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

I am interested in...: Buying Local Food, Bartering Local Food, Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Helping Others, WWOOFA Hosting, Seed Savers, Food Forest

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing: Large garden with tunnel house and propagation area/shade house propagating edibles. Lots of fruit trees, slowly developing food forest. Miking goats.

At 10:27pm on November 16, 2009, Kali said…: I'm a bit of a mad-collector/try-anything-once kind of gardener so you name it I've probably grown it sometime in the last ten years, I have a lot of things planted already, including some yacon and purple artichokes for the first time, I cram my vege garden with all sorts and they have to fight it out for space, I'm just musing over where to plant the cucumbers because i always underestimate how big they will get, I have made separate beds for the pumpkins and courgettes this year for the same reason.my greenhouse is now planted with numerous kinds of tomato and basil, theres lots of lettuce and mesclun mix for salads and the broad beans are just about ready to pick, peas just flowering, climbing beans being nibbled nightly by slugs, healthy looking potatoes (tops at least) this year after some sort of leaf-blight gave them a hard time last year .... etc.etc, I have a few photos up on my page and will add more as the year goes by so take a look :)