#biointensive

I have studied many ways to create a low maintenance, high diversity and edible yielding property. I’ve found permaculture, bio-intensive and food forest practices to be the best. Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans. Making use of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.Forest gardening is a prehistoric method of securing food in tropical areas. In the 1980s, Robert Hart coined the term "forest gardening" after adapting the principles and applying them to temperate climates. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. The term permaculture was developed and coined by David Holmgren, then a graduate student, and his professor, Bill Mollison, in 1978. The word permaculture originally referred to "permanent agriculture", but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture", as it was understood that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming philosophy.It has many branches that include, but are not limited to, ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, and construction. Permaculture also includes integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modelled from natural ecosystems. #permaculture #foodforest #biointensive #agriculture #habitat #sustainability #environment #gardening #organicgardening #perennials #fruittrees #leafygreens #berries #peppers #beans #food #thenewleafproject #nature (at Portland, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLNQDQFATE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1041fpmwjvp8d

My green beans are sprouting. This variety is called “bean garden”. Beans are a seed from several genera of the flowering plant Fabaceae. Green beans when eaten raw or slightly blanched are high in vitamins A and C. These plant species among other legumes have another special property. They contain symbiotic bacteria within nodules on their root system called rhizobia. These bacteria produce nitrogen compounds that help the plant grow. When the plant dies the fixed nitrogen is released and improves soil fertility. #knowledge #info #greenbeans #legumes #biointensive #permaculture #gardening #organicgardening #symbioticrelationship #companionplanting #soil #nature #naturephotography #fabaceae #healthyfood #healthylifestyle #seedlings #seeds #plant #thenewleafproject #rhizobia (at Portland, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo705NblUcZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kkd15yjgkeyq

“Sarah planted this area (Above) near the drive more than a decade ago, greatly reducing labor while keeping the bed full over a long period. Perennial artichokes mix with bulbs and tubers in three layers: dahlias in trenches at the lowest level; Allium hollandicum‘Purple Sensation’  plus earlier and later allium varieties in the middle level; artichokes at the top level. The artichokes shown here are a mixture of ‘Green Globe’, ‘Violet de Provence’, and ‘Gros Vert de Laon’.”

Evening walk checking on crops #notill #biointensive #frenchintensive #annapolisvalley #novascotia #mountainriverfarm

Garden Block 2 #frenchbreakfastradish #thyme #oregano #sage #shiso #beets #spinach #kale #springonion #biointensive #notill #notractor #smallfarmsrock (at Mountain River Farm)

Salads are on point ! :-) #biointensive #frenchintensive #mountainriverfarm #tight (at Mountain River Farm)

No filter needed #biointensive #seasonextension #mountainriverfarm #instafarm (at Mountain River Farm)

Seedling almost ready for transplanting.#biointensive #seasonextension #salad #springgarden (at Mountain River Farm)