10 Tips for Developing a Permaculture Orchard
There’s no better time than now to start developing your plans for a permaculture orchard. They are perfect if you want to make money with
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There’s no better time than now to start developing your plans for a permaculture orchard. They are perfect if you want to make money with
On-farm storage systems hold the grains, fruits and vegetables farmers work tirelessly to satisfy consumers’ demands. However, they have exceeded the yields for grain and
When it comes to agriculture in the United States, there is a need for more equality across the board. From thousand-acre row crops to organic
Shane Joyce knows his soils very well and so is able to tune into it very quickly. Whilst he does keep records and uses traditional soil tests, he finds that these simply verify what he already knows.
Listen as Shane Joyce recalls his innovative management when he returned to his family farm, Dukes Plain. When Shane returned the farm had been managed conventionally and was now showing the signs of degraded and depleted soils.
Kirsten and David Jones grow garlic and recently shared their operation at the Mardan-Mirboo Landcare Sustainable Farm Day. This is a warts and all presentation! Kirsten Jones started the highly successful…
We look at a lot of modern tractors these days, they’ve got these little collapsible-type ROPS frames here as well, which are designed for going underneath trees, or that type of thing or in orchards.
In 2015, there were 69 deaths on farms. What would you think would be … I’m going to look at the top five, the headline acts for this sort of thing. What do you think would be the main things that are causing farm deaths?
I want to just tell you a little bit about pruning techniques. What we’ve got here is a pair of bypass secateurs. These are basically with a hook there and a blade there. Keep that as sharp as possible.
If crop rotation is about controlling pests and diseases, why am I planting a crop that’s just as susceptible to this particular problem in the ground in the same bed? So I moved it. I kind of got thinking crop rotation is a good rule…
Extending your harvest using varieties can actually be a really good way of going. That goes with successional planting as well. Just making sure that you plant that…
So grow what you love, and do it in the way you love. There’s many techniques, there’s so many techniques of growing things. I don’t know, a lot of people get caught up on I want to go biodynamics, I want to go permaculture…
So you’ve bought your block of land. Where do you start? Well, plan … I actually start during site analysis. It’s a simple thing. You identify where north is, so where your sun’s going to come across, and make sure that you also do…
Organic certification is one way around that, but there’s a lot of farmers who are not really interested in becoming organically certified, but they still want to produce using biological methods. Fair trade certification.
It’s a total myth that free trade will solve hunger. The world already produces enough food for the expected population in 2050. We’re already producing food enough…
I spend a bit of time in the book talking about technology and research, and the paradigms of research. These days, most agricultural research is funded not by governments.
The government keeps saying to farmers, increase your inputs in order to stay viable, and yet it’s all those inputs that are part of the problem. The answer for a lot of farmers is reduce their inputs as much as they can.
There’s a rapidly growing movement I think of farmers who are becoming more interested in changing their methods, because the old methods cost a lot, and they basically don’t work anymore, for a lot of people.
I don’t know if anyone has heard of Bruce Pascoe, he also lives in East Gippsland where Alan’s from. He wrote a very important book that was published a couple of years ago, Dark Emu. Has anyone heard about this?
Now I’m going to show a little video here if I can get this to work, of how fast we can infiltrate an inch of water on our operation. I told you we started, we could infiltrate a half of an inch per hour.
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