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We've a great course lined up for late summer. You'll be working in small teams of 4 - 6 people to survey and design real plots of land and in larger groups to carry out practicals such as earthworks and wildlife pond building. With a good balance of field work, hands-on practicals and theory and ex...

10 days to go before the start of our Edible Ecosystem Design Course.
Feeling spontaneous? Join us for this seven day adventure in the heart of rural Bulgaria.

http://www.balkep.org/edible-ecosystem- ... ---23.html

Perennial Polycultures - The Biomass Belt: Fertility Without Manure We're extending the Polyculture Project to include experimental perennial polycultures on various plots of our newly acquired land. Our aim is to develop models that are low cost to establish and maintain, can produce healthy afford...

Here's our blog from Balkan Ecology Project

Our mission is to develop and promote practices that provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity.

The blog is full of info related to this

http://balkanecologyproject.blogspot.bg/

Cheers

Paul

Hi doofaloofa If there were a Comfrey Marketing Board i'd like to be on it, I love this plant :) The area is 10m by 1.3m. The bed layout and planting distances are shown in diagrams in the original post from the blog http://balkanecologyproject.blogspot.bg/2016/02/comfrey-believe-hype.html Thanks fo...

We've been experimenting with growing vegetables in polycultures. Here are the results from the second year of our home garden polyculture study where we're looking at the inputs and outputs of annual herb and vegetable polycultures and how we can grow nutrient dense food whilst enhancing biodiversi...

Medlaronia Polyculture This polyculture/guild will provide an early-mid winter harvest of delicious Medlar fruit, highly nutritious Aronia berries, a year round crop of excellent salad onions and the added benefits of mineral accumulation and nitrogen fixation. To view this post with tables and imag...

Medlaronia Polyculture This polyculture/guild will provide an early-mid winter harvest of delicious Medlar fruit, highly nutritious Aronia berries, a year round crop of excellent salad onions and the added benefits of mineral accumulation and nitrogen fixation. To view this post with tables and imag...

There's a plethora of info out there about comfrey but not much detail regarding establishing and managing a comfrey patch so I thought I would write an article to share my experience on this and how we grow comfrey as part of our fertility strategy in the market garden. When writing this article I ...