edible forest gardens, food forests, perennial edibles

The work we love is growing! Last year, we were delighted to start collaborating with Just Food and Permaculture Ottawa, and to discover that all three of our permaculture courses and the community permaculture convergence were booked full. We hosted several community events through Transition Perth, including a solar cooker demonstration, a gift bazaar, a veggie garden tour, a fruit propagation workshop and a collaborative communication workshop.

A little less grass in our yard and a little more space for planting! We decided to use all the biomass from the trees we recently trimmed to make a hugelkultur bed in our garden. We also created a winding path along the outside of where our annual garden will be to help keep out the grass.  All of the materials were free!  I love creating abundance and beauty from surplus, scrap materials.  Yes indeed, waste=food xoxo

After a few years of dreaming and several months of intentional observation, we've finally started a bit of garden here at our new home!  This weekend, we sheet mulched a new garden bed, planted a small guild of edible plants and put up a mini hoop house!