3.5 acre property being set up to run along permaculture principles. We have been here since 2018 and have spent 7 years establishing an orchard with a variety of fruit and nut trees suited to the subtropics. Currently we grow herbs and vegetables for personal consumption and have some poultry (ducks and chickens) for eggs and to assist with pest and weed control. We have a small flock of sheep in the back paddock to control the pasture that backs onto wildlife habitat down near the dam which is stocked with fish and visited by local wildlife (kangaroos, spoonbills, ibis, herons, native ducks and marsh frogs).
We are very experienced gardeners with training in horticulture and permaculture design and practise. Virginia is a keen practitioner of food preservation techniques including dehydrating and fermenting. Mick grew up on a small farm and was a workplace health and safety, horticulture and farm mechanisation teacher at an agriculture college. We could use a hand to continue the ongoing work to further develop the farm system and can pass on skills, knowledge and techniques to younger people with a desire to learn about nature and develop practical skills in a relaxing rural-residential environment.
We would also like to share and exchange experience with like minded people.
Organic/Biological methods we use
Permaculture.
Raised hugelkulture beds for vegetables and herbs, companion planted in guilds.
Hugelkulture beds for fodder belts and orchard trees.
