How to create a bee-friendly garden.
Bees are essential to life, to food, to gardens, but bees are in real crisis. Every garden, even…
7 Good Reasons to Eat Basil Seed
The seeds grown in your garden offer so much food, nutrition and medicine, yet the extent of their…
Feel good: Fight Colds: Reduce Headaches: Build your Immune System – Grow Lemongrass
Lemongrass is a superb multifunctional plant that I find essential in my subtropical permaculture garden. It adds great…
Temporary permaculture for renters – 11 ideas for growing abundant food without owning land
How do you get thriving permaculture garden while you’re renting? There are particular challenges, but there’s also a…
16 Mighty Homegrown Teas: The Healing Powers of Your Edible Garden
My food garden is also my medicine chest. The fresh healthy foods eating straight from the garden bring so…
Library gardening: Community Permaculture Education
I garden in libraries – with children – with adults. It’s an unusual place, and obviously a temporary…
Garden teas – celebrate your garden with healthy homemade herbal teas for all ages.
We love our simple garden tea parties. We pick a selection of flowers, leaves, roots, fruits and shoots…
Planting our new season lunches – creating garden niches amongst abundant permaculture perennials
The abundance of subtropical permaculture gardens is so clearly evident at this time of year. I am now…
Home grown bananas – making good use of the surplus
We’ve just grown some bananas for the first time in our permaculture garden here and they are absolutely…
Extending an abundant herb harvest – how to make frozen herb cubes
Frozen herb cubes are an easy way to extend the harvest of herbs. There are certain times of…