Creating beautiful and productive landscapes with multi-purpose planting.
No spray, no heavy machinery. Lots of blackberry. Blackberry. It’s fast growing, thorny and invasive. A giant nuisance. And seemingly impossible to get rid of without severe chemical or mechanical intervention. But we are going to try. This is the introduction to how we are attempting blackberry removal without spraying and without the use of […]
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Annual Crops vs Perennial Crops: Understanding the Differences When it comes to farming, there are two main types of crops: annual and perennial. When we talk about annual crops, we refer to plants that complete their life cycle within a single growing season. This means that they are planted, grown, mature, and produce seeds or
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Six ways to get free plants When we purchased our site in 2017 we already knew that we wanted to cover it in trees. We also knew that buying enough trees to cover our 2.4ha site through retail channels would add up to a figure that would throw all but the biggest budgets out the
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Food forests as a horticultural idea stem from watching and mirroring the way plants grow in their natural or ‘wild’ environment. Long before humans started farming various crops, they were gathering them from the environment around them. The food grew with little to no input from the humans who harvested it. Indigenous people around the
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What is Permaculture? Here at Fresh Perceptions we run a Permaculture based Nursery, but what does that mean? What is Permaculture for a start and how does that change how we run the Nursery? Permaculture as an idea was developed in Australia in the 1970’s by Environmental Psychology lecturer Bill Mollison and graduate student of
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