Ben Peirson - Lilly Clark - Martin Votava - Amy Brangwyn - Eileen Wylicil - Tobi and Christina.Ruchel - Karo Castro-Wunsch - Kiki Ami - Maria Cruz - Shahara Khaleque - Jolanda de Rooij - Paul Vdsande - Simon Leupi  - Eva Goldmann - Ryan Sapsed - Rowan Brooks - Joana de Melo Sampaio - Ezekiel Orba - Ranjetha Vijayakumar  - Chris Kirby Lambert - Peter Alfrey -  Mihaela Tzarchinska  - Philip Varionov - Lea Valfigueira

The awesome polyculture study crew of 2019 

Week by Week Updates of the Season

Week 1 - A Blueberry Polyculture, Fastest growing plant in the Temperate Zone? and a New Garden

Week 2 - Bio Pest Control, Green Manure Trials, Oeschberg Pruning and Wildlife in the Gardens

Week 3 - Planting a Polyculture Orchard, Biomass Trials, the Forest Garden and Wildlife

Week 4 - Foraging for Wild Garlic, Forest Garden Maintenance, Planting out Polycultures

Week 5 - Phronêsis our new Forest Garden, Preparing Raised Beds, Edible Perennials

Week 6 - Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees

Week 7 - Grape, Blueberry and Jostaberry Polyculture, Wildlife Pond and Bioblitzing

Week 8 - Fruits from the Forest Garden, Lining the Wildlife Pond and Garden Wildlife

Week 9 - Integrating Wildlife Patches in the Vegetable Garden, Chop and Dropping

Week 10 - Pest Control in the Garden, Cutting Comfrey and a new Forest Garden - Ekpyrosis

Week 11 - Thinning and Lifting in the Forest Garden, Biomass Plants and Garden Wildlife

Week 12 - 14 - A New Forest Garden, Edible Day lilies, Buckwheat and Corn, Garden Wildlife

Week 15 - Plum Season, Growing Paulownia Trees for Shade/Mulch and some Forest Garden Plants

Week 16 - Green Manure Trials, Building a Micro-Wetland, Perennial Polycultures

Week 17 - Wild Polycultures, Hedging, Magical Mulberry Tea and Forest Garden Plants

Week 18 - Habitat Mosaic, Measuring Garden Wildlife, Biomass Belts and Forest Garden Plants

Week 19 - Hazelnut Harvest, Broken Branches, Wild Flowers and Forest Garden Plants

Week 20 - Forest Garden Fruits Galore, Serpentine Irrigation Channels and the arrival of Ducklings

Week 21 - Robinia Coppice, Gravity Fed Drip Irrigation, Bee Garden and Forest Garden Plants

Week 22 - Preserving and Processing, Aquatic Habitat Island and Garden Biodiversity

Week 23 - Juicing Grapes, Birds in and Around the Gardens and Moth Trapping

Week 24 - Robinia Hedging, Forest Garden Fruits, Wild Boar Destruction

Week 25 - Starting a New Garden, Propagating Currants, and the Last Week of the Project

 

Regenerative Landscape Design - Online Interactive Course 

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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!

The Season in Pictures

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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!-------------------------------------------------------

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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