What's Happening in the Garden?

Fair Harvest Permaculture Teachers with Rosemary Left to right Back row Jeff Nugent, Jema McCabe, Jodie Lane, Rosemary Morrow Front row Rod Hughes, Tamara Clements, Brenna Quinlan, Patrick Shannon After hosting an amazing week of Permaculture Training I asked one of our teachers Rod Hughes to write about how this week influenced our two week ... Read more

Thanks Rowe Morrow for encouraging me to tell everyone exactly what they are eating! It’s important so here goes. Sunday Lunch at Fair Harvest Thanks for joining us for one of our special Sunday lunches, here’s a little explanation of what was on your plate. I’ll start by saying that all fruit, veggies, eggs, honey ... Read more

Dear friends and followers   In this uncertain time of international health crisis we have made the decision to close to the general public and reduce the risk of spreading the virus in all ways possible.  After many years of developing our edible food gardens, sharing our knowledge and living the Permaculture principles as best we can we would like […]

Here we are in winter and one of the veggies we are enjoying eating nearly every day is Yacon. This sunflower like perennial yields delicious  tubers that are sweet and crunchy. Originating from Columbia and Ecuador it can grow to almost two meters high, has yellow daisy like flowers and is quite attractive when in flower though the plants die […]

Sweet Potato The next veggie in my regular “edible food from our garden” blog is the fabulous sweet potato. Here’s a little bit from me followed by an interview with Do the gardener. I’m choosing one edible each week that we are currently eating. The  growing information is specifically relevant to growing food in Margaret River Western Australia.     […]

I’ve been thinking for a while about writing about all the different edible plants we have in our gardens, there really are so many and I’m often asked “how many exactly”? well,  here we go, I’ll endeavour to write about one each week, it may be a herb, veggie, fruit, flower or seed, as long as it’s edible and it’s […]

Create your own retreat Everyone needs a little time out, a time to be with nature or simply to be with ones self, sit under a tree and read a book, go for a walk in some beautiful bush or wander along a special bit of coast. Maybe your idea of retreat includes yoga classes, organic food, meditation and teachers […]