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As plans for a redesigned veggie patch take hold, I've realised I'll need to start a new herb garden. The existing one, in what was ...

Capeweed colonises poor and disturbed ground, so it hardly needs saying, it flourishes here. Unfortunately, efforts to improve soil and wat...

Cape tulips - priority 'regionally controlled' weeds in this area - appear to have no particular use or benefits. So after ripping o...

Homework for September permaculture class: present info on 'dynamic accumulators'.

Rain, rain and more rain. Fryers Creek is flowing. Lake Johanna in the Botanic Gardens has filled, an expanse of water linking it with the o...

Sunday saw a community gathering for a working bee at the old school, to launch the revival efforts to turn it into a community hub. Chris s...

Lay awake listening to a night of heavy rain and mulling over a big day ahead, and woke to a drizzly morning and an early start to the day. ...

Been busy looking into weeds as part of a Cert III competency 'Using Weedy Plants in a Permaculture System'. A bit disappointing to ...

Our block includes a few introduced gums, presumably planted as ornamentals. These have flowered through much of winter, and are a joy to h...

For a notoriously unhousewifely person, I’ll admit to one unmitigated housework pleasure – drying laundry on a good old-fashioned clothes h...

Despite best efforts to record and document garden developments this year, I’m rather glad some things have escaped me. Let's call them...

Mushrooms are growing all over the grove and lower area of the property. Why so heavy here, I’m not sure. But they’ve sprung up throughout, ...

Successfully dried and lightly toasted pumpkin seeds following the method discovered a couple of months ago. So simple, I'm kicking myse...

Does a beautiful tool do a better job? And is it completely irrational to invest emotion in the tools we use?

Pictured in its winter plumage is the most valuable animal in the permaculture system: the spouse. This particular spouse variety (Fryerstow...