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Permaculture Beginnings: Season start
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Friday, 16 May 2014. It has been a long winter but nature is slowly coming around. Eastern Canada has a very short season and we only got to make a start this week. So stay tuned, there will be a lot going on this summer. We are planning to give several courses this year one of them at least involving heavy machinery and implementation of water course features on a 10acre piece of land. Yes there will be lots. There ...
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Permaculture Beginnings: Pond update
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Wednesday, 11 September 2013. I am totally excited. The pond that we put in last year has so far shaped up to be a real good habitat for a lot of different animals and plants. So this year I added what I actually did not want to add until next year - fish. Actually I had planned to add some minnows this year to establish a food base for trout that were supposed to be introduced next year. I had to try it. But jud...
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Permaculture Beginnings: Update
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Tuesday, 25 June 2013. So I thought I will give a little update here as it has been a looong while since the last post. I apologize for the delay. There have been several things happening and it has been really busy (which is half the reason for not posting anything.apologies). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thought Exercises 1 Part 2. Solar powered - Greenhouse Part 3. Thermal mass - Greenhouse Part 2. Oh my, i...
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Permaculture Beginnings: Fertilising a garden bed with seaweed
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Friday, 6 December 2013. Fertilising a garden bed with seaweed. As mentioned in the first post we want to use seaweed collected from the beach to fertilise our garden bed. I also collected some blue mussels I found during an inspection of our boat mooring. They had grown to a phenomenal size on the rope under the buoy and were just enough for a little lunch before working out in the garden. So after the ground is loo...
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Permaculture Beginnings: Thought Exercises 1 Part 2
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Friday, 21 February 2014. Thought Exercises 1 Part 2. This post is the second part of Thought Exercises 1. To read part one click here. Fig 1 Bird's-eye schematic. The additional options for boxes B that I referred to are that the inside walls could easily be designed to be put in or lifted out in stages. Why would this be useful? Okay potatoes, but what was that about carrots? Or would they simply be smothered?
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Permaculture Beginnings: Seaweed gardening
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Tuesday, 3 December 2013. Seaweed is the bomb! Yes it is. If you are lucky enough to live by the seaside and have access to seaweed you have a free source of superb food for your soil and for yourself. A little bit about the stuff. Seaweed comes in many forms, long and thin, broad, with little gas bubbles (oh the bubblewrap effect) or as hairlike strands. W or wood chips or whatever you might use currently. As you kn...
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Permaculture Beginnings: The keyhole garden bed
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Monday, 27 May 2013. The keyhole garden bed. One of the wonderful things about Permaculture is that it encourages to think about different shapes and layouts than just the rectangular shape so prominent in todays' world. Keyholes can be put beside each other to make a whole row of beds. The look can also be very appealing (in our opinion anyway). We use them often in garden designs that are close to the house...Oh my...
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Permaculture Beginnings: The mysterious Kedron Balls
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Saturday, 18 May 2013. The mysterious Kedron Balls. It is a long weekend and we are busy with getting the garden ready for planting in the next 2 weeks or so. I will post how everything looks and what we did soon, but for now I wanted to share something that isn't directly Permaculture related, but still makes me think about patterns and motion. The mysterious Kedron ball. 5 July 2013 at 17:56. Hi there. I just f...
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Permaculture Beginnings: An old friend we are just getting to know (again)
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A blog about Permaculture and sustainable living exploring technical and social aspects. Thursday, 11 July 2013. An old friend we are just getting to know (again). When looking through old cookbooks (I mean the really old ones) it is surprising how many different vegetables are mentioned that we have completely forgotten about. Most of us know that dandelions were once a commonly used green, but who has heard of marhsmallow? Fresh out of the ground. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In my last post I t...
