About

Gender

Female


Location

Canterbury


Birthday:

January 23


Suburb

Akaroa


Post / Zip Code

7583


I can offer

Nothing yet.


Food Growing Skill Level

Moderate


Experience and Qualifications

Permaculture Experience, WWOOFer, Dairy, Lots of years in the garden


I am interested in...

Buying Local Food, Selling Local Grown Food, Bartering Local Food, Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, WWOOFA Hosting, Seed Savers, Offering Land for Gardeners


Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

My garden started small with the standard silver beet, carrots & parsely. It grows every year both in size & scope. My husband built me a greenhouse last year, we covered in a large fruit cage & every year plant more fruit trees in our orchard. We use permaculture ideas for planning the land use zones, use animals such as pigs to clear new land, chichens to weed & catch bugs & all forms of manure for compost. I love trying new seeds like asian soup melons & choko vines this year. Sweet Chestnuts & a pomaganate tree are on this years's planting list.


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  • Kali June 26, 2010 at 1:20am
    Your garden sounds very much like ours (minus the pigs!) started off with a couple of vege beds that were here when we moved in, full of coal cinders and not too great, however we set to making compost and making more beds every year, just freeform, eating more and more into the yucky lawn, which i diligently mowed with a handmower at first until I wised up and bought a hand scythe and my son made a chicken tractor. we have planted lots of fruit trees but possums are getting the most out of them,,,
  • Kali June 24, 2010 at 2:27pm
    HI colleen, sounds like you will find lots in common with us all here on Ooooby :)
  • Megan June 24, 2010 at 10:24am
    welcome to ooooby Colleen. Here's a group that might be of interest to you https://ooooby.ning.com/group/southernseedexchange
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