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Polyculture Market Garden Study

The Polyculture Market Garden Study is one of the programs currently running at Balkan Ecology Project and is a multiyear study of a 0.5 acre (2000 m2) market garden growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nuts in polycultures. The project’s mission is to develop and promote practices that provide nutritious affordable food whilst enhancing biodiversity. The study aims to look at the productivity of a polyculture market garden, recording levels of biodiversity in the garden and looking at set up and running costs (in terms of finances and time) and outputs in terms of produce and income. This document will focus on the annual vegetable production within the market garden and the agroecological system used for this component, which has been designed to be replicated easily.

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Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Year: 2016
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Country/ies: Bulgaria
Geographical coverage: Europe and Central Asia
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl322e.pdf
Content language: English
Topic: Sophie Roberts
Type: Case study

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