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This is the time of year when vegetable gardeners grumble about the ‘hungry gap’. A problem for annual vegetable growers, this is the spring period …

The fertility of soil is not just down to the presence of certain mineral nutrients; the soils ability to support the abundant and healthy growth …

Permaculture is often difficult to define as it is not so much A Thing, as a way of thinking. It is in essence an ecological …

Most people interested in practicing permaculture are doing so in a domestic situation – a house or apartment with a garden or in a community …

Patrick Whitefield spent many years tending his vegetable garden and feeding himself and his wife Cathy with it’s produce. There is a popular misconception that …

Soft fruits are one of the most pleasing crops to get from your garden, but also one of the most vulnerable. Blackbirds, squirrels, mice and …

  Earlier this week I attended an event at Monkton Wylde Court entitled ‘A Matter of Scale’, where Rebecca Laughton revealed the results of her …