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Mar 23 •
Finally after 13 months I can get my hands dirty
Hi guys hope your all well we’ve finally arrived in Somerset UK till August Today I’ve been setting seeds in the poly tunnel in glorious sunshine Weeding the electro culture vegetable beds and watching the newly arrived bees get busy What a great time of year to be alive 2026 is going to be a very difficult time for people that don’t grow I believe to actually get fresh vegetables So my advise grow grow grow and share what you can xx
6 likes • Mar 23
hi, Mark great you are back to growing. i am busy here too with seeding, and some plants getting immediately into the soil. and to my great joy some of my still pretty small fruit trees were/are blossoming, so i might get some first fruit. really looking forward to that. this year i am putting im more planzs than i will probably need, at least with some veggies, so i can give some to other people, because i am pretty sure, that there will be food shortages this year
Mar 20 •
Community Supported Herbalism ~ Food Forest in Buckinghamshire
We walked the land yesterday whilst we had the glorious sunshine! Our proposal was accepted to steward the 1.48 acres that I have been deeply connected to on and off for 30 years, and was our little garden back in 2016 - 2017 before my mum needed me closer to her before she passed. We love this land, its roughAF at the moment, but I know it so well, and with a bit of initial input from a good mow we can start gently over the next few months when we are between house sits...and come August we are moving into the village literally 20 yards from the land. I did get chatGPT to make a (not accurate at all) image of what it will become as it always helps with a visual. Both of us have decades of permaculture experience, but...currently dealing with bodies that go 'ouch' a LOT...so, this will be an incredible process to document...how to steward land with physical limitations and devotion to Gaia... We have had heritage seeds donated so far for when we are ready to begin sowing - this year really is for the defining the areas; Where the main herb spirals will be, and laying the membrane for the willow fedge around the chicken gardens. CLEARING (so. much of that) And recovering from each days activities!!!
5 likes • Mar 20
what a great place to take care of! i also work my garden with the principles of permaculture, i have a bit more than one acre. and i also have my physical limitations, but still love doing it. i try not to let it stop me, just things take longer.
4 likes • Mar 21
@Peace Ravenwood i get frustrated quite often too, when i think how easy things had been. i will try to get my son to make a short video of the land as i only have an old nokia. at the moment the first trees have already blossomed and some others are starting to get their first leaves. i put in a lot of trees and bushes 2 years ago and this year we, my son and i, are starting on the veggies. we made a few beds and planted potatoes and some carrots. i already have two raised beds and also we made 2 Hügelbeet. i hope there will be enough space for all, because i have already many seedlings growing and i plan on even more. no idea how things will turn out, but i decided to put in a lot and i hope for most to turn out all right. i still want to get a few chickens, but we need a chicken coop first. we also still need a shed for fire wood and the tools. and of course a greenhouse sometime. but all this takes time to set up.
Mar 9 •
Food Security for the family
Hi beautiful community sorry I've been away at a speaking event the last few days and wow what an event. It shocks me just how many people have no food strategy for their families food stability. For me growing up around farmers growers and producers with people cooking and preserving food it all seems so natural. I hope through this Community Group we can help others get involved in simply just understanding what real food is, and how they can put them selves in charge of it in their home. Big love all xx
6 likes • Mar 10
i find it very hard to understand , why people are not moving with all the things going on. i have no farming background whatsoever, and a few things are a bit hard to get my head around, but i am still trying. i am sure i will have quite a number of failures, but still thats how i learn. what can we do to get people more motivated to change things? any ideas?
1 like • Mar 11
@Rae Stevens yeah i agree. they just have no idea anymore, they lost all contact to nature and plants. and by the way i love knitting too.
Feb 8 •
Feels like springs on the way
Well everyone today the suns out, daffodils are budding out and we actually for once have a clear sky. Lots of people are already starting to set seeds and have them breaking soil, but it is still early so don't waste the seeds if you don't have a way of heating seedlings. What are you all setting this year ? and what amounts ? who here is a patio grower, gardener, allotment grower, small holder or farmer ? We need to all work together to help each other understand how and what to grow :-) Happy Sunday all 🙏
2 likes • Feb 8
this year i will start with the vegetable garden and first i have to figure out how much i need of everything. like how many potatoes will i need per year and so on. i thought i will start with this and later i will start growing more for selling a bit. i also want to try out a few perennial plants, like tree spinach and so on. first to see, if they grow here and then whether i like the taste of them. hopefully my trees will get a big growing boost this year, they are mostly in their 3rd year, so i think they made roots and will start growing now upwards.
3 likes • Mar 5
here the first fruit trees started blossoming, very early this year. soon i will plant my potatoes, got the bed ready for them. i also made 2 Hügelbeet, or hugelculture as you call it, just to see, if they are any good for me or not. the first seeds inside sprouted. so far everything is going according to plan. i also replanted strawberries, i already have some, but they spread so much on the pathway, that i dug them out and put them in other locations, so we will have loads of strawberries. never get enough of them and probably i will not have enough to sell, because i want to make jams and also dry some. i just love this work.
Feb 26 •
College of Knowledge
Hi everyone in our growing community, we are thinking of putting together an E-Book to help people with little knowledge or experience about growing their own food. Is there any of you who would be prepared to write a chapter on your specialty ? @Hans-Gunther Kern @Andrew Munro @Richard Ellam @Richard Higgins and many more of you. We are thinking this would be a basic introduction to what you all specialise in and how they would benefit from using that particular knowledge. Maybe basic hints and tips and information about courses you offer on or offline. This could obviously include email website etc for them to contact you, this is an advertisement for your business / project too. Yes this would be you giving your time for free but a great advertising tool to use in the future, we would put a RRP of £2.99 on this as a download and that money would go to the CIC. Let me know your thoughts everyone please Mark
1 like • Feb 26
a great idea, Mark. unfortunately i do not know enough yet, so i can write something about it.
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@angelika-batsis-6221
after learning permaculture with geoff lawtons PDC course, i started my own food forest about a year ago. i live in Northern Greece
Active 2d ago
Joined Feb 5, 2026