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Your seasonal guide to vege gardening Includes recipes for home-grown produce, hints on natural pest control and a vegetable planting guide. Browse by starting at Spring. SpringDelicious, Home-Grown AsparagusAttract Insect-eating...
Winter Green Notes Growing Food for Poultry Building Healthy Soils Garden Calendar Sowing Guide Fruit Tree Pruning and Maintenance Winter Citrus Care Recipes For The Lemon and Lime Harvest Eating...
Summer Green Notes Extending the Harvest Summer Citrus Care Chillies Garden Calendar Long Hot Summer Day Organic Weed Strategies Houses Can Be Organic Too Choosing Fruit Trees Summer Planting Guide...
Spring Green Notes Delicious, Home-Grown Asparagus Attract Insect-Eating Birds Growing Delicious Tomatoes Net Profit: Exclude Fruit Bats and Birds Garlic Harvest Organic Strategies For Nematode Problems Sowing And Planting Guide...
Autumn Green Notes Plant Some Peas We've Got The Beet Improve the Pest Balance in Your Garden Using the Rosella Harvest Garden Calendar What to Sow Now Herbs in Permaculture...
Living Bread Often referred to as Essene bread, this sweet, highly nutritious, energy dense food is made with sprouted grain e.g. wheat, spelt, rye, barley. It is blended to a...
Bare soil is a bad idea, it is vulnerable to erosion. Weeds are nature's answer to protect the earth, so always try to get in first with mulch. No-one needs...
Helpful Herbs Helpful herbs can be added to the daily greens, used in the nest boxes or grown alongside the fence: Catnip - insect repellent, use in nest boxes Coriander - nutritious daily...
Feeding Your Chooks Chickens thrive on a varied diet that includes grain, forage greens and protein. Free-ranging chooks can get some of their protein from insects, slugs, snails, worms and...
SPROUTING GUIDE Sprouting is an easy way to add essential vitamins and enzymes to your diet. Other advantages to doing your own sprouting: It is simple and quick; only very...
VARIATIONS ON A SPROUTING THEME Microgreens or how to produce salad greens in the heat of summer - or when you only have a kitchen bench available and no garden....
Green Manure - An Introduction Sowing a Green ManureTiming Managing the Green Manure Biofumigation What is a Legume? Why Inoculate? Additional Benefits You can go directly to the green manure...
Poultry Feeder with Cover Reduce food spillage and vermin attraction with this dispenser for grain mix or grain and pellet mix. The feeder tray has divisions which physically reduces the...
Whereabouts Site your chook house with the following in mind: Good drainage Sheltered from weather extremes but well-lit and airy Close enough to the house for easy access Close to...
Helpful Herbs Helpful herbs can be added to the daily greens, used in the nest boxes or grown alongside the fence: Catnip - insect repellent, use in nest boxes ThymeCoriander...
Conventional modern agriculture is facing serious environmental problems, the impact of global warming, widespread erosion, salinity, acidification and contamination of soil and water by toxic residues. Food-raising systems that conserve...
Seed is an embryo, a tiny package carrying the whole future size, shape and smell of the plant within itself. Open-pollinated seed is a resource belonging to all people, not...
Healthy soils are a complex web of life, teeming with earthworms, beneficial fungi and bacteria. They smell good and are moist and crumbly. Roots are able to penetrate easily, deep...
There are a series of simple strategies that can be used to create relatively pest-free, beautiful gardens. These strategies will only work if your attitude to gardening includes a willingness...
Traditionally deciduous fruit trees such as pear, apple or peach were only pruned during winter. Early summer pruning has become common and has improved benefits for training young trees as...
This is a list of garden plants best avoided unless particular care is being taken to control their spread. The plants in the first list are not usually classified as...
Animals Young trees need to be protected from grazing animals such as rabbits, wallabies, kangaroos, hares, sheep, cattle and horses. The nipping-off of the top growth on a young tree...
Rosella Jam To prepare the fruit for jam making first soak it for a few minutes in a sink full of cold water and then drain. Then separate the red...
Chickens thrive on a varied diet that includes grain, forage greens and protein. Free-ranging chooks can get some of their protein from insects, slugs, snails, worms and grubs. Poultry that...