Tag Archives: agroecology

Where a bandicoot has dug

Posted on October 22, 2013 by tikiwanderer

There’s a corner up the back of my zone 4 garden with soil like the rest of our area, but worse. Sandy, rainshadowed in winter, heat-burned in summer, hydrophobic off the scale. No sign of any previous soil conditioning, though … Continue reading →

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Friday photo – Under the old lemon tree

Posted on October 18, 2013 by tikiwanderer

For more about the lemon tree bed, you might like to read this post.

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Crop profile – Mulberries

Posted on October 15, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Our neighbour has a mulberry tree. When I was planning the food forest I needed a central primary tree. I spent a lot of time thinking about options, and one that kept coming up was the mulberry. It reaches the … Continue reading →

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Friday photo – Borage and grass bins

Posted on October 11, 2013 by tikiwanderer
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UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Review 2013 released

Posted on September 26, 2013 by tikiwanderer

The Trade and Environment Review 2013 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is subtitled ‘Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate’, so as you’d … Continue reading →

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