At last, after a long, dry parched season, we’ve had some relieving rain. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we can get a lot of leverage out of the water that falls from the sky in the wet season that’s ahead of us. Plants, soil fauna and ...
By Mark Tupman, Productive Ecology* As another year of gardening draws to a close at the Ecovillage, residents are still busy planting out rounds of warm season vegetables and herbs – tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, zucchini’s, cucumbers, corn, capsicum, eggplant, chillies, potatoes, basil, etc. The weather has been beautiful over spring, ...
By Mark Tupman, Productive Ecology Ecovillage residents will be well familiar with our resident flock of Babydoll sheep by now. We (Sustainable Settlements) started the WEV flock around four years ago with some lambs purchased from Tanjar Babydoll stud, and later acquired a few more from the only other available ...
Garden Update – July 2023 The driving rain is a good indication that we are now well into Makuru, the coldest and wettest time of the year. In harsh weather conditions, one of the most important things you can have in place are living plants to protect and feed the ...
Garden Update – April 2023 It’s still early days, but already, a strong food growing culture is well and truly emerging at the Ecovillage. Gardens are popping up everywhere as new residents get their EUAs (Exclusive Use Areas) underway. It is a joy to behold the ever-changing vegie patches, in ...
As every gardener knows, having a garden is like being part of another world. There’s something about spending time with the plants, animals and microbes that just makes you feel connected to the whole thing. ...
Garden Update – March 2022 It’s early days but the first veggie patches are starting to pop up around the Ecovillage and they are already adding life and colour to the site. The last few months have been particularly hot and dry and it sure makes one appreciate having a ...
It’s been a long, cold, wet Djilba and while it doesn’t feel like it at times, I think we can now safely say, Kambarang is underway. For those that sniff and sneeze with the pollen release at this time of year, there’s been some relief from dust settling, late season ...
Starting out in the field of organic gardening today must be both exciting and somewhat overwhelming. There’s a world of information at our fingertips, and no shortage of options, opinions and offers to follow down the garden path. When I first studied horticulture, we mainly focused on the physical and ...
