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The Vegetable Gardens

  • bean kentucky wonder
    Bean ‘Kentucky Wonder' is super productive!
  • daughter planting seeds in the brand new raised garden beds
    My daughter planting the first seed in the brand new raised garden beds
  • cherry tomato sugar lump
    Cherry tomato ‘Sugar Lump'
  • elle with newly planted sweet potatoes in vegetable garden
    Elle with newly planted sweet potato ‘Northern Star'.
  • vegetable garden raised beds with bandicoot protection
    The raised beds covered in mesh to try and keep the bandicoots and chickens out.
  • sweet potatoes in raised garden bed
    Sweet potato ‘Northern Star' with Salvia ‘Black and Bloom'
  • elle very excited with the first homegrown asparagus of the season
    Elle very excited with the first homegrown asparagus of the season
  • pumpkin red kuri growing into the paddock
    Pumpkin Red Kuri growing into the paddock. This is a vigorous grower and we harvested over 25 pumpkins from this one plant!
  • homegrown carrot
    Yummy homegrown carrots!
  • chives and white bunching multiplying onion
    Chives and multiplying onion ‘White Bunching'. White Bunching grows extremely well in North Queensland.
  • the vegetable garden in need of a clean up
    The veggie garden after the rain – in need of a big tidy up! All those weeds will make fantastic mulch!
  • the raised beds full of vegetable and covered in mesh against bandicoots and chickens
    The raised beds in the vegetable garden.
  • elle with a bunch of pumpkins ready to harvest
    Elle with a bunch of pumpkins ready for harvest. These are pumpkin ‘Red Kuri'
  • silverbeet barese
    Silverbeet ‘Barese'
  • asparagus purple
    Young asparagus seedlings
  • bean idelight
    Young bean seedlings, ‘Idelight'
  • bean kentucky wonder
    Bean ‘Kentucky Wonder'
  • celery tall utah
    Celery ‘Tall Utah'
  • cucamelon
    Beautiful productive cucamelon
  • digging up a garden bed in the vegetable garden
    Hard work getting the first bed ready for plantig
  • filling raised beds
    The first raised bed filled with horse manure, lawn clippings, and brown leaves. A layer of weeds at the bottom for a juicy sandwich!
  • lettuce going to seed for seed saving
    Letting the lettuce go to seed for seed saving
  • nasturtium
    Nasturtium with gorgeous red flowers
  • newly transplanted strawberry runners in the asparagus bed
    Newly transplanted strawberry runners in the asparagus bed
  • pumpkin red kuri
    Pumpkin Red Kuri
  • pumpkin sweet dumpling
    Pumpkin Sweet Dumpling
  • transplanted strawberry runners
    Freshly transplanted strawberry runners
  • vegetable garden before the raised beds all inground
    The vegetable garden before we put in the raised beds – nothing planted yet!
  • vegetable garden before the raised beds
    The veggie garden before we put in the raised beds
  • basil mammoth
    Basil ‘Mammoth'
  • The raised beds in the vegetable garden covered with mesh against chickens and bandicoots.
    The raised beds in the vegetable garden covered with mesh against chickens and bandicoots.
  • elle from aussie roots in the vegetable garden with athena the horse
    Elle in the veggie patch with Athena, our 25-year old quarterhorse. Pumpkin Red Kuri in the foreground.
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Around the Farm

  • beautiful frangipani flower in the sunet
  • patches the dorper lamb
  • mummy chicken with babies
  • lowline and brangus cows
  • dog watching the chickens
  • horse cleaning up around the dam
  • cows enjoying some hay in the paddock
  • bamboo at the gate
  • baby chicken out and about with mum
  • chicken with baby chicks
  • chickens enjoying some homegrown lettuce and herbs
  • chickens in the chicken tunnel in the food forest
  • curious brangus cow
  • gorgeous rainbow over the cane fields
  • lowline cow with baby
  • mumma chicken with cute baby
  • overlooking the silk tree towards the paddock
  • riding horses and lots of cows in the sunset
  • the poinciana tree in flower at the dam with duckweed
  • the side of the food forest
  • view of the farm with sheep and tree in the foreground
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The Coconut Circle

  • Start of the coconut circle
    The start of the coconut circle. I dug this circle around an existing young coconut palm. It wasn't feeling happy so I hoped that the addition of some coconut friends would create a better environment for it to thrive.
  • planting out the coconut circle with coconuts
    Young coconut palms are now planted.
  • continuing work on the coconut circle
    The young coconut palms planted in the circle. I planted them at around 1m apart!
  • coconut circle mulched and filling up the compost centre
    A thick layer of mulch prevents the circle from drying out too quickly and keeps the soil healthy.
  • Our permaculture coconut circle
    I chose drip irrigation for the coconut circle. This did not work very well once the plants got bigger and the hose kept blocking up. Unless you install filters, stick to bigger sprinklers or hand watering!
  • sweet potato and salvia enjoy growing with the coconuts
    I added sweet potato as a ground cover. Sweet potato loves the loose, raised soil on the edges.
  • our lush coconut circle with sweet potatoes, salvia, and aibika
    The coconuts are doing very well! I added Salvia to increase insect activity. I also added Aibika (Queensland Greens) to increase diversity, as well as paw paw (Papaya) and Malibar spinach.
  • Sweet potato and aibika enjoy growing with the coconuts
    The Malibar spinach growing up the coconut tree.
  • beautiful coconut palm
    This coconut looks very happy in its circle home!
  • Our coconut circle going strong
    Another view of the coconut circle where you can see the paw paw on the left, and Aibika growing tall.
  • coconuts growing up
    The coconut palms are loving it! This is about 1.5 years after planting. Coconuts aren't the fastest growers (at least not in my experience) but these palms are doing extremely well. You can see the mulch pile in the middle. This hole in the middle provides you with a place to chuck all your prunings, clippings, sticks, and leaves. As it breaks down, it will provide a nice food source for the plants in the circle!
  • Coconut circle digging and manure
    This is the start of another circle. I loved my coconut circle so much, I have now created 6 others. This circle, thankfully, was dug by my husband on the excavator. It's certainly possible by hand (as I did with the first circle) but a machine makes it a lot easier!
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