Yggdrasil, in Vissenaken, Belgium, where permaculture is taught and practiced in a 12 ha. garden, has renewed its website. Check it
here, and do click on the photos. I revisited after taking a course on permaculture some years back. In the picture are two herb spirals. Next year I hope to build one of my own (I'd need 3 metric tons of material).
This (above) used to be an empty farmer's field suffering from erosion.... in 1997. Berry shrubs have been planted at the beginning of the vegetable beds on either side of the pathway.
In permaculture backaches are a thing of the past - no digging, no unearthing soil, but only covering it, with carton, with hay, with mulch, with compost. Good neighbors in veggies and fruits mingle so as to let each plant thrive as much as possible.
Beds are 120 cm wide and bulging with covering material, with walk ways of 50-60 cm in between, covered with woody morsels. Beds seem unorganised, but there is method into this madness and so much variety that looking around here is never boring.
The place is teeming with insect life, rainy day or not... my camera isn't even special, nor did I look for insects, they simply were in view.
Don't cut your trees, just make vegetable beds around them, such as with this small walnut tree, standing in the middle of a vegetable patch. I was greatly inspired by this.
Berry shrubs have been planted in front of the vegetable patches, but here is a small fence which has berries nearby but which also helps snow peas climb.
The place is an oasis of calm, a garden of Eden worth visiting where there is lots to see, pick, and eat. The owners will say farewell to their little shop in September, but the garden stays put, as well as the educational courses. Do go there.
Yggdrasil, in Vissenaken, Belgium, where permaculture is taught and practiced in a 12 ha. garden, has renewed its website. Check it here, and do click on the photos. I revisited after taking a course on permaculture some years back. In the picture are two herb spirals. Next year I hope to build one of my own (I'd need 3 metric tons of material).
This (above) used to be an empty farmer's field suffering from erosion.... in 1997. Berry shrubs have been planted at the beginning of the vegetable beds on either side of the pathway.
In permaculture backaches are a thing of the past - no digging, no unearthing soil, but only covering it, with carton, with hay, with mulch, with compost. Good neighbors in veggies and fruits mingle so as to let each plant thrive as much as possible.
Beds are 120 cm wide and bulging with covering material, with walk ways of 50-60 cm in between, covered with woody morsels. Beds seem unorganised, but there is method into this madness and so much variety that looking around here is never boring.
The place is teeming with insect life, rainy day or not... my camera isn't even special, nor did I look for insects, they simply were in view.
Don't cut your trees, just make vegetable beds around them, such as with this small walnut tree, standing in the middle of a vegetable patch. I was greatly inspired by this.
Berry shrubs have been planted in front of the vegetable patches, but here is a small fence which has berries nearby but which also helps snow peas climb.
The place is an oasis of calm, a garden of Eden worth visiting where there is lots to see, pick, and eat. The owners will say farewell to their little shop in September, but the garden stays put, as well as the educational courses. Do go there.
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