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- Growing Oca Lots of interesting, thoughtful and detailed information on oca and other perennial roots plus growing in polycultures.
- Landed – forest gardening blog Lovely blog following the development of a small edible forest garden first planted in winter 2008.
- Permaculture Magazine Permaculture Magazine is always bursting with fascinating information, not to be missed
- Plants for a Future A vast database of edible and other useful plants.
- Radix Researching root crops, lots of detail
- Sustainable Smallholding A blog about useful sustainable practices that have been tried and tested
- Transition Network Transition to me is permaculture made manifest in a place, lots on this site to explore
- Transition Vision Visionary journey of Ruth and Louis round the transition towns of the world
- WeForest Permaculture charity engaging local communities round the world to replant forests on massive scale
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- Nursery of Eric Deloulay (Pepiniere Eric Deloulay) Nursery offering perennial vegetables, herbs for sale
- Plantes et Jardins French supplier of perennial vegetables amongst many other things.
- The Real Seed Company Based in Wales they grow their own seeds of interesting and unusual seeds. Highly recommended for a browse!
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Growing Oca (2)
There is a lot of interest in growing oca – the post back in April http://annisveggies.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/growing-oca/ is one of the most visited ones on the blog – so I thought it was time for a quick update on how it is … Continue reading
Is anyone interested in piloting a demonstration of perennial vegetables?
I would really like to hear from you if you are interested in working with me to plan and plant a polyculture of perennial vegetables in your back garden. Ideally I am looking for someone who: Lives in the UK. Is passionate about … Continue reading
Growing Oca
I grew oca for the first time last year and loved it. The taste of the tubers has been described as lemony potatoes and that is a good description. It was hard not to eat them all but I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables, roots and tubers
Tagged forest garden, forest gardening, Oca, perennial vegetables
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Forest Gardening in Miniature (2)
If you are reading this you are almost certainly acquainted with what a forest garden is. If you are not then go to http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/forgndg.html to see Martin Crawford walking in and talking about his forest garden. His garden is utterly lovely … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Gardening, Perennial Vegetables
Tagged forest garden, forest gardening, Permaculture
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Early Bounty
Wild garlic is now growing in profusion in the garden. I have been harvesting small leaves for a couple of weeks but it seems that recent rain has brought on a growth spurt and large leaves abound. I use it … Continue reading
Posted in Forest Gardening, perennial greens, Perennial Vegetables
Tagged forest garden, three cornered leek, wild garlic
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