After the last post, and such a dry summer – the recent rains are a godsend. Well over 50mm in May already. As a result, things are greening up, and seedlings are coming up everywhere in the food forest… and I’ve got a few million more than I can cope with!
Apparently; southern Australia is in a “Neutral El Niño” faze, but we are on El Niño watch, meaning there is a 50% chance of one developing during our Autumn / Winter…. which means even...
Coming up on this weekend (Sunday 14th October) is Sustainable House Day, and we’re opening our Garden to this event for the first time since 2011. Back then, we were involved in the day...
A quick bit of self promo, letting our friends and customers know that we’ve been featured in a couple of publications recently, and that we’re super stoked to have received some recognition of the...
It’s been a little while since the previous post. I think perhaps my creative energies are being ‘used up’ somewhat in being the editor of the Geelong Organic Gardener’s newsletter (which also comes out...
Our rocket stove / pizza oven combo has taken a while – over 3 years of just sitting there. It’s an old washing ‘copper boiler’, the thing your great grandmother might have used, and...
2 Years ago, we participated in a very successful day for the national Garage Sale Trail day. We’ve decided to do it again this year, and it’s now over the whole weekend. SAT 21st...
Have had an extremely busy 12 months, and decided (plus encouraged) to take it a bit easier in the 2nd half of this year. Will still be growing heaps of veg, but probably a...
Just finished watching this short series on the ABC – and it’s great that it has received a bit of attention in the media, social media and general conversation. At first, I wasn’t so...
It’s been ages since we’d been down to Tassie, and honestly, it sounded like a good idea when we booked the boat in October! Anyway, despite the stress of harvesting post xmas produce, packing,...
Thought I’d provide an update on some happenings in our Permaculture Garden by showing some images (All taken during the month of November). I hope your garden is flourishing, and I guess we can...
We're often happy to barter our produce & services for some combination of the items below, by arrangement.
Excess quality produce and fruit from fruit trees (Apples, Lemons, stone fruit, grapefruit etc) are almost always welcome.
- Plastic pots & seedling trays
- Straw / Lucerne / Peastraw
- Relishes & Preserves
- Tomatoes (we never seem to grow enough!)
- Seeds, if we can use them
- Home-baked bread
- Fruits eg Passion-fruit, kiwi.
- Items for the compost: Kitchen scraps, shredded paper, sawdust, coffee grounds.
- Much more... make a suggestion
It's fairly easy to approximate value: A large bag of coffee grounds for a couple of bunches of herbs, a bag of apples for a potted plant or some seedlings, etc.
