4 steps to a whole new fruit tree with the bud-grafting technique
Bud-grafting is a type of grafting done in summer that is easy to learn, highly effective, and lots of fun.
Wild Boars in Vietnam
Everywhere we go as we travel through Vietnam (where we’re currently taking a short break) we’re constantly looking at the landscape through farmers’ eyes as we try to make sense of the farming systems we’re observing. It’s...
Organic farming across borders
We’re delighted to bring you a guest blog from Norma Tauiliili, who spent a week with us as a WWOOFer (Willing Worker on Organic Farms) back in 2017. She was a WWOOFer with a difference! Norma works for an organisation called Women in Business Development Inc (Samoa)...How to Grow Fruit The Organic Way…part three
We love telling the story about how we became organic, so here’s part three. (Click here if you want to have a look at part one or part two of this series. We also told you about the organic certification process here.) Learning how to grow fruit organically...
How to become an organic farmer…part one
The day we received this certificate was a very exciting day! It was the end of a long process. It officially started in early 2007 when we applied to NASAA for organic certification, but in fact, had begun several years earlier. But we’re starting at the...