Last Saturday I met up with my permaculture class at Karen Sutherand's beautiful home in Pascoe Vale. Karen has, over 25 years, turned her garden into an edible forest. We wandered around her garden picking kiwi fruit from vines, cherry guavas of small bushes and sucking the flesh of feijoas.
Karen has converted her shed roof into a rooftop garden where she keeps her bees and grows strawberries, has turned the nature strip outside her house into a community garden, the majority of her garden is watered using grey water and she has an aquaponics system worth drooling over.
Walking around Karen's garden and seeing the incredible abundance of winter produce was so inspiring. Putting your hands in the soil and being aware of how, where and in what season something grows is the most simple, beautiful way to reconnect to ourselves and to the land.
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| An array of fruits from the winter garden. |
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| Geodesic dome chicken tractor! |
I've just found this TED talk and found it so inspiring and a perfect addition to this post.
Leah
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