This Orchard Doesn't Look Like an Orchard (and it's full of Trios!)
🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24
Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.
Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.
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Permaculture Orchard
We chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms.
We talk about:
We chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms.
We talk about:
- Why he prefers a permculture planting to a monoculture organic apple orchard
- How can an orchard be a permaculture?
- The system of “trios” he uses as a basic design unit
- Minimizing external inputs
- Using sheep in an orchard
- Timelines for establishing a permaculture orchard
- Using fruiting shrubs under trees
- Planting perennial flowers, herbs, and vegetables underneath fruiting shrubs
When it comes to the idea of permaculture, Sobkowiak says, “It’s just applied common sense.”
