Keyhole gardening, push/pull control of pests and growing amaranthus

Some take away ideas for gardeners from the Oxford Real Farming Conference and some questions about roses

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This week I finish my round up of topics that grabbed my attention at the Oxford Real Farming Conference.

Tomorrow’s Climate

Last week I focussed on Perrine Bulgheroni’s talk in this session. This week, I cover the remaining two speakers: Rafael Pflücker and Meshark Sikuku.

Rafael Pflücker is a professor of ecological agriculture at the Universidad Científica del Sur in Peru. He spoke about his work with Agronegocios La Grama overseeing the implementation of a regenerative agroforestry model on a ginger farm and how that has enabled the farm, now organic, to become climate-resilient. Originally the ginger was grown as a monocrop. The plant grows for two years before the roots are large enough to be harvested, but this necessitates digging up …