Spring Greens at Allsun Farm
Allsun Farm’s market garden down at Gundaroo is like this little magic pocket of green in the middle of the scrub. A secret garden you can eat, if you like.
5 really scrummy Things To Do with Berries this Summer
It’s coming up to berry season, folks! There is nothing quite as good as eating a handful of summer berries picked at their seasonal best. You can taste the summer sun in their tiny delicate bodies, all the while wondering how nature could get them so deliciously perfect.
Mushrooms, Labneh + Cardboard Telescopes
It’s been a month of growing, building, adventuring and making in these parts. And I’m slightly bemused to say that life is no less crazy living in a town than it is on a farm. But much of the craziness is good, in the forms of rabid broccoli growth, mushrooms everywhere, and adventuring with hand drawn maps.
Visiting: Autumn Farm, Bega
While we were down Bega way at the South East Permaculture Convergence recently, Ashar and I got a chance to hang with my friend Annie at her family’s little patch of paradise, Autumn Farm. Autumn Farm prettymuch sums up simple living, for me. A home grown, low impact, hand-made life. With a right livelihood to cover…
Photos: Our Spring Intro to Market Gardening course
Spring is for new beginnings, and new plans. And new gardens, too. And for learning – always learning. This Spring was the first time we’d run an Intro to Organic Market Gardening course somewhere other than our own farm. New farms, new fields, new folks.
Getting that Soil Up Top
We did it! All of us! There’s nothing quite so awesome as when folks come together with a common goal. It’s the essence of people power. Last Saturday, with the help of over 40 beautiful, hard working humans, we lifted 12 cubic meters of soil from the ground floor up to the 107 Rooftop Garden – with buckets,…
Making: Brydie’s Sneaky Sourdough (easy Low Yeast Bread)
It’s pretty hard to beat the smell of freshly baked bread at dawn…
Join us for Soil Up Top day: Sat 27th Sept
Hey Sydneysiders – who wants to help us get the Soil Up Top at the 107 Rooftop Garden this Saturday morning, bright and early? This is a callout for fit and fabulous folk who are up for a morning of goodness, with celebrity visitors and a free lunch at the end. Can you come?
107 Rooftop Garden Build: The Gabions
The 107 Rooftop Garden build is underway! And we’ve just finished the gabions that will form all the veggie bed surrounds, thanks to the hard and cheerful work of an awesome crew of pros and volunteers. We’re now one step closer to creating a community resource and edible oasis in the city…
September to September
What a difference a year makes. This time last September we were in full swing producing rows and rows of asian greens, and this September, it’s all about the egg cartons…
Help Us Build the Best Rooftop Garden Ever?
Hey it’s our first ever crowd funding project! Want to help us cultivate community? We’re dead set on creating a super urban permaculture garden on the rooftop of 107 Redfern Street – a place that will be an amazing community resource.
Bean Tipi Seeds – Who Wants Some?
Last year we had a rather great success with our Bean tipi – it flourished and also got a great workout as a cubby. And at the end of the season, of course, we got beans. Lots. So in the spirit of seed saving and paying it forward, we were thinking to pass on a…
The Price We Pay
Since we left the farm, our attitude to meat has shifted. Out of necessity, mostly. No more chest freezers full of home raised + slaughtered pigs + lamb, no dispatching + plucking of ducks or chickens, no random haunches of feral venison, home cured bacon or roadkill kangaroo backstrap.