Gender

Female

Location

Wellington

Birthday:

January 1

Suburb

Moonshine Hill

I am a...

Smallholder

I can offer

to be a gardening buddy, Lead a workshop

Food Growing Skill Level

Moderate

Experience and Qualifications

Lots of years in the garden

I am interested in...

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

Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

This year I had success with tomatoes, potatoes, maori spuds, pumpkin, spinach, silverbeet, corn, beans, peas, cape gooseberry, celery, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lemon-balm, lettuces, rhubarb, yams, mushrooms, chillis. Less successful were passionfruit, apples, tamarillo, fig, strawberries, lemons, capsicum - and blackberry ! (thought it impossible to fail with that). Basically, much less luck with fruits, despite all that sunshine and calm ??? Have young up-and-coming fruit trees in pots: plum, feijoa, apple, elder. Have mint, watercress and 'mouse-ear' mushrooms growing wild on the property, plus all the usual medicinal herbs - comfrey, chickweed, cleavers, calendula, plantain, dandelion, etc. I'm a qualified herbalist, especially interested in treating animals. Produce colloidal silver in bulk quantities, which am happy to swap. I have a large glasshouse 'in development' and a tunnel house also waiting to go up - this winter's projects ! I also have a lovely 1940s workingman's hut / bush cabin for rent, for anyone who is looking for the lifestyle.