Growing edibles in a vertical garden is a great space-efficient way to grow good food. But which sorts of plants work best and will thrive in this kind of system? As with all garden design, it depends. Is your vertical garden in full sun, or full shade? Is it in a sheltered place, or exposed? These factors, and…
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The time for our Winter Permaculture Design Course is coming up fast! It’s happening 12 – 25 July in Sydney. For this course, we’re very excited to have a truly stellar teaching team to lead new designers through their learning: Hannah Moloney, Nick Ritar, Rosemary Morrow, Brendan Morse + Narelle Happ. We often get asked…
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Hey! What are you doing on Saturday 13th June? Come and learn something new with us. It’s our monthly 107 Rooftop Gardening day, and this time we are doing: SEEDBALL WORKSHOP + GARDEN CHORES Saturday June 13 – 9am – 11am – 107 Rooftop Garden In this workshop we’re making seedballs – an excellent technique…
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When you’re creating a permaculture design, mapping where the sun falls on your site at different times of the year is central. Why? Because plants need sun. If you want healthy veggies or sweet fruit, you need to place your gardens, greenhouses and orchards where they will get adequate sunshine for the parts of the…
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Time to get growing, peeps! We’ve just launched two new one-day courses to help folks start gardening + growing fruits and nuts from absolute scratch. Organic Gardening Basics We’ve had a bunch of requests for a start-at-the-start, one day food growing course that can take you from enthusiastic-but-no-idea to someone who can, really truly, grow their…
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It’s a common dream – get some friends together, pool resources, buy land and grow goodness for the community. But unlike many dreamers, Fork & Hoe Collective are actually doing it. And we love them for it. Fork & Hoe Collective are Natasa, Scott, Thea and Jono, with junior farmers Sen and Jethro. They farm…
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A delicious vegetable dip (with home made crackers) is a hard snack to beat. Here’s three super easy and awesomely tasty recipes you should make right now… Sitting down and sharing food with others has to be one of the best things in life. Whether it be an intimate dinner for two, a shared breakfast…
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Learning how to make a great seed raising mix means you are giving your seedlings an excellent head start. It also keeps costs down and is a great fundamental skill of edible gardening. Recently up at the107 Rooftop Garden, that’s exactly what we were all there to learn how to do. A dark threatening sky looked over…
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Here’s how we built a bunch of mobile micro forest gardens for the 107 Rooftop Garden – complete with wicking beds. Our challenge with this design was to build tree planters that could move around to make space when needed, while providing shade, beauty, pollination and food. Mobile Forest Garden Wicking Planters: Pallet undercarriage so they can…
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He’s back! We’re pleased to announce that David Holmgren (co-originator of Permaculture) is coming to Sydney on 3-4 June to teach an Advanced Permaculture Principles course. How good is that. We’ve been lucky enough to have David come through Sydney every other year or so, at which point he’s contributed to our Permaculture Design Courses,…
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I can’t think of a better way to spend an evening – a rushing stream, forest all around, and a campfire. Of course. Recently we were down in Tasmania and we found one of those choice little spots that, when you’re planning to go adventuring, you dream of happening upon. No-one else around, tall forest, clear water,…
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Rightio then. Who wants to come and get their hands dirty and help out at the 107 Rooftop Garden? Saturday May 2nd marks the beginning of our monthly garden dig-ins – a morning of garden chores, learning, new friends and dirty fingernails. Each time there will be a short workshop, followed by the glory of seasonal garden chores.…
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What do you get when you cross a sustainable fisheries bloke with a Permaculture Design Course? An Aquaponics system enthusiast, advocate and entrepreneur, that’s what. Matt Spalding took our PDC last year and since then he’s been going gang-busters on learning + building home aquaponics systems, with a focus on fish health, as well as…
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