Dec 2013: Our friend Sandra has had a great idea. We are going to share regular meals over the next year with ingredients sourced primarily from our gardens.
This blog will follow what we do, share food growing ideas and recipes.
We are not professional growers or cooks but love our gardens which are in the lower Blue Mountains of NSW in Australia.
Sandra has a garden established around 30 years ago based on permaculture principles. Over that time, her forested shady block has become dominated by a 10 metre high macadamia nut tree. Other notable trees are the grapefruit (are they meant to reach 6 metres high and 4 metres wide?), tamarillos, limes and lemons. She has 5 laying chickens (Australorps), a family of ducks (pictured), a goat called Gracie (her genteel name somewhat belies her assertive personality) and her faithful dog, Bill (oh - and dear Harry the long haired ginger cat). It is a dense garden where nearly all the space is being used for food production (when Gracie allows). More about the garden and the animals in future blogs.
Our organic veggie garden (pictured) has been going for about 10 years. In comparison to Sandra's, it is small and neat and dedicated mainly to seasonal vegetable growing. We share our bush block with brush tailed possums, swamp wallabies, blue tongue lizards and many little marsupials. Our vegetable plants are in wire compounds because our animal visitors are not very good at sharing.
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