Library gardening: Community Permaculture Education
I garden in libraries – with children – with adults. It’s an unusual place, and obviously a temporary…
Easily Grow Vitamin C and Add Vivid Colour to Your Garden with Rosella
For vivid colour, intense flavour and health benefits, plant Rosellas in the garden. The striking colour of the red flower calyx (the…
Muddy hands, happy hearts: seedballs for healthy soils and diversity
There’s really nothing like getting your hands in the earth. I love the feel and smell of rich…
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…
Abundance in the garden – simply growing more food than you can possibly eat by yourself.
Simply by growing our understanding about what is edible and good food, we can see so much more…
The busy person’s ideal leafy green vegetable: upland and lowland Kang Kong
Kong Kong is the perfect plant for the busy person – ideal for small backyards and container gardening.…
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…
Beautiful bountiful banana abundance
Beautiful bountiful bananas harvested today – totally spray free and grown in compost fed soils. A small but…
Morag’s ‘do-nothing’ approach to pest management – a peaceful way of gardening.
I have a ‘do-nothing’ approach to managing pests in my garden. It’s not an idle or lazy approach,…
Hardy summer plants
Since the start of January we have been away from our garden – at the Woodford Festival and…