I’m back. And what an amazing time I had over at the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence in London. The most amazing part was to be together with so many like-minded people from all around the world. All up there were about 1500 people from 70 different countries that attended the two events. There was… View more
October Gardening Guide – Mediterranean Climate As I look around the garden today, I’m delighted by the brilliant green of new spring foliage, the shade of trees and vines that self-adjust as the weather warms, the rapid emergence of heat-loving vegetables from seed, as well as new growth on the subtropical trees. It all tells… View more
October Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate What to Plant in October? Rocket, mustard, tatsoi and Miners lettuce: Plant seeds at regular intervals to keep the crops coming. These will all tolerate the build-up to the wet season. Darwin lettuce is a more traditional option that does well at this time of the year. The French Sorrel… View more
October Gardening Guide – Cool Climate What to Plant in October? Tomatoes: Cool temperate gardeners are obsessed with tomatoes in October. There is no need to rush your planting, especially if your seedlings are happy in their pots. The best time to plant is when the soil has warmed up a bit (look for self… View more
September Gardening Guide – Tropical Climate What to Plant in September? There is still time to plant the last crop of just about everything. Be aware that some crops will be lost if there is an early wet season. The last couple of years have not seen a good wet season so planting is likely… View more
September Gardening Guide – Mediterranean Climate After some good soaking rains, Adelaide’s soil is now much better charged. We’re also starting to see longer days and some real sunshine, so we can expect the soil to start warming up nicely over the next couple of months ready for the boom time. (Yep, that’s booming weeds… View more
 September Gardening Guide – Cool Climate What to Plant in September? Loads of leafy greens and roots like carrots, parsnip, beetroot, turnips and swedes can all be sown now. Also celery and silverbeet (or rainbow chard – pretty!) seedlings, brassicas like broccoli and cabbage, leeks, and the ubiquitous spring onions and radish. Peas and broad beans… View more
I am so excited by my garden at the moment. Our berries are doing tag teams supplying us with juicy nutritious snacks; first it was the strawberries in the aquaponics, now it’s the mulberries from our smallish yet abundant tree and next it will rasberries, which are just showing the first blushes of colour. … View more
Well we’re in the full swing of production mode again pulling together articles for issue three. It’s going to be another cracker. Issue two is selling well and can be found at stockists around the country. Here is one of our newest stockists in Sydney; Orchard St, Elixir Bar. We also held our first course here… View more
Things just seem to going off here at the moment. I had the realisation that this is the first Spring we have had on the property that we haven’t been building the house, hence for once we are actually semi-organised and prepared. Thanks to the greenhouse we have our seedlings happily growing away getting a… View more
As a main or side dish, this cheesy cauliflower bake recipe is perfect for those cold, wintery nights.
As you read this email the ink is hitting the paper on issue two of Pip and thanks to all the amazing people who have contributed articles from around the country it is a really inspiring read. The magazine will arrive as a huge pile of boxes next week when my shed will turn into… View more
