Suburban Farmer

Every few weeks I get a slightly panicked email or question relating to the complicated world of CROP ROTATION. After the long, anxious, confused, and inevitably deflated request for help, my answer is somewhat simple, a little disappointing at first glance, and bewildering as my response is usually something like this…WHY BOTHER YOURSELF, NATURE DOESN’T…

I deh pon forward (walk outside) out to the back into the garden and have a look around. Nothing unusual, the plants are healthy and growing greatly, the compost is composting, the bees are buzzing and the chooks are ZOMBIES!?! What happened to my beautiful chookies? Did a dog dig an old chook up and…

So we have all heard about manure but GREEN MANURE? Not too common in PERTH but it is gaining traction with more understanding its importance to adding humus, amino acids and organic content to our soils and improving fertility. Most of these manures come from animals and are usually brown and stinky. Chook poo, Pig…

Perth massive (growers) have you ever thought about how many punnets you have brought lately and thrown away the containers, just to go and buy more seedlings when needed and wondered, it must be hard to grow your own hence why we buy our seedlings. Most of us also have a selection of seeds we…

After all that WINTER weather and (I hope) lots of eating WINTER veggies I think it’s safe to say we all long for our SPRING and SUMMER veggie garden. The life and the colours it brings, balancing out the WINTER. However, did you know that SUMMER SOILS are made during the WINTER, and WINTER SOILS…

Blessed Mumma and Pappa Earth always provides! In this blog we are looking at creating great compost for free from your own gardens all around PERTH. Giving you a source of Soil Health Conditioning/Strengthening/Building, and, quite possibly upsetting some Green Wheelie bin enthusiasts, probably confusing some formal gardeners, and most definitely annoying big chain suppliers…

Summer in Perth is a great time for beach, barbecues, backyard cricket and enjoying the sunshine.

There is nothing better as an adult than to see and witness the fulljoy, the excitement, the innocence, the imagination and curiosity, the love and wonder a child has whilst they explore nature and see through a child’s eye what the living world can create – and what they can help create from their own hands.…