Good Life Permaculture Blog
This is where we share stories about gardening, goats, climate action and hints and tricks to help everyone live the good life! Search our extensive archive, use the categories below or simply have a relaxing browse with a cuppa…
Cold Frame Gardening
Recently, we built a much anticipated, beautiful bit of infrastructure for our garden – a cold frame. This is a welcome addition to any cool temperate garden, where we’re all constantly working on creating warm microclimates to extend our season to get tomatoes earlier and longer, reliable eggplants and abundant basil. Cold frames can be […]
A home for chooks
Building a new chook house? That’s what we wanted to do. Apart from being beautiful and joyful to behold, our new chook house is also fulfilling some important functions – shelter, a nesting place and a roost for our feathered friends. We need to be able to easily access the space to remove manure and […]
Biointensive Food Production
Developed in the 1970s by John Jeavons, biointensive agriculture is an organic food production system which focuses on growing large amounts of food on small areas of land, while simultaneously improving and maintaining the fertility of the soil. A happy combination of biodynamics and French intensive gardening, it was originally designed for developing countries low […]
How To Make Kale Chips
This season we planted a lot of kale seeds and have ended up with what we affectionately call the ‘kale forest’. However, as we all know, there is only so much steamed kale you can eat, so lately we’ve been branching out and making kale chips which are actually really good. Without even trying you can […]
Urban Edible Forest Gardens
‘Urban’ and ‘forest’ are two words (and realities) that don’t generally go together, so when we talk about having urban edible forest gardens (aka known as food forests), people scratch their heads and ask how? Which is why I’m sharing our experience in establishing our own forest garden in urban Hobart and how it saved […]
Swale Pathways
Hobart is Australia’s second driest capital city (Adelaide’s first) so catching and storing water is often on my mind. Annually we get approximately 615mm, most of which arrives in the cooler months in and around Winter. During Summer time our soils will dry out so ferociously that some soil types (including ours) will form cracks […]