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We're from Snowy NSW in Australia. We have 90 acres, as well as a garden. Last few years have been trying to work out how to cope with the cold and the dry windy heat; how to be more organic and less chemically oriented on the farm and how to have less to mow!
Went on a day workshop on permaculture gardening with one of my teens. We came home and started a no-dig garden as we have a lot of rock under the ground and it's worked pretty well for a start. My son wants to map everything out first (and never get started) and I just want to throw all the seeds in and see what comes up. We did a bit of both and had some funny results, and some even edible!
Looking at trying to make a tunnel out of plastic to manage the cold months, and then put up shade cloth for those baking summer days.
We're also on a big Natural Farming learning curve. They say you're never too old to learn....but some days you can be too tired. Luckily the garden and the fabulous views from it make it all worthwhile. I have a blog with a gardening section, and take the mickey out of our efforts, since if you can't laugh it's not worth doing.
Looking forward to listening to what you do 'over there' as we're a bit of a rarity here with the -10C in winter, so typical Aussie info doesn't aways work.
Ali
Went on a day workshop on permaculture gardening with one of my teens. We came home and started a no-dig garden as we have a lot of rock under the ground and it's worked pretty well for a start. My son wants to map everything out first (and never get started) and I just want to throw all the seeds in and see what comes up. We did a bit of both and had some funny results, and some even edible!
Looking at trying to make a tunnel out of plastic to manage the cold months, and then put up shade cloth for those baking summer days.
We're also on a big Natural Farming learning curve. They say you're never too old to learn....but some days you can be too tired. Luckily the garden and the fabulous views from it make it all worthwhile. I have a blog with a gardening section, and take the mickey out of our efforts, since if you can't laugh it's not worth doing.
Looking forward to listening to what you do 'over there' as we're a bit of a rarity here with the -10C in winter, so typical Aussie info doesn't aways work.
Ali
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