International Permaculture Day (today)

For International Permaculture Day

EJ and I took a short road trip...

just 20kms down the road..

to Brogo  Permaculture Garden

hee hee hee - check out the hound coming to great us as we headed down the driveway...
there's Mumbulla mountain in the distance

I was keen to see how the food forest that I helped to plant back in January last year

was fairing after 18months... and you can look for yourselves!

the food forest is still in the establishment period -
all the groundwork has been done - with the extensive swales and terraces working very very well 

young acacias, comfrey, yarrow, clumping bamboo, bana and vetiver grass,

 free seeded daisies and random vege and tamarillos are all going brilliantly

soon john will be planting some of the main perennial species

Mediterranean plants like olives for the dry slope, 

avacado and macadamia for the moist slopes

look at the tamarillos and comfrey
(the hundreds of little comfrey that started as itty bitty root cuttings
seem to have all established - quite amazing!)

Ej enjoyed playing 'mountain goat' with me

(its quite a steep terraced slope!)

and in typical garden/permaculture way - of course john dug up a segment of bana grass

for us to take home for our garden

sharing

(of goods, labour, stories)

is what community is all about 

and the permaculture mob are a wonderful sharing mob

and in that spirit - here's a video message for IPD 

from permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren

 

enjoy!

 *PS - if you followed the link to the Brogo Permculture website  -
check out the piccie of a daggy looking gal in a mauve shirt operating the theodolite...
yep its yours truly....

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