- Don’t give a fig gardening
Sounds like a dream, but no dig gardening is possible without much fuss at all. We call it Don’t Give a Fig Gardening Tip 86 in Your Life Your Planet, Getting fed without giving a… Read More »Don’t give a fig gardening - Two and a half years
Two and a half years later: here’s what it looks like now. Here is a set of photographs of the community garden that started out as a rectangle of lawn and is fast turning into… Read More »Two and a half years - Making the most of Malabar spinach
We have had a number of questions about the soft and silky, fleshy plant that threatened to take over large sections of the community garden at the back of the property. It is Basella Alba,… Read More »Making the most of Malabar spinach - Green agenda publishes Troll story
Green Agenda has just published my article on the failure of the Australian Government to heed the call from health, education, and welfare advocates to place food at the centre of a positive and preventative… Read More »Green agenda publishes Troll story - Feeding the trolls
The tyranny of the majority stifles diversity. So do the rampaging trolls. Community-based regenerative food is grass-roots sustainable materialism. It is hardly a mainstream solution. Governments ignore its capacity to provide resilience because they cannot… Read More »Feeding the trolls - Let it Ferment!
Beer and bread are not the only fermented food fit for humans. Fermentation a traditional method of preserving fresh food to feed us when there is nothing in the garden or on the grocery shelves.… Read More »Let it Ferment! - Loving Lentils
Growing lettuce and tomatoes are satisfying but challenging in many climates at many times of the year. Wouldn’t it be great to grow the food we eat every day? Pigeon peas are also known as… Read More »Loving Lentils - 94. Pestilence! Fungus as disease
Pestilence hit our community garden. We had to destroy an entire paw paw crop. There I was, extolling the virtues of fungus in helping us break grass clippings down to soil and, now this. “It’s… Read More »94. Pestilence! Fungus as disease - 95: The Community in the Garden
A community garden offers pleasure and provides food. It also builds community! Jasmine and her cat enjoy the garden even when no other humans are there, but when other humans are about, they interact. The… Read More »95: The Community in the Garden - Tuber time as Autumn collides with Spring
Mid-winter in sub-tropical Brisbane is glorious. Warm and dry instead of hot and wet, our summer norm. European plants grow, the insect count is low and I am harvesting, feeding the soil and planting as… Read More »Tuber time as Autumn collides with Spring - Reality checks relieve despair
Doomscrolling is depressing but wilful ignorance is dangerous. Individual action seems pointless: so where does a weary climate warrior turn? I regularly sing the praises of my community garden but not all my neighbours are… Read More »Reality checks relieve despair - From grass to garden?
Sounds like a dream, but no dig gardening is possible without much fuss at all. We call it … Don’t give a fig gardening Tip 86 in Your Life Your Planet, Getting fed without giving… Read More »From grass to garden?