Three Sisters Method

Corn, beans and squash all growing in perfect intercropping harmony.

How To Make Biochar

Making and using biochar in the garden has loads of benefits like creating a healthy soil ecosystem

Make a Hugelkultur Bed

Hugelkultur is a centuries old practice used in permaculture that essentially creates a living compost pile in your growing bed.

Organic Bird Proofing

How to create a natural bird proofing frame using tree clippings from the garden. Vicky shows us a natural way to protect your baby plants and seeds from hungry birds.

Winnowing - how to clean seeds before storing

Separating the wheat from the chaff. Winnowing is an ancient technique that we still use today to prepare our seeds for the Seed Saving Network.

Permaculture, polyculture and intercropping

Here's Vicky with a little bit about how we do things in the OmVed kitchen garden.

Through the Keyhole

How to make a keyhole permaculture vegetable bed using only kitchen by-products and basic garden tools.

The Compost Connection

Realising that their way of life was affecting both the planet and their own physical and mental health led Amandine, Benoit and their friends to change their lifestyle.

The Gut Soil Connection

From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.

Biodynamic by Nature

André Tranquilini is the estate manager at Waltham Place, a 220 acre organic and biodynamic farm and garden in Berkshire, UK. Originally from Brazil, he has worked extensively as a market gardener and outdoor teacher, and is a founding member of the biodynamic seed company, Living Seeds, in Portugal.

Dispersal

Seeds come in as many different shapes, sizes and designs as the plants they are to become. They float, they fly, they stick and they burst. A photographic exploration of the structures and dispersal of seeds.

Interview with Vicky Chown

Vicky Chown is a medical herbalist, forager and gardener. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing at OmVed Gardens - where she also co-organises the Seed Saving Network - a biodiverse community of seed savers in London and across the UK.