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Commenced:
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01/05/2011 |
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Submitted:
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28/02/2011 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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P.O. Box 785, Robertson, Western Cape, ZA |
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Website:
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Long-Valley-Permaculture/307592172592855 |
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Climate zone:
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Mediterranean |
Collective Farming Initiative. The project and quest started in 2009 with the ideas and dreams of manifesting: A self-sustaining community farm that provides energy and food security into the future. It’s own pure water source year round. Neither commercially farmed nor surrounded by commercial farms whose use of chemical may affect us. A place for learning, studying, (self-) actualizing and community that pledges itself to share technology and ‘how to’s’ with the community at large. A retreat centre for yoga, sustainability practices (building houses, wind energy, solar energy, waterless toilets, etc.), able to cater for groups of 25 people or more or less as well as space for single retreats.
Farm is 93 hectares of hills and valleys, 7 hectares of which is arable and a futher 10ha marginal terraces, with an eastern aspect under irrigation from gravity feed and sub-surface sources.
The farm has a 3 bed, 3 bath house and a dilapidated but beautifully positioned cottage.
Plans are being submitted for an additional 08 staff/community cottages and support intrastate for planning permission.
The farm had approximately 20 fruit trees, mainly figs and lemons at the start of the project in 2010. Currently a Zone 2 Intensive Food Forest system has been implemented with more then 70 additional fruit and nuts trees and a 100 pioneers tree windbreak system. Included is are broadscale staple and small animals systems.
Future plans include an extensive food forest in 2011/12, development of a Keyline Farming systems, utilizing Holistic Management guidelines in creation of a mixed Alley Cropping and Pasture Cropping Permaculture.
A healthy slice of pasture raised chooks after grass-fed
dairy/beef with integration of draft horses, woodland porkers, aquaculture and
apiculture in broad-scale re-forested systems adjoining
TRAINING
LVF looks forward to offering more in the future, but implementations take president at this stage. BRB
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Zone 3 Alley cropping Expansion 2012
We are based in a brittle environment, winter rainfall, Mediterranean arid climate bordering the Klein Karro in southern Africa.