Adding mulch to your flowerbeds has many benefits But only if it’s done correctly. This week I’m going to show you the CORRECT way to add mulch to your flowerbeds. There are many great benefits of mulching your flower beds…
Tag: Environment
Permaculture Neighbors at the Greening the Desert Site
Here we are. I’m outside the Greening the Desert Project. Comes all the way down this wall from that distinct rock behind me. And right across the road here, this is Abla’s little garden, which is racing along as a…
Geoff Leads a Teaching Tour of the Greening the Desert Site
Okay, welcome everybody. We’re going to do a tour around the site like a circle. So we’ve got, now it’s about 11 years from when we started and it looked like, more or less, any of the bare blocks around…
10 Terrific Tomato Growing Tips – Growing PERFECT Tomatoes at Home
Water Recycling with Reed Beds
This here is our greywater gravel reed bed. So this horizontal delivery pipe drops the water evenly through large boulders and then it soaks through underneath the gravel where the roots under these reeds take out the minor toxins. There’s…
Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
Hi, this is Alex and this is my favorite apple – the McIntosh. I think it has a remarkable flavor, but what’s even more remarkable is that it grew on a tree that’s over two hundred years old. I mean,…
Farming to forestry
We’re here today at Howard’s wood in Dorset standing in this wonderful broadleaf woodland. I’m here with Helen who’s the woodland owner and I wanted to ask you what was some of the reasons why you planted this woodland in…
Diuris brumalis (Orchidaceae) is masquerading as pea plants
Hello everybody, I am Daniela, I am here to present to you the discovery of the mimicry pollination strategy of the orchid Diuris brumalis. We are in the south-western Australian corner, a hotspot of biodiversity, where Diuris brumalis grows. The…
The Best We Have To Offer? | How Ireland Exposes Humane Farming
I want you to imagine that one morning you wake up and as you stretch in bed, your fingers graze your oak headboard and suddenly, before your eyes, you see the tiniest acorn fall to the ground, sink into the…
