Downtown food forest walkabout with Morag and Costa from ABC Gardening Australia
Costa and I have a great rave as we walkabout through this amazing downtown food forest. We talk…
Chatting with Costa about Urban Agriculture
With already more than half the world’s population living in cities, the conversation around urban agriculture needs to…
Come to my Introduction to Permaculture weekend workshop at Northey Street City Farm
My Introduction to Permaculture is a wonderful weekend immersion in permaculture. We are going to cover so much…
Eat and Drink Young Mango Leaves
Young mango leaves are a highly valued source of food and natural medicine in many parts of the…
5 Easy Ways to Propagate Edible Perennial Plants
I recently made this 10-minute film showing 5 easy ways to propagate edible perennial plants. This is a…
Seven year beans: grow perennial protein
We call Madagascar beans (Phaseolus lunatus) our magic beans. They: are fast growing live for 7 years are hardy…
Pumpkin Greens: Harvest a Leafy Abundance
Pumpkins are so much more than the orange flesh, as delicious as that is. I actually use pumpkin…
40 things I call spinach greens …
Spinach is a very loose term around here. Anything green that can be tossed into soups, stir-fries, stews,…
My defeated silverbeet tells me it’s time to focus on the summer greens. Read your garden.
I looked out this morning and saw my silverbeet wilted, defeated. It’s not a lack of water… it’s…
Yum plum pine
The Plum Pine (Podocarpus elatus) has such an interesting odd-looking fruit but sweet like a grape. It’s also…