La Ferme Biologique du Bec Hellouin is a productive organic market garden that provides a wide range of fresh and nutritious fruit and vegetables while providing wildlife habitat and sequestering carbon.
Permaculture magazine editor, Maddy Harland, interviews co-founder of the farm, Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, at the Oxford Real Farming Conference. She asks her how they achieve such healthy yields whilst maintaining such a tapestry of rich natural habitats.
Find out about the organic techniques they use on their 20 hectare farm as well as the biointensively managed 1 hectare market garden. All of these elements are framed by the organising principles and ethics permaculture design.
Recent scientific studies revealed high productivity, strong economic yields, and biodiversity plus the capacity to sequester carbon in the soil. This is a win-win result and the Holy Grail of farming in the 21st century. Perrine also shares her thoughts on extending these techniques to larger scale farms.
Perrine is the co-author of Living With The Earth: Volume 1 – Permaculture, Ecoculture: Inspired by Nature and Living with the Earth: Volume 2 – Food Crops and Forest Gardens.
Learn more from Charles and Perrine’s farm: From vegetable garden to microfarm
Living With The Earth: Volume 2 – Food Crops and Forest Gardens
by Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
The Permaculture Magazine team have been publishing books and magazines since 1992.
Their YouTube channel www.youtube.com/PermacultureMagazine shares a range of videos from no dig organic gardening and food forests, to regenerative farming and keeping bees.