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The health of the soil

6/3/2016

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​We know that the vitality of our food has a big impact on our health, but could this vitality increase if we interfered less with the soil? 
Shumei Natural Agriculture Farm, Wiltshire
However loudly we voice our respect for Nature’s intelligence, when it comes to growing food, whether on a commercial or an amateur basis, we’re reluctant to rely on it. Instead we act as if the soil had little life of its own. The worldwide and slowly expanding network of Shumei Natural Agriculture farmers believe that it is time to let Nature show us the way. The simplicity of their methods may challenge our deeply entrenched ideas but their results are impressive. Perhaps trusting in the power of the soil could be of greater help to us than we imagine?


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Permaculture Garden at Tapely Park

6/3/2016

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​​Pru Phillips works as a volunteer at North Devon Hospice and in the permaculture garden at Tapely Park, Instow, North Devon. Tapely Park is a private country estate owned by Hector Christie. It describes itself as a 'sustainable stately home in the making'. Hector Christie has a strong commitment to conservation, environmental and sustainabilty causes.

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Take Two Hours of Pine Forest

2/3/2016

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Four years since it was published in Outside Magazine, Florence Williams' article, Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and call me in the morning continues to be an excellent introduction to the idea that spending time in Nature is something we all need.
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    ​There are many different kinds of gardens and landscapes that facilitate health and wellbeing. The network embraces all projects and examples ranging from hospices, hospitals, care homes, clinics, prisons, community gardens, cancer centres as well as nature based therapeutic work such as Ecopsychology and horticulture therapy. Landscape is taken in its broadest sense, embracing the natural and designed environment, highlighting its many relationships to human health and wellbeing.

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