May
10
2009
A Fukuoka Inspired Permaculture Garden
Posted by greenthumb in Gardening Videos, tags: Emilia, Fukuoka, Hazelip, Masanobu, permaculture
Emilia Hazelip (1938 – February 1, 2003) was an organic Permaculture gardener who was born in Spain and began gardening seriously in the late ’60s. A former Merry Prankster and pioneer of the concept of synergistic gardening, her farming methods were inspired by the work of Masanobu Fukuoka. Where Fukuoka focused most of his attention on orchards and the rice/barley crop rotation, Emilia Hazelip focused on creating and maintaining market gardens of vegetables and herbs. Emilia Hazelip, who …
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love this stuff
Where I am the beds would be no good as it would be back breaking work to make those mounds out of the heavy, compacted clay.
I am layering with cardboard, grass clipping, manure then mulch. I plant straight into this. Maybe in a few years the soil can be lifted to make mounds. I am planting daikons into everything as mentioned by Fukuoka.
this is awesome……..i wish there was more videos like this
and I also put a pond in the middle. Now I have hedgehogs and frogs on slug duty – and it has been so dry here in early June, the mulch has meant I have not needed to water at all. Great!
Fantastic video. I watched Sepp Holzer’s dvd about his raised beds in Austria – very similar to these – and wondered how he did it. This is a great ‘how to’ guide. I am trying these beds out here in Wales, and am getting great results in the first year. Even the predicted slug problem is not too bad – I have laid the border hedge and left big stacks of habitat piles
Esto parece increible. Una pregunta: es este método adaptable a todas las superficies? Hay un minimo? Gracias
i love her bed concept