Before you buy fruit trees, make a super useful harvest calendar for a clear overview of the fruiting year. A big help in choosing varieties that stagger the harvest and spread workload. Before we map it out – lets double check you’re ready to go. Tick off the following steps and set yourself on the […]
Step by Step to Kickass Shelter
By | LastUpdated September 1, 2021
Shelter lays the foundation for a thriving food garden. What a difference to productivity when our crops are nicely tucked away! Today, I’m going to set you on the road to a handsome as, targetted and super low-maintenance shelter that once established, needs no pruning/ trimming/ fussing over. Kickass, don’t you agree? You only need […]
Make a Basemap + Wishlist
By | LastUpdated September 2, 2025
Understanding your land and your climate first is key to you making sound placement choices. “…protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labour” Bill Mollison (co founder of permaculture) wisely advises. Start by making a basemap – a birds eye view sketch or photo of your land. Use this to record essential info […]
Smart Edge Design Saves You Work!
By | LastUpdated November 1, 2023
This would be an easy post to skip past – the edge? what edge?! And yet its one of those foundational concepts that if you adopt, can save you loads of work and increase the fertility and life in your soils by miles. Planting up the outside edge of your vegie patch brings benefits galore, […]
