Sally Hughes

Wild Design From master planning to mysterious processing. Letting things grow from context.

Latest gossip from the Sacred Tree Garden…

Growing relationship with wild kin Principles, Pollution, Rabbits

Here’s to nurturing all life, uncovering the hidden impacts and costs of our choices and embodying principles to guide right action and grow relationship with our wild kin!

Come and learn with me! smallthings.org.uk/introduction...
#permaculturedesign #permaculture #artistdevelopment

Food for Thought Talks - Food Museum The Food Museum and EA Sustain present a special series of talks in conjunction with our ‘Forty Farms’ exhibition, discussing the sustainability of our food industry with experts, writers, photographe...

Some great looking events at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social - I'm particularly interested in next month's with Hodmedods' Josiah Meldrum in conversation with Carolyn Steel foodmuseum.org.uk/events/food-... #FoodStudies

Dan’s episodes with Carol. I’ll likely listen again now to see distance travelled: makingpermaculturestronger.net/category/car...

There’s a joy, & a sadness listening to two beautiful souls who have passed back into the energy cycle that creates more life. What a gift they have left in their wake.

Sometimes, I happen upon a podcast that changes the course of my thinking, doing and being entirely. Last time was a couple of years ago when I heard Dan Palmer talking to Carol Sandford.

Today, this 💚

Poppy Okotcha 👍

Gardening for people and nature with Claire Ratinon | Part 1 YouTube video by Butterfly Conservation

And yes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=APq_...

Oooh yes! Definitely! Thanks @mudandculture.bsky.social

Morag Gamble

Yes! I read her thesis a little while ago. I made a synthesis of the principles she found were common to the cultures she studied for Liz’s @mudandculture.bsky.social zine….Writing about it in my next Substack 👍

Liz Zhorab, Byther Farm

To add to the list:
Peni Ediker, Swynycoed
Mandy Barber, Incredible Vegetables

Who else?

I’ve been thinking of forming a local ‘women growers collective’ & wondering which women are pushing the bounds of ecological growing, permaculture & wilding & developing theories/practice I could be informed by…

So far I’ve got Rebecca Hosking, Sarah Price & Isabella Tree on my list - who else? 🤔

🚜🔥Is a #fossilfree food system possible?

Live from #ORFC25 our bonus #FueltoFork podcast episode with a farmer, economist & biodiversity expert on this transition.

⚡Plug in new tech or rethink the system?
🌍Who wins & who loses?

🎙️ Listen to the heated discussion & Q&A fueltofork.com/episode9

Oooh good thinking! Thank you 🙏

Approaching Soil Compaction Regenerating rich soil ecology

I've written about how I'm intending to approach the hardpan of clay and soil compaction on my allotment. Read it via my latest Substack...

Road closed with cones & signs. Cars are still parked illegally up to the closure

View from opposite direction, showing access to the park from the school severed by the road

Great to see a new zebra crossing being installed outside Albert Primary. Hopefully a first step towards a #SchoolStreet to allow easy access directly to Belle Vue park

There is really no need for through-traffic on this road, as the closure demonstrates

I did find some signs of life;
Worms in the woodchip path that had broken down
Robins, so many
A caterpillar
A grub of some sort
A centipede

All is not lost!

With some tender care, soil life will return!

I’ve also removed the plastic sheeting the previous tenant had put all over the main growing area.

I thought a strategy for beginning to deal with the compaction might be to let the weeds grow. At least I’ll have a living root system then.

Second day fully working on developing my new allotment space, Robin was around, enjoying the worms I brought up with my disturbance.

Lots of work removing all the plastic today. So much plastic!

Plastic free paths now!

"Everybody talks about the weather, but..." yadda, yadda.
Let's get serious.
#Permaculture Magazine is not on BSky, yet. Someone in the UK, give 'em a nudge.