Morag’s 7 ‘do-nothing’ strategies for managing pests
I have a ‘do-nothing’ approach to managing pests in my garden. Don’t be mistaken, this is not an…
Do You Eat Your Broad Bean Greens?
Bountiful broad beans (Vicia faba). These big beans are a meal in themselves – fresh or dried they…
Do you know how to read (and avoid) sticky labels on fresh fruit?
Little sticky fruit labels – you see them everywhere – on tables, floors, at the beach, stuck to…
Simply beautiful edibles – a gardener’s meditation
This Saturday I am running a school holiday workshop with children to create with patterns in nature –…
I have lots of compost systems, but this is the fastest!
I am continuously amazed at how wonderful azolla is – this floating fern. Azolla pinnata is the native…
Food For Free: 7 Ways to Use Mustard Spinach
Is there a plant that comes every year into your garden self-seeding that brings a lot of abundance?…
My favourite compost plant
There are so many amazing benefits of Azolla for food, fibre, fuel, fodder, mulch, fertiliser, carbon drawdown and…
The Edible Beauty Garden
I recently wrote saying I don’t buy beauty products or make-up, but of course I still like to…
How Worm Towers Work
If you’ve wondered about worm towers, and whether they’d actually work, take a look at this short little…
12 ways to use your grapefruit abundance
The grapefruit tree (Citrus × paradisi) in my permaculture food forest is laden. I love to eat the fruit…