Showing posts with label soil health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil health. Show all posts

Monday, 16 March 2015

Our March gathering


Our March gardeners and visitors: Tony, Patrick & Meg with Woody, Ian, Tia & Jeremy with Jasper & Arden, Salvatore with Coco & Ravi, Fe with Luna & Fab, Dora, Maz, Peter J, Ruby & Alison.

A conscientious morning's work unfolded in sparkling March sunshine… general maintenance was the order of the day, with mowing and edging, compost turning and distributing, some weeding, some top dressing and seed scattering, some harvesting, some swapping, some watering, and of course lots of play, and catching up. The Albert St (library) garden has a real presence, an established physicality now, and is building to another depth… the stony, compacted, dry rubble and first hay-bale-bordered beds of the early days are hard to recall when standing amidst the rich, lush, many-layered garden of today… a random selection of pics from the morning:

corn-utopia!
Coco – Fe (with hidden Fab) & Luna – Tia  – Jeremy – Meg – Maz – Zero – Woody
Tony & Patrick set another compost
Tony – Maz – Patrick plant parsnips
Arden & Tia weeding
Jasper – Coco – Ravi – Arden playing
Salvo – Dora – Tia – Ruby – Alison
Woody & Luna
Patrick – Ravi – Zero –  Fe (Fab is over the back there!) – Coco – Luna – Arden – Tia – Meg

Salvo & Tony
Dora with bounty
a closer look!
a hidden pumpkin
this captured pumpkin is almost too heavy for Jasper
(we'll need another poster to hold it up!)
Ravi hiding
Ravi found!
...mystery melon of the month
Maz – Salvo & Ravi – Peter J – Patrick
This makes everything possible!

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Virginia of the Herbs

Virginia Langsford, a local herbalist and botanist, met with Mara, Lena and Patrick at Rea Lands Park today to discuss the place of medicinal plants in the garden and the teaching of their benefits in the community. Behind our meeting lay the enormous pumpkin patch, demonstrating the success of multilevel garden ecologies. Virginia is keen to teach people the healing properties of plants for humans, our kin animals, the health of the soil and companion plant relationships.


As Rea Lands is a perennial food forest garden in the making, it seems only natural perennial herbs and other medicinal plants be planted among the fruit and nut trees for both culinary and medicinal uses. 


As we're getting so many people to the monthly working bees at Albert Street, we thought Virginia could meet us there on occasions and poach herb-orientated folk to join her for both planting and learning sessions at Rea Lands Park. Virginia will let us know which working bee Saturdays she can come and we'll do a little publicity before hand... Speaking of which...


Our meeting today was brief and very inspiring, so if you're herb inclined and want to keep informed about the working bees with Virginia email us to go on the mail out list.