Hey Rowan and Wendy, Nice to see you on the list. We are the first. I have not been checking it so I didn't see you all join till just now, so Hi. But I really...
Just joined this group as I'm sure it will be interesting but excuse my lack of communication from now on til Xmas as I'm off to Madagascar tonight and will...
Hi Anna and all. Nice to see you on. Wanted to ask if you will have a digital camera with you? If so, bring us home some nice pics, please. If you're not using...
Hi, just joined, thanks Niels. Good day at swillington yesterday pottering with currants and secateurs. As ever time spent with Niels is an education....
Suzi, Welcome. And what can I say? CHeque's in the post, mate, thanks. Though I am the same, learning lots when people visit and from you yesterday, with...
Hi Niels, _Agroforestry and Polyculture Practice_ I am doing a lot of experiments, but for the time being we have two basic models we are experimenting with: ...
Niels, _Annual Polycultures as Stepping-Stones to Permanent Agroforests_ As you can see, we use polycultures to implant permanent agroforest systems, so they...
Hello all lovely people, This mail is to caveat a series of mails I will be posting later today. They are copies of a correspondence between myself and the...
Niels, _Directives from the father of the system: Ernst Gotsch_ Ernst argues that in an agroforests all the stories of the vertical space must be occupied at...
_Elephant Grass Based-Systems_ We are still experimenting with this. Just across the path from the cashew field I implanted a citrus-based field, with elephant...
Since writing Niels we have changed our model. For next year we have chosen an area with some shrubs and trees, of types known to enhance the soil. We have...
Hi peeps, Wondered if you had any feelings on the process and importance of thinning in polycultures. I know Chris, you mention it particularly, in your manual...
Hi Niels briefly, some answers to your questions: in the polyveg system, thinning is harvesting - you're eating what you thin. It can also be compared to a...
Thank you so much for a wonderful post, Chris! I would like to buy your manual. I have never been particularly good at veggies, especially since I tend to like...
Any of you folks out there..... another eternal question. How to arrange plants in a community. Do any of you good folk have any tips on how to pattern plants...
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Marsha, a question regarding management in your polycultures. I see you recommend pruning, to regulate the amount of light available to key species, the...
Chris, some clarifying questions to your responses. If you will. ... -ah if only the plants were that big, that you could actually see the stems. ... -So how...
Hi Niels responses below cheers Chris ... both - they can be the same - pulling clumps &/or evening out the canopy. pull too much & u create a space that other...
Gaia's Garden is a book written by Toby Hemenway. The tagline is "A Guide to Home scale Permaculture". It has a chapter on intercropping and polycultures. The...
Polyculture People! Hello, my name's Ethan Roland, I am Permaculture designer + teacher living in northeastern north america (humid temperate climate, min temp...
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I'm brand new here, and new to permaculture - I've gardened for over 30 years, but always more or less traditionally. The booklet on mixed vegetable gardening...
Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Carey. I live with my husband and daughter on a 1/5 acre urban homestead in the middle mid-West United...
thanks carey welcome aboard! i too am living in an semi-urban area (northampton, massachusetts) and have some similar restrictions on animals, hampering the...
ethan, Still sounds like a great patch out the front there. Any chance we can get some photos of it? Be really great to get them hosted on a Flickr account, or...
Thought I would introduce myself as well. I have been focusing on perennial polycultures within forest garden designs in Devon, England for about a year. I...