Tim Searle's Page

Suburb

Bryndwr

I am a...

Gardener

I can offer

Gardening & yard labour, Poultry sitting, to be a gardening buddy, Permaculture design, Food from my garden, Preserving

Food Growing Skill Level

Moderate

Experience and Qualifications

Permaculture Experience

I am interested in...

Buying Local Food, Selling Local Grown Food, Bartering Local Food, Community Gardens, Preserving, Helping Others, WWOOFA Working, Seed Savers, Gardening on others Land

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

We are a flat of students who won an eco-flat competition last year and are making big plans to take out top prize once again! Personally I'm very into designing and building things with free materials, a passion which I service by way of what I like to call "industrial foraging" - using waste materials from companies is an easy way to get free wood and lots more.

So for the competition last year we built a free glasshouse, expanded the garden, saved money with bulk food and wooly jerseys and learned to preserve food and brew cider (clearly a skill of utmost importance). Our current/future projects include building a solar water pre-heater (heat water from council before it enters our cylinder), making a beehive in an old piano and expanding the glasshouse to head-height.