Category Archives: Garden

Community garden landscaping gets underway

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Diversity is the spice of life

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 ...

Hungry for change

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 ...

FREE Ecovillage garden workshops for residents

With spring on the way, we are excited to announce the dates of our first FREE gardening workshops, available exclusively to Ecovillage residents. In these introductory workshops we will be delving into the establishment and management of organic food gardens for the home as residents get geared up to start ...

Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes

By Pam Gunnell, future Ecovillage resident Those of us at the Friday morning demonstration garden working bee last week were treated to a demonstration by Mark Tupman of how to make a Johnson-Su bioreactor composter. The name comes from the inventors of this method of making compost, Dr David Johnson, ...

Community Gardens Update – April 2021

Garden soil preparation begins in Stages 1-2 I’m happy to say that initial preparation on the exclusive use areas (EUAs) and community gardens is underway. This is where the soil testing and methodologies that we have been successfully undertaking in the Ecovillage demonstration garden come together to (eventually) bear fruit ...

The story of the Uke Nomads

By Laurie Bycroft and Anu Grace, Ecovillage caretakers It’s all quiet here tonight. The land is busy soaking in the steady, sweet rain of the past two days. The garden is in summer lush with sunflowers grinning wide enough to make a blind man see and heady zinnias drooping off ...

Flourishing polycultures at work

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 ...

Dividing fences covered by developer

Sustainable Settlements has decided to cover the cost of supply and install of the dividing fences between lots and roll it into the established lot price. This does not include end lots that have a side without a neighbouring lot. These end lots will have one dividing fence constructed on ...