permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in organics, vegetables on Aug 19th, 2009
In late June I wrote a little post entitled ‘Not a bug in sight’, where I rather smugly described how easy it was to grow vegetables in the Brisbane winter.
Not long after, the much feared Zucchini Gang descended upon my patch and things around here changed dramatically for the worse.
While the gang are not actually [...]
Posted in organics on Aug 12th, 2009
While living in Adelaide twenty years ago, I attended a series of evening organic gardening classes given by Peter Bennett.
I think that it is safe to say that Peter is widely regarded as one of leading proponents of organic gardening in Australia. While attending his classes, Peter often spoke of the virtues of Eokomit, a [...]
Posted in Samford Local Growers on Jul 11th, 2009
This morning I headed along to the John Scott Park in Samford Village.
With little fanfare or preceding publicity, the Samford Local Growers were holding their first local produce stall.
Samford Local Growers is a community group established in September 2008 by people in the wider Samford Dayboro area.
Considering that it is the middle of [...]
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