Based from our Well End Micro-farm in South Hertfordshire, we offer a range of consultancy options for farmers, growers and Eco-villages. Write to us with your request for any of the above. We offer on farm training for HH-1 windrow composting and mineral replenishment to protect you animals and crops from disease. Howard previously cured […]
Course includes health and longevity for Vegetarians. Given in our new Long Barn kitchen at the Well End Micro-farm Cooked on rocket stoves This course is given by the founder of Well End Permaculture who
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It comes to the attention of our course takers at our Well End Micro-farm that neighbouring farms are more or less making concrete of their soil. We walk along public footpaths on some of our courses and it can be clearly seen how the continual deep ploughing brings up the layer of thick sticky clay
Article in the this weeks addition: Farmers Weekly – Sunday 10th August The tyranny of supermarkets continues and their demand for flawless vegetables is bordering on the obsessive. Top plant breeders speak out about how the pursuit of an ideal ‘skin finish’ on our much loved potato is actually inhibiting the development of improvements that would
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If anyone knows a journalist in the Guardian Newspaper, or any journalist, who want to increase knowledge about compost toilets – please ask them to write to us. There have been several articles recently about this subject since Glastonbury and they all stop short of fast processing of human effluent. Our HH-2 system would save
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In the IPC2015 – That’s the International Permaculture Convergence 2015 that will be held in London, a joint presentation will be made by Albert Bates, author of the Biochar Solution and Richard Higgins, author of the Lost Science of Organic Cultivation. Dates and venue to be confirmed.
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Richard Higgins has developed and run the worlds fastest compost toilet system in the world now for over 18 years. The system know as HH-2 is scheduled for Africa and India in the autumn and offers the most benefit to farmers and growers anywhere. Most compost toilets systems are about pretty housings – that of
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This innovative rocket stove was designed on the Well End Micro-farm by Matt Coston and Richard Higgins. It has now been finally tweaked to boil a LITRE of water in 3 minutes. Come and build rocket stoves in the green belt of north London on the Well End Micro-farm Using 5 gallon paint tins we
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The Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh https://plumvillage.org A global community of mindfulness practice centers and monasteries offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living. April 2014 The Bergerac region of south west France saw the first installation of HH-2 The Plum Village Buddhist community are located
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/farming/farming_20140703-1028a.mp3 This discussion starts at 3.12 on transmission of TB in cattle. No one has considered soil fertility as a factor. The discussion involves the Farming Minister George Eustice and scientists from Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He says we have dozens of experts in DEFRA;………… but none of them are even considering soil fertility, or
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