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November at The Patch
On returning from our road trip we came back to a very different Patch. As we move through autumn our vegetable garden has started to die back although there are still a few bits and pieces to...
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Forest Gardening by Robert Hart
I’ve just finished reading this amazing and insightful book by Robert Hart. When learning about designing a food forest I kept hearing about how not to do it like Robert Hart did which intrigued me....
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Project Report 1
Well I feel that I have finished my first project report ready for tutor and peer review. After starting a couple of months later than the rest of the gang I have been slightly rushed but in keeping...
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Patch Update…
Happy new year everyone! We have not heard anything yet from the council regarding our planning application but we’re keeping our fingers crossed. More trees arrived from Martin Crawford at the end...
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Patch Packdown
I’m writing this post from a blue washed rooftop in Chefchaouen, Morocco. We arrived a week ago after a fairly hands on last week at the Patch in England. We managed to do everything we felt we...
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Synergistic Gardens at La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza
I have just finished a week volunteering with Elena in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Our main focus was in the vegetable gardens. Elena follows Emilia Hazelip’s methods adapted to a temperate...
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Gorilla in the Mist
We have been in Italy for 6 weeks in total. For each new person we meet or new village we enter we wonder if we’ll ever have a truly authentic Italian experience. Some time with a family would be nice...
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News from Busso…
Today brings welcome news from Italy. The very nature of our journey means that we are connecting with, working with and then inevitably parting way with friends, couch surf hosts and wwoof hosts along...
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The Patch – Remote Permaculture Maintenance
One of our big concerns once our food forest was planted, and knowing that we would be leaving the country for an unknown amount of years, was how would our little fruit trees and bushes survive the...
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The Patchworks Family
The last blog update from the Patch was my birthday family mulching session back in December. I thought that now Nina and I are settling into life in Australia it was about time for a long distance...
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