“Feel free to pick the ones dangling over the fence.”
Permaculture principle 8. Integrate rather than segregate.
“Native bees source nectar-rich flowers and provide honey as a delicious bush food. Stingless bees are also good crop pollinators and a great addition to the Manly Vale Community Garden.”
Permaculture principle 10. Use and value diversity
“Start ‘em young, really young, so it’s lesson #1 - grow some, pick some & leave some.”
Permaculture principle 8. Integrate rather than segregate
Permaculture Principle 10. Use and value diversity.
“It’s a backyard of earthly delights, when you slip on through the tamarillos.”
“All my raised beds have berries on the side, this one using the 3 sisters as well.”
Related to permaculture principle: 11. Use edges and value the marginal.
“Artichokes in centre of raised bed creating diverse food forest with oregano on edges and Asian greens around centre happily self seeding”
Relevant to permaculture principle 10. Use and value diversity
“Wash the kale before use!”
Relevant to permaculture principle 1. Observe and interact
“This abstract compost composition of fruit fiber came from a friend’s juicer.”
“Our big black compost bin breaks down all our waste and grass clippings to make wonderful mulch the garden loves so much.”
“Self seeded pumpkin over recycled pram from Kimbriki...”
“Insect hotel waiting for guests.”
“This is the first garden of my food forest garden. It is the most productive all year round due to the constant water and nutrient delivery from the house through sub-surface irrigation.”
“Boysenberry”
“The wild rocket has bolted and the bees love it!!!”
“Produce from my garden.”
“I had fun building an up-cycled tipi, from old marine rope and timber ladders, for the kids and my future passionfruit.”
“I like the feeling of the grain whilst walking barefoot along the railway sleeper maze to sow, water and harvest out of my long reef backyard.”
“Taken by my apartment’s front door on the edge of Allenby Park in the early morning, the many overlapping webs were too pretty to not try and capture. The diversity of birds, lizards and other little critters we observe in this area between nature and suburbia on a daily basis is amazing.
Observation, observation, observation!”
“A great growing space as well as a space for the office workers to eat lunch, reduce their rubbish via the worm farm and even have meetings. No more rubbish just interest and smiles from passers by and better neighbourly relationships.”
“This was taken in my backyard in Elanora Heights recently. The native bees were particularly active this day and were swarming. I managed to take this beautiful pic. I like the soft focus haze. All those little white blurs is the sunlight reflecting off the little bees.”