Permaculture Courses and Services by Chris Pepper

22/04/2020

its earth day today so have a look at this it may give some cheer and help us in our earth care to keep on moving on https://www.earthday.org/

Visit the official Earth Day site to learn about the world's largest environmental movement and what you can do to make every day Earth Day.

22/04/2020

this will be good ... the first permaculture talk i ever had was at maddy harlands house 20 odd years ago ......it will be good

Maddy Harland, founder of Permaculture Magazine (permaculture.co.uk) speaks about climate crisis and some solutions permaculture provides.

21/04/2020

heres a good bit of info about looking after young trees in spring https://youtu.be/y9m4LE6m9Fo i have one out the back which i will be doing this to very soon......

Aranya demonstrates how he and his partner Jules mulch their young fruit trees, with what, and why. He also shows you how to give your new tree a mycorrhizal...

16/04/2020

heres a little something i saw to help keep those pesky critters off your brassicas ... and to demonstrate the marvelous creators of permaculture magazine to you in their garden inthe sunny south of england

https://youtu.be/bLVWab3fOQE

What to grow broccoli, cabbage and kale but always picking off caterpillars or shooing away pigeons? Sick of getting tangled up in temporary netting?! Tim an...

09/04/2020

good morning to you all

just thought i would share this little thing with you about how to make a hotbed for your polytunnel , greenhouse , or even for outside

its kept me busy for a good few hours and made me very happy that i had all the parts to hand and that i had saved and gathered in waiting (in some cases) for the job to crop up that would fit the bill

firstly i pinched the design from this fine book

photos in sequence

then i made the box

dug out the soil from the area it was now covering and was amazed how much it 'fluffed' up i have not dug in the greenhouse for a long time ....

the barrow shows half of the amount i dug out

into the hole i put a mix of horse and cow manure that was quite well rotted

and to this i added chainsaw dust that i had been saving for the compost loo.... this i mixed very well with the manure. i mixed in the wood dust because i want to kick start the composting process again and by adding this i am adding carbon to the manure which is quite high in nitrogen.

i still need to add one more ingredient as it says in the description from the process as described in the book

the manure was quite old so had already been quite composted another kick of nitrogen to really get things going with those lovely composting bacteria ......

its in the watering can and ready to go a bit of p*e , wee , p**s or what we usually flush off down the loo .... here it is doing a job of value in the garden. Its in the watering can and in the final photo you can see the sawdust and manure mix ready to get the boost of nitrogen

final bit is to put the soil you dug out erlier back on top perfect for the plants to be planted directly into once the bed has selled down on a couple of days time

the process of composting will make a bit of heat and that will help keep the tender plants that will go out frost free at night

at time of posting this the far north of scotland is still getting frosts so here is a great way of saving energy and keeping the plants safe that will work all through the uk when frost and cold temperatures are threatening.

it will also feed the ground and the plants for years to come till the next time

enjoy

chrisp

03/04/2020

i was just thinking of when i first heard of permacultulture many years ago and could not find any information about it apart from what my friend dee had told me she discoverred when she had been away in wales for a month ..... this was the first time i heard the word permaculture ..... she said hey chris ... i think you would like this thing called Permaculture ... all about growing and the land and making good choices where you put thngs and how they interact and saving energy and resources and working with nature ... 1998 ... no internet then and it took me a whole year before i found a book on it ..... at the dorset steam fair on a stall that was raising money to fix up an old water mill by selling stuff including little boats made out of old tin cans and with a candle heating up a pipe which made steam which drove the thing along all in a bowl of water .... fantastic but not luckily for sale cos i would have grabbed that clever device .... so i looked on the stall and among a load of other books i found it .... my first pemaculture book ... by graham bell THE PERMACULTURE GARDEN (perview is on google books but i tried but maybe didnt succeed in posting the url here so you may need to chase it up yourselves it is worth it even all these years later .... a fantastic read and one i reckommend heartily and even fall into a spelling mistake just thinking of that moment i read it cover to cover over and over ... spoke to people over and over about it and started my permaculture jorney right there MORE SOON AND A REASON WHY THIS BOOK IS IN MY MIND AT THIS PRESENT TIME

01/04/2020

wow folk its been a long time that i aint been here ... hope to post somre stuff soon as occassionally through this enforced lockdown i get a minute so ... hope to see you soon

31/01/2015

European Commission To Ban Heirloom Seeds and Criminalize Plants & Seeds Not Registered With Government.
►www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/05/european-commission-to-criminalize-seeds-and-plants-not-registered-with-the-government/

31/01/2015

just a quick reminder to any local to moray folk that i will be running this course in just over a fortnight .... excellent learning as always and just outside the town of Forres in a beautiful orchard

making another poster that works on facebook and here it is and again i need to say that the course is happening just outside forres in morayshire, scotland in a lovely orchard email address is on here and contact phone number that will be able to give you more information and book through

happy reading

cp

31/01/2015

simple information sharing on how to plan and plant a forest garden ... i always love to see how Graham Burnett shows permaculture design elements in such an accessable way

Graham Burnett explains how to plan & plant a forest garden on a balcony, urban garden or allotment... it’s all down to the planning! Out in #83. For details: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/pm83

31/01/2015

that is a heartening percentage to read about

Dream --> reality.

(via Greenpeace International)

21/01/2015

how to light up your rocket stove

19/01/2015

http://www.permaculture.co.uk/videos/oldest-food-forest-britain

inspiring and fantastic to me

Visit Graham and Nancy Bell, permaculture teachers and creators of the oldest permaculture food forest in Britain.Over 20 years ago, they began planting a wide range of fruit trees, vegetables, perenn...

16/01/2015

"Straw bale building volunteers UK & Ireland".

a good site for networking here on facebook

09/01/2015

http://thelaststraw.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BuildItWithBales_1-6.pdf

heres an interesting link to the first straw bale building book i ever read ... during the first straw bale building course i attended many years ago in far off macedonia which was at that point one of the centres of straw bale building

09/01/2015

am feeling very enthused to chat this evening with someone who also has an interest in cob and cordwood building ...
and yes that is me just above building/demonstrating with cob and cordwood ... this building also has a reciprocal framed roof, a rocket stove mass heater and straw bale built walls .... if i blow my trumpet hard the walls will not fall down ... i taught all these skills in the south and look forward to doing so again up here in northern scotland

some of it could be this summer

ps my friend has just built a rocket mass heater over inverness way
just as efficient as a rocket stove cooker and keeps you warm to on a very small amount of wood being combusted ( much more efficient than a standard woodburner)

will keep you posted

07/01/2015

http://youtu.be/3QiuIan6Fj0
heres a film made locally near inverness and which may seem off the point but at 7.28 there is a snippet which shows a rocket stove made at the first workshop i did up here in the highlands .. stii going strong after 3 years and a fair bit of use i know during those 3 years ...

and what a superb and inspiring film this ... reminds me much of the work i did in the south during my many years supporting folk both in and out of the mental health system .. marvelous and often with rocket stoves too

Nature and Wellbeing Seminar December 2014. Organised by Fiona Chalmers working for Dunain Community Woodland and funded through a grant from the Big Lottery...

07/01/2015

said veg oil can original ingredients

but here's something better that i am making out of the can