Category Archives: Garden

Making black gold

If you’ve been following the Ecovillage horticultural updates, you’re probably well aware of how much we value good compost. As such, in our demonstration gardens we have been making and trialling a few different systems to test the quality of compost made and ease of use. Firstly, what do we use ...

Warming up the garden

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 ...

Building healthy soil and establishing avocados

As always, it’s been very busy in the horticulture department this season at the Ecovillage. With the vineyard planted out, we turned our attention to the avocado orchard. First up, we sowed a protective summer cover crop of sunflowers, sorghum and cowpeas on the side of the mounds just in ...

Beautiful illustrations give life to the Ecovillage

If you follow the Ecovillage on Instagram or Facebook, you will have already seen two of the three hand-drawn conceptual illustrations we recently commissioned from talented architect, Niall Browne of @coveneybrowndesign. Artist’s impression of the future Village Square The first concept is a street-level perspective of the Village Square looking ...