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A collection of videos to explore our garden and life. This video is a winter property tour so you can get a sense of where we are and what we’re doing. There’s still so much to do on our property – but it’s already punching above its weight, providing us (and our loved ones) with food […]
Some exciting news! I wrote a book, it’s arriving in bookstores on August 31st and is now available for pre-order here. The Good Life: How To Grow A Better World is all about how to live a good life in the face of the climate emergency. From growing your own food to composting, building a […]
Earlier this year we partnered with the City of Hobart our local Council, Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to run our second Home Harvest edible garden tour around Hobart. Thirteen gardens opened their gates and welcomed in over a 1000 people across the day (in a covid safe way) to look, learn and […]
When you have chooks, you have lots of eggshells which can become super annoying in the compost bin or worm farm as they JUST SIT THERE FOREVER. Like I said, super annoying. They’re also a rad source of slow release calcium which is beneficial for your compost systems, soil and chickens if you can feed […]
As our property is so steep, integrating animals into our food gardens hasn’t been able to happen as much as the permaculture text books imply it should. For example if I put our chickens into our orchard, they’d scratch all the mulch and top soil down to the bottom of the hill – and I […]
We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our second annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the Hobart municipality! Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative. Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on Saturday March 6th, 2021 in […]
Over the many years of keeping chickens we’ve tried lots of systems and techniques for housing, feeding and managing them. For week 8 of our Crisis Gardening series we made a video about some of the current systems that make it work really well. You can watch it here, or just keep reading :-). The […]
We’re living in deeply uncertain times with covid-19 ripping through our world – everything is changing dramatically and quickly *for everyone*. When in crisis we need to look for the opportunities – stuff that can hold us up and stuff that we can control to bring us the goodness and resilience we need. Growing some […]
For almost 8 years we’ve propagated most of our annual plants (and some perennials) between our sunny dining room table and random patches of grass around the garden. Often the plants I germinate in the pots left in the garden are forgotten about and I unintentionally kill them cause they’re hiding behind the giant corn […]