The safety and well being of the tree depends on how it is cared for!

1.) It should not be watered constantly. Once established they can be left to the mercy of the rainy season. This encourages the growth of a deep tap root and thus greater stability for the tree.

All food waste is valuable, the easiest way to turn it all into good soil is with Bokashi Composting.

Kathy Yu’s garden on an 800sq meter block in the back streets of Derby is a striking example of what is possible for an ordinary household to achieve in sustainability and growing a constant supply of healthy nutritious food.

The easiest way to bolster our soil is to cultivate fast growing plants that can be chopped and dropped onto the garden beds without paying for costly inputs such as mulch or hay or compost.

Bokashi is an easy way of getting rid of your kitchen/catering scraps and converting them to high quality fertilizer for your garden.  

The other wonderful part of mung bean seeds is that they are the most nutritious easy to grow bean sprouts. You don’t have to have a garden or soil or fertilizer all you need is a glass jar and fresh water.

In the Wet there are several very nutritious plants that can fill the garden beds and provide us with fresh greens for salads or cooking, and at the same time protect the soil and keep weeds in check.

If you have lots of weeds it means your soil is ‘alive’ with lots of micro-organisms and other little critters.

Tony & Sharon Gavranich have lived in Derby for a very long time. They bought their 5 acres in Hamlet Grove when the subdivision was first created and built a most beautiful house of mud brick from the pindan on their block. Their garden that has evolved over the years is a striking example of beauty, productivity, sustainability and regenerative design.

“I want to pick up my basket, walk out the door and come back with a minimum of 20 species and the nutrient diversity that represents, sometimes I’ll eat it straight off the bush. I’ll literally walk through the garden grazing. By the time I’m done, I’m done, no washing up, no storage. That is true convenience.”

When the build up comes in September it’s good to have on hand some seedlings of ‘support’ species such as moringa, sesbania, pigeon pea, Mexican daisy, and Gliricidia Sepium.

Wicking beds are based on the principle of storing water for plants to access over time thus reducing the need to water, usually they are made with a gravel base and water pipe leading directly to the gravel with an over flow outlet to keep the content from getting soggy.

Tips to transition from the end of the Dry into the Wet Season

Some strategies to ensure your garden is:

Low maintenance Sustainable Regenerative in nature