Tag Archives: garden update

Flourishing polycultures at work

Garden Update – February 2021 It’s been a couple of years since we first started on the Kikuyu patch that is now our demonstration garden. Over a steady procession of stages through the seasons it has been transformed into a whole new productive ecosystem showing that you can quite rapidly ...

Making black gold

If you’ve been following the Ecovillage horticultural updates, you’re probably well aware of how much we value good compost. As such, in our demonstration gardens we have been making and trialling a few different systems to test the quality of compost made and ease of use. Firstly, what do we use ...

Warming up the garden

Garden Update: October 2020 Over the winter months, the Ecovillage horticulture team has been consolidating its existing projects in readiness for the next phase. It’s good to have the nutrition, weed and pest and disease management programs in place and working well. Much of my focus in the last year ...