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The rains recorded this past week in Andalusia have caused numerous incidents in this autonomous region of Spain. There has been a waterspout in Cadiz and even a tornado in the Seville municipality of La Algaba, but in general, these rains have been very beneficial for the agricultural sector. After two…
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Hi, what can I achieve on 2.5 acre property in that climate?
Is there enough space for self sustaining a family of 4 plus some extra production to sell? What can I expect realistically?
I can’t eat many fruits but I need for my diet quite some legumes, vegetables and some nuts or things like that.
Would there be space for chickens and maybe a couple of animals like sheep or donkey?
Is there any design I can look at to take inspiration within my climate?
Thank you!
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I’ve got a 7m x 4m allotment plot in the UK (South East) It’s currently laid out as raised beds with a mid sized shed / greenhouse. I vaguely follow a no dig approach.
I’d like to transition to a more permaculture driven approach but there’s a few limitations: I can’t introduce trees and animals are not an option.
This year I wanted to take something like 4m x 3m and adopt permaculture practices but I’m struggling to figure out how to do that – the main thing I’m thinking of is smallish plant guilds and companion planting in a way that is organized enough that I know what I’m doing. I guess I’m looking for ‘modular’ options to start with and then expand upon
Any tips appreciated.
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What’s happening to our native wildlife across the country is just as horrific as what we witnessed in that video – it’s just occurring behind closed doors
We’ve all seen the distressing footage of an American influencer taking a wombat joey away from its mother. The joey hisses and stirs, while the distraught mother circles the woman until she eventually drops it back to the side of the road.
The tourist calls herself both a conservationist and an ecologist. But most of us can recognise that this is not the behaviour of someone who values our native wildlife.
For 2025, the Mellano and Company team in Southern California is getting ready to celebrate 100 years of sustainable floral farming.
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Cuttings of tree captured by John Constable being planted on restored Devon floodplain
Captured by John Constable in one of his most celebrated paintings, the black poplar tree was once as common as oak and beech in Britain.
Now the rarest and most threatened native species in the country, the National Trust is creating a living gene bank of the black poplar to ensure Constable’s The Hay Wain does not become a tribute to an extinct breed.
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I have some wonderful raw goat whey from making labneh out of kefir. I also just sowed some seeds for this growing season, but alas, I am quite inexperienced and didn’t have enough seedling mix soil on hand, so I mixed it with my native outdoor garden soil. I DID read that you should mix about 20% native soil in with your seedling mix, but I did 50/50 to make it spread, and picked out the rocks/chunks.
PLOT POINT: I completely forgot about fungus, algae, mold, and bacteria. 😃👏👏👏 NOW, I’m inoculating every cell with diluted whey before the seeds sprout (or rot), so that the lactobacillus hopefully protects and takes over. (I don’t want dampening and have a limited amount of seeds.)
Making sure that there’s a heat mat for the peppers and eggplants, a dome ontop, and being VERY careful with watering. I have a slight concern that the soil is a little too dense and not enough oxygen, so what should I do? What would you do in this sitch?
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From the American Floral Endowment, the Demaree Family Floriculture Advancement Fund will support innovation in the floral industry.
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A giant greenhouse could be in the works for Kapuskasing. A request to negotiate a memorandum of understanding between the town, GreenFirst Forest Products, and Kap Paper Inc. was approved by the council on Monday night. The greenhouse could be built near the proposed co-generation facility and use some…
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