“Serious question: Does this person actually have training or education in anything apart from permaculture modules?” Luke Roberts A fair enough question that was asked on my facebook page. One that was sometimes thrown at me in the past with derogatory undertones –...

Makrut lime (Citrus hystrix), is native to range of places across Southeast Asia and southern China and is commonly known as kaffir lime across the world. However in recent decades there is an ongoing shift back to using one of its traditional names instead (the Thai...

We've just wrapped up our 7th Home Harvest edible garden trail. Supported by the City of Hobart, it's always a brilliant day with hundreds of highlight excited and pumped gardeners hitting up some of the best edible garden in and around Nipaluna/Hobart. Sometimes I...

It’s that time of the year where we’re putting the call out for our next batch of garden hosts to feature in our 7th Home Harvest Edible Garden Trail!! That’s right, it’s been seven years of garden glory. Enormous thanks to the City of Hobart for their...

Working as a presenter with ABC TV's Gardening Australia is one of the great joys of my life - I often pinch myself just to make sure it's real! Without a doubt, my favourite thing is meeting gardeners and their gardens and getting to know both while we're filming at...

I've been a fan of composting toilets for decades now. There's just something about NOT shitting in drinking water and making quality composting for my landscape with my own humanure that just makes me feel really good and really smart. I've also long been into making...

The term 'Time Rebel' was coined by Australian-born social philosopher, Roman Krznaric and is someone who works towards intergenerational justice. Meaning every decision they make today considers how it'll impact future generations - hundreds of years from...

This is the 6th year in the row of the Home Harvest edible garden trail and it shows. The conversation around urban food production and food security has more traction and is more normalised more than ever. It wasn't too many years ago when people would look at me...

Living in a city with around 250,000 people, you don't necessarily think you're going to be existing alongside a population of platypus in numerous creek lines that run in and around the city. But here in Nipaluna/Hobart, that's exactly the case. Over the years I've...

It's that time of the year we're we're putting the call out for our next batch of garden hosts to feature in our 6th Home Harvest Edible Garden Trail!! That's right, it's been six years of garden glory. Enormous thanks to the City of Hobart for their ongoing support -...