In The Home Front Billy Bragg sang:

"And from the TV an unwatched voice
Suggests the answer is to plant more trees"

- those words have rung in my ears for 20 years.

• International Tree Foundation


• Eden Foundation

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I would like to add a special section on Masanobu Fukuoka when I figure out how...

But until then, this post can hold the basics:

Overview of the Fukuoka Farming Method

One-straw Revolution

Natural Way of Farming

Natural planting

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Last week the JCB finally came as promised to "strip off the vegetation" of the plots where the road is going to go...

Someone told me a tragic story on Saturday evening - he described an elderly gentleman standing there waving his arms at the driver crying "Don't do this to me!" - everyone had had plenty of warning (and many of us had done as much in preparation as possible!) but he obviously hadn't expected to have his years of work stripped to bare earth in a matter of minutes - incl… Continue

Woo! just bought a house (with a large garden) so I can think about fruit trees again!

Here are some good links I found tonight on Wikipedia:

Clark in the Park - Pareto on Pruning

WP: Pruning Fruit Trees (Mainly Apples & Pears)

WP : Fruit Tree Forms

linked them straight through from delicious.