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My awesome chook set-up plus how to look after your chooks through the year and keep them healthy and happy - naturally of course!

Healthy citrus without artificial fert, plus pruning and year round care.

Homemade compost + vermicasts (the by product of worm farms), are your one and only best ever fert. Ditch the artificial fertilisers and the plastic bags... you wont look back, and its easier than you think!

My simple method is perfect to kick start your garden journey.

Design just means choosing where to put stuff - the shed, the chook house, the lemon, the veggies ... So many benefits when we take the time to consider layout! Improve soil passively by organising fertile spaces together, grow a thriving garden by planting everything into its happy place... a little design makes your life a lot easier.

A mighty collection covering how to plant and grow and prune, year round care - all in all sidestepping pests and disease (and what to do when you don't).

Green crops aka green manure aka living mulches are super fertile!

If you are lucky enough to have a greenhouse, here's my month by month collection to support you to create naturally healthy, beautiful greenhouse spaces.

Pick your crops at their peak ripeness and then there's storage - just about the trickiest part of all this food growing!

A few of my fav recipes for the kitchen, medicine cabinet and the garden: tinctures, tisanes and fermented brews.

Links to all my favourite seed savers, nurseries, tools, books, birdnet, Neem .…

Liquid feed is easy to make, and is the perfect short term tonic, complementing long term loveliness of compost, vermicasts and living mulch.

Plant, and sow a few things each month and never go hungry. Little bits of care each month, keep our gardens thriving.

Plants make the best mulch aka living mulch, but there are times for good old mulchy mulch too!

Preventing pests + disease only takes an ounce - and even better, the very same things that prevent pests are the things that have your garden be naturally healthy and strong.

My regular 15min slot on Coast Access, my back catalogue with Kim Hill plus a few other gems.

Pruning is more of a do-ey thing, but here's a collection of 15 posts to cover the basics off, plus a dive into a few specific trees + berries.

Raising really good seedlings is all about taking care of the basics well. Growing your own is such a thrill, and if you save your own seed - truly resilient.

Get to know your soil! At the start, and then every time something goes wrong with a plant/ tree - make it your first check-in (before you google!).

Lay a good foundation - drainage/ compaction/ shelter/ sun. Then, keep it simple! Do very little hard landscaping so you can adapt later when you want to change your layout ... cause chances are you will!

How to grow everything from broccoli to beetroot to tomatoes - naturally.

What a difference to garden health when we water properly!

Spray free, war free ... my winning ways with weeds.