Here in Southern Dalarna, we have had the worst hazel year long. Not even in the great old stocks, there were more than a handful of nuts to find. And so we go to Medelpad and find hundreds of hazel bushes, Most dotted with nuts. How can it be that? Of course, it does already mentioned microclimate large […]
In the last post was found that air movement is an important factor that affect the microclimate in the forest garden and that now we will investigate Air mixing a little closer. In many ways it is desirable to have so still air as possible. A small gust of wind can blow away the warm air and destroy the effect of both reflective surfaces and […]
Both the supra-regional and regional climate, we need to relate to when we design our forest gardens. Still, microclimate differ much from the general conditions. Through active observation, we can learn much about the local microclimate. The knowledge we thus get up can help us create site-specific solutions, beware […]
Working with the microclimate, ie. climate on a scale from a few inches to one hectare, belongs to one of the more important tasks in the creation of a forest garden. We have great potential to influence climate on the scale, but how much our effort, so determined the basic conditions of the microclimate in large part by the regional and […]
There are some techniques that are strongly associated with Permaculture. Swales, as the Swedish possibly called for severing ditches, is one of these. One of Europe's most renowned permakulturlärare and writers, Patrick Whitefield, recently published a post on his blog, in which he argued that swales are overestimated in a climate that Britain. His point was […]
