Tag Archives: market garden
Week 1 in the Milkwood Market Garden – 2 Sep 11
So here I am back at Milkwood – I did my Permaculture Design Certificate here in October 2009 – and I’ve hit the ground running. It is Friday evening – we arrived here lunchtime on Tuesday – and I have … Continue reading
Wednesday 31 August – Starting the Market Garden at Milkwood
When we loaded up our truck and trailer last Monday we did think that our poor old VW Transporter was going to be working well over the limit of a 1 tonne ute. First of all there was the walk-behind … Continue reading
Wednesday 17th August – Stephen at Allsun Farm
Stephen has only been at Allsun Farm for 8 days – phew! We have covered a huge amount of ground with him and we too have planted broad beans. So what have we covered so far? Laying hens – our … Continue reading
Growing Annual Vegetables CD Rom: review
So we’re sitting at the kitchen table, planning our market garden with Joyce and Mike from Allsun Farm, and Joyce suddenly looks at me sharply: “you’ve seen our vegetable growing CD ROM, haven’t you?” Erm, no? With forewords by Eliot … Continue reading
Shifting to community-scale food thinking
This week I received all our yearly seed catalogs, and, as usual, started planning feverishly. How many is too many weird and wonderful heirloom watermelon varieties? And then I paused. Wait a minute, we’re aiming for community scale in our … Continue reading
Planning our organic market garden
I never thought we would get excited about, let along plan to do, the whole market garden thing. But while I’m all for no-dig polycultures like our domestic-scale kitchen garden, I’m also a pragmatist. These days, we need more vegetables … Continue reading
