Symphony of the Soil

A forest requires no human maintenance and no inputs of fossil fuel energy, pesticides, herbicides or fertilisers to create an abundance of life. By modelling our edible and medicinal gardens on the principles of a forest, we too can also have low maintenance, low input gardens – gardens with all the diversity, resilience and beauty of natural systems

We have been growing a permaculture here for many years, and severe climate change has been experienced in the time, scientists say to bring back lush and rainy climate we need to plant heaps of vegetation. Dr Christine Jones stressed over and over that we need to have green plants all over the ground all summer, plants of any kind will do. If all you have is weeds, be glad you have something. I've been saying the same. But its highly likely you would prefer strawberries and walnuts to double gees and paddy melons. So, in attempts  to grow yummy and nutritional stuff, we came up against the fact that our soils are too poor now to grow anything much but weeds. If you add fertilizers and non wetting agents and any number of other products designed to help grow good looking plants, you in fact make things worse and stuff up the waterways and oceans as well. Plus the produce lacks flavour. Thanks to CC we were struggling to grow food and fodder from 2008 until 2 years ago. We had implemented lots of great strategies but the final (?) piece of the soil improvement puzzle was making  really great compost and compost tea.

Now I have my  garden back, in spite of the climate. 

 Growing  greenery is the best thing we can do about climate change, and growing food organically  is the only way to be healthy besides buying all organic produce. 
 Please join us in growing soil and tons of biomass.We'll tell you everything we know at our workshop in February: