Project Tag: raised beds
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Agriculture
Agriculture A major goal of New Alchemy’s research was to explore ways to produce food— local, healthy, and sufficient food— using sustainable methods that do not rely on fossil fuel and avoid chemical toxins. Inspiration and information was taken from observation of nature, learning how pre-industrial societies sustained themselves, and applying new scientific knowledge. The…
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Gardening
Gardening Raised bed agriculture was developed in Asia from the collective experience of several hundred generations of farmers. They found it to be the most efficient garden method for sustained, high productivity on the household and community level, with little or no machinery. Raised bed agriculture is energetically efficient and more productive per area than…
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Chinese Permaculture
There are large regions in China where farmers have grown food on the same land for more than 6,000 years. Over that time, several hundred generations of farmers developed a highly efficient, highly productive, sustainable agricultural methods, passed on by common custom and recorded using written language. Although traditional Chinese agriculture is perhaps the most…
The Green Center 