UK Veg crops affected by excessive weather
Vegetable crops are threatened due to excessive wet weather. Oil seed rape production is down 38% Olive oil prices increase 108% due to excessive drought
Richard Higgins
18 April 2024
Planting fruit trees and bushes in a forest garden
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This is a one day course covering the design placement and planting of fruit trees and bushes within a forest garden. We will be planning a strawbale heat sink within the forest garden and laying the rubber tyre foundation, to enable maximum warmth for these items. Also the planning and cutting of a mown path through it. We will be planting nut trees, mulberry, pear and raspberry and gooseberry bushes. Also how to keep what are considered as bad weeds and use them as edibles and others as nutrient suppliers. We boost our trees off with a good dose of our HH -2 compost which helps protect against excessive damp/drought conditions. Highly productive ecosystems.
This course is suspended while we look for a new farm
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New information on Olive Oil
New findings from Michael Mosely. A BBC broadcast on the Today programme It is now found that previous information on cooking with Olive oil is
Richard Higgins
13 April 2024
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