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Suburb: Mt Barker

I can offer: Gardening & yard labour, Gardening advice, to be a gardening buddy, Lead a workshop

Food Growing Skill Level: Confident

Experience and Qualifications: Permaculture Experience, Horticulturalist, Lots of years in the garden

I am interested in...: Buying Local Food, Selling Local Grown Food, Bartering Local Food, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, WWOOFA Hosting, Seed Savers

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing: my garden offers me 2 basic functions. firstly, i'm quite busy running around in circles so don't want to spend to much time on it... but, i really love the fact that i can go at any time and get a delicious feed from it. saves a lot of money...
and secondly, its my very valuable daily meditation. and perfect for it!
we all know about garden yoga and the removal of weeds.
and i love the extra energy i get from fueling my body clean, live nutritious food. thats the type of quality of life i want to lead.

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local food

thanks pete. great idea and site!

a few years ago, i heard Ralph Nader of the American greens speaking in Seattle saying local food production and distribution was a national security issue. i remember at the time thinking 'my, what an exaggeration!'

but then after giving it some thought i realized that indeed he was right. our supermarkets have about 3-5 days food on hand! that ain't much if we experienced a big earth shake or something that cut supply lines. and we all… Continue

Posted on October 14, 2009 at 11:22am — 1 Comment

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At 9:39pm on July 20, 2012, margaret kwok said…: Hey Greg I just sent you friend request- but it wouldn't let me write much! I see you know Andy, we are studying with otago polytechnic and I am organising a Permaculture Course in Wanaka, for them next year. Hoping You and Lisa might want to be involved somehow. I will be down next week so give me a text 0273385542 if you too want to catch up. Hopefully Lisa will remember me- I ampart chinese- live at Tui, and help with robina and Gary's courses at Tui. Yay

At 9:35pm on May 29, 2012, Kama Burwell said…: Hey Greg, hope you are well on the road to health!

Lots of love, Kama

At 8:21am on July 20, 2009, Gabi Prince said…: Ahh - now I know. Maybe with a bit of garlic butter - sorry but the chickens aren't having that. They have enough grass to gorge on here (all free range with chicken wire protecting my vegie plot) Thanks for that x

At 4:32am on July 18, 2009, Gabi Prince said…: Hi Greg, I'm new here too. Please don't think I'm ignorant, but please, what is Slverbeet? I have never heard of it, not in UK anyway. Could I grow it here? I live by the South Coast of England, so quite warm here. x

At 11:24pm on July 17, 2009, Brenda Agnew said…: Hey Greg! sweet garden you have. Hope to see it in the season! I'm looking forward to getting into it this season. Love the idea of seed saving and swapping. I think we need a winter ritual... Bxx

At 10:39pm on July 17, 2009, Pete Russell said…: Hello Greg. Welcome. Good to have you with us. Hope you like it here. Feel free to invite any food growing friends and fam. Have fun oooobying!!