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, ...
We enjoyed another milestone in October when we held a little community event to hand over several rows of avocado trees to clusters 1A, 1B and 1C from the orchard in the wastewater irrigation zone. It was a fun and informative couple of hours where all who attended received a ...
The weather gods smiled on the Edible Gardens Festival organisers this year as more than 500 punters came out in force to visit a diverse array of gardens across the Margaret River region. Read the organisers’ wrap-up here: https://ediblegardensfestival.au/edible-gardens-festival-2023-a-huge-success/ There is so much edible garden goodness going on at 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 ...
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 ...
Mike Hulme (Ecovillage developer) is never one to pass up an opportunity to get out from behind his desk and get his hands dirty, in this case, quite literally! He and Paul Jurjevich (Ecovillage vigneron) were only too happy to wade into the mud of the middle dam to retrieve ...
Garden Update – February 2021 It’s been a couple of years since we first started on the Kikuyu patch that is now our demonstration garden. Over a steady procession of stages through the seasons it has been transformed into a whole new productive ecosystem showing that you can quite rapidly ...
Garden Update: October 2020 Over the winter months, the Ecovillage horticulture team has been consolidating its existing projects in readiness for the next phase. It’s good to have the nutrition, weed and pest and disease management programs in place and working well. Much of my focus in the last year ...
Coronavirus has hijacked the news cycle and social discourse so completely in the last four months that it’s difficult to find anything to read that is not, in some way, influenced by the pandemic gripping our world. Indeed, the unfolding impact of COVID-19 is the catalyst for this article ...
