February – Permaculture Food Gardening in Subtropical Australia by Ewa Bekiesch, Permaculture designer, educator, self-sufficient and sustainable living consultant, and healthy food advocate. Hot and humid! However, nature is generous with rain at the moment and we appreciate every single drop and enjoy the food we harvest at this time of the year, and there is plenty to harvest! We are not running out of jobs in the garden, however, we are limiting the work to the early morning and/or very late afternoon hours. In addition to the summer gardening jobs listed below, February is the month when I prune all sorts of my perennial and self-seeding bushes. Especially Pigeon… Read More
Continue ReadingJanuary – Permaculture Food Gardening in Subtropical Australia
January – Permaculture Food Gardening in Subtropical Australia by Ewa Bekiesch, Permaculture designer, educator, self-sufficient living consultant, and healthy food advocate. January and February are the hottest months in Australia. The gardening hours are limited at this time of the year but we don’t stop growing food. I usually sort my jobs by priority and the list below shows pretty much my food forest summer priorities. Most work is done in the morning and late afternoon. It doesn’t make much sense to grill yourself during the day. Sitting on the veranda and enjoying a cold drink while planning your autumn garden or reading an interesting book is a much better… Read More
Continue ReadingPermaculture Design for the Rainbow Gully Community Commons – Community Garden in Hervey Bay QLD
It was a great pleasure for me to present the design and the 13 pages design report to the volunteers of the community gardens today 🙂 And because I know that many of you are interested in this project, I am happy to present you a little glimpse of the report which is the final design of the Community Garden – Food Growing Area. I just recently had the pleasure to design a 10 years plan for the Rainbow Gully Community Commons – Community Garden in Hervey Bay QLD Australia. The 13 pages design report is covering all elements of the design, detailed description of each element and additional notes… Read More
Continue ReadingOur Food Forest Guide July 2019
We grow over one hundred different edibles in our food forest. Here is the list of nearly all of them. We will be selling most of these plants as seedlings in our nursery soon. Subscribe to our mailing list if you like to stay updated. More details soon! Permaculture Haven Food Forest July2019 To download the list, please click HERE
Continue ReadingLet’s Talk Vegetables
Story and Photo by Ewa Bekiesch, Certified Permaculture Designer and Educator, QLD Pacific Haven (This is the article I wrote for our local monthly magazine The Beacon, Issue 2, 2018) Let’s Talk Vegetables Based on the new report from the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, all Australians (99%) aged 2–18, and 9 in 10 adults aged 19 and over do not eat the recommended number of daily serves of vegetables. The food we eat plays an important role in our health and well-being. Good nutrition contributes to quality of life, helps maintain healthy body weight, protects against infection, and reduces the risk of chronic conditions and premature death. Chronic… Read More
Continue ReadingEnrich The Soil With The Plants You Grow
Give the soil what it needs 🙂 Its so easy!
Continue ReadingWe have changed our pages name :)
Thank you for your inquiries 🙂 Yes, we have changed our youtube and instagram page name from FoodForestCookery into PermacultureHaven as it reflects much better what we do. It is not all about cooking only here at our small permaculture hobby farm 😀 You will find more content and news on our new website and blog here soon.
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