Of course, it’s obvious isn’t it, we need both! I’ve just returned from a 9 day Forest Garden Design Intensive with Dave Jacke… So much information to absorb, and such an eye opening and intensely...
We’re doing the Garage Sale Trail again this year, so come along and check out what we’ve got for sale. They’ll be some garage sale type items, but mostly we’re putting out as much...
Workshops were never going to be a big part of what we do, but sometimes the opportunity might come up to spread some knowledge and skills. Updated: The workshop on the 31st August was...
Apples – one of the easiest fruits to grow at home, and every house should have one! We’ve been able to gain access to a variety of Victorian grown and grafted heritage apple tree varieties...
Now you’d think that having been here for several years now, we’d have a thriving mature food forest, ready to be a showcase for local permaculture! And yet, this has been one area that...
Got a fig tree, and sick of birds devouring your figs just as they ripen? Check out this easy solution using old strawberry containers to protect them. Works especially great on small trees, as...
I was really hoping to start blogging with some positive stories, perhaps about our home fruit bottling early in Feb: Or perhaps some of the seed-saving we’ve done, with some great harvests of lettuce,...
Note: The following blog entry was written in 2009 (when I was working full-time), in a blog that went no-where… but it does describe the moment I went down the rabbit hole, so to...
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.
Read more about barter on our 'barter page'.
