Garden, Permaculture design

A LOOP AROUND THE GARDEN

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We have finished our PDC course. The final task was to design a garden for a Permablitz in Coburg. It was really interesting doing a design for a real place. The client is time poor so our design centred around an “everyday loop” that they could walk in 5 minutes around the garden to harvest all the things that need to be collected everyday, including chicken eggs. Perennials and orchard trees are on meandering little stepping stone paths off the main loop. My favourite part is the arbor which will be abundant with pumpkins and zucchini in summer.

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Garden, Permaculture design

VEG OUT UNDER LUNA PARK

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As part of our PDC course we visited the community garden Veg Out in St Kilda. It has quite a lovely history, it began as an abandoned bowling green, the building had been taken over by a group of artists who after a while felt sorry for the weed infested green and began nurturing it and then it sprawled and rambled out into one of the prettiest, creative community gardens I have seen. It was so loved by the community that the council couldn’t kick them out and now have grown to cherish it too. Dinosaurs made of trash metal stalk under the shadow of Luna Park and, there is a garden bed shaped as a ship complete with a mini sail, each plot has a letter box so when there are water restrictions everyone knows when they are allowed to water. It was a very inspiring place, every child at heart couldn’t help but melt.

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Garden, Travel

SILHOUETTES OF QUINCE

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Native flowers by the Merri Creek, Brunswick, Australia

Edible weeks along the Merri Creek, Brunswick, Australia

Silverbeet in the Ceres Market Garden on the Merri Creek, Coburg, Australia

Leeks in the Ceres Market Garden on the Merri Creek, Coburg, Australia

Beetroot in the Ceres Market Garden on the Merri Creek, Coburg, Australia

Rows of vegetables in the Ceres Market Garden on the Merri Creek, Coburg, Australia

Rubbish in the Merri Creek, Coburg, Australia

Permablitz Analysis, Coburg, Australia

Quince tree silhouette, Coburg, Australia

Quince fruit, Coburg, Australia

Permablitz site visit, Coburg, Australia

We went for a walk along the Merri Creek as part of our PDC. It’s amazing that Ceres has its market garden along the bank and hasn’t had every last stalk plucked under the cover of darkness. A few things have vanished, but their policy of if you come and help harvest you can keep half what you pick has encouraged a community to build up there.

 

We visited the site which will be the subject of our final design exercise, it’s all rather exciting really.

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