permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in permaculture plants on Nov 19th, 2009
They may not be as sexy as some annuals, however perennial food plants make a whole lot of sense & they really help with putting the ‘perma’ in permaculture.
I’ve started assembling good information resources on these plants and hope to gradually accumulate perennials and incorporate them in the permaculture landscape that I am hoping to [...]
Posted in permaculture on Oct 18th, 2009
Sheet mulching is a core permaculture activity – so I suppose it’s probably time I gave it a go.
I have no shortage of areas that could do with significant soil improvement – the place that I have settled upon is on the low side of my top swale.
It is currently planted out mostly with wattles, [...]
Posted in manure on Oct 13th, 2009
I’m sure that I’m not the first one to think of this. That is, running dryish cow manure through the shredder.
But I’ve got to say, I’m happy with the result!…beautiful soft, fluffy soil enhancer that the veggies should love.
My neighbours have 4 calves and kindly let me take a share of their boy cows’ output [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Sep 11th, 2009
Vetiver haircut
Last Saturday it was time to give my vetiver a trim – to be frank, it ended up being a bit of a mum cut….. straight fringe, no layering, you know what I mean.
I was rather amazed to discover that the taller stems were nearly 3 metres long.
Well not any more….now they are all [...]
Posted in permaculture on Sep 2nd, 2009
Didn’t a couple of Australians originally come up with the brilliant concept of Permaculture??
Then how come, there’s no Aussie permaculture magazine? I’ve just subscribed to ‘Permaculture’ from the UK and my first copy arrived today.
It looks great - just makes me a little sad that I couldn’t find something a little closer to home, [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants on Jul 28th, 2009
This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
(’The Bruces’ – Monty Python)
The wattle blossom is starting to go ballistic here at my place. I have put in three or four hundred plants over the past few years, so I suppose [...]
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants, weeds on Jul 5th, 2009
I created quite a stir in the chicken run today – it was time to build the residents a herbatorium.
This is an idea that I must have read about somewhere in the permaculture literature, I just can’t remember where, so I don’t know who to credit.
As most of you would know, chickens left to their [...]
Posted in weeds on Jun 15th, 2009
Out of respect, I thought that before I won total control over all weed species on the property, I should at least record their one time presence. So I have started to put together a photographic list of the little buggers, as a kind of tribute….
Actually, I am not that anti-weed these days.
An excellent book [...]
Posted in permaculture plants on Jun 12th, 2009
Firstly I should declare that I am a total convert to vetiver, the wonder grass. I won’t waste time trying to explain all its virtues, just go to http://www.vetiver.org/ and let the experts tell all.
Having planted out about 25 baby vetiver plants late last September, it was time to turn my hand to propagating from [...]
Posted in bamboo on Jun 3rd, 2009
Well, I guess you have to kick off a blog somewhere…so here goes. Last week, on one of those trips to the local dump, where I often come away with more rubbish than I take….I discovered some beautiful thick yellow bamboo poles in the garden refuse section.
The vague idea that crossed my mind was that [...]
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