Costa and I have a great rave as we walkabout through this amazing downtown food forest. We talk about urban food growing, permaculture, local food and other things that inspire. My 11yo daughter, and permaculture apprentice, did a great job filming us. I hope you enjoy this 18:48 minute film.
The food forest is located at the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne – home of the Masters of Food Systems and Gastronomy and venue for the 2018 Urban Agriculture Forum.
Earlier this week I posted a link to Costa’s Facebook live interview at the Urban Agriculture Conference.
This food forest is also called a raingarden. A raingarden is a self-watering, low-maintenance garden designed to protect our waterways. They collect stormwater that runs off hard surfaces when it rains. Check out Melbourne Water’s useful introductory resource for this.
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My 6 week course, The Incredible Edible Garden Course includes an entire module about creating food forests. Registration is now open.
Oh my goodness, I enjoyed this video so very much. I live in the midwest of the U.S. and this makes me want to visit Australia to meet you and Costa. I thoroughly enjoy and treasure each and every video and piece of information you so generously share, Morag. And to see your daughter walking in your footsteps is encouraging for the future of our youth. So many like you are standing up and taking into their own hands the power of growing their own food. I am delighted to no end!
Thank you for all you do
Thank you so much Pam for writing. It is so lovely to hear from you. I certainly had a great time filming this with Costa and my daughter.