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25.01.2022 Nasturtiums, one of THE most powerful antibacterial plants readily available, the leaves,flowers and seeds are all edible and have a beautiful slightly warm pep...pery taste. This plant is nature’s antibiotic, it’s antibiotic qualities have been found in studies to be effective against some microorganisms that are resistant to common antibiotics helping prevent coughs,colds and the flu. One leaf eaten per hour as soon as you get a sore throat can drastically reduce the severity of the infection and help with healing. Super high in Vit C but also high in Vit B1,B2,B3 and Iron. Plant these gorgeous plants in your garden as they are amazing helpers,releasing a special essence into the soil which is absorbed by other plants helping them to resist attacks by pests and diseases. Studies have shown nasturtiums to be most effective when fresh so toss them into your salad to boost your immune system and get yourself ready for those winter lurgies. Brilliant for this time of the year. See more

22.01.2022 Tune in, folks!

18.01.2022 EDIT: We did it! We reached our target! Thank you everyone for your kind shares and comments, and to the following contributors for their generous donations: Mirella Mani, Danny Kinnear, Fiona Borrelli, Doralinda Giudici, Leif Bloomer, Amy Doran, Brenna Quinlan, Rayna Fahey, Sonia Shima, Karri Fdi, Veronica at Continental House and 2 anonymous people. We are feeling so grateful to you all! x Hi everyone, HRN has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover their annual insurance fees so they can keep running free events and services such as our three community food gardens to help build community resilience and food security. Please donate if you are able. Thanks so much.

17.01.2022 #growfoodeverywhere

16.01.2022 "A rising international force of rebel botanists armed with chalk has taken up street graffiti to highlight the names and importance of the diverse but downtrodden flora growing in the cracks of paths and walls in towns and cities..."

14.01.2022 So you have a million rolls of loo paper and now you don't know what to do with all your spare time? Gardening collectively is not just good for soul and soil but it also helps strengthen community resilience and wellbeing by ensuring chemical-free, nutrient dense food is available for everyone. The Daylesford Community Food Gardeners are having their monthly working bee this Saturday from 10am - 12pm at the garden beside the library. If you can please bring hand tools, bales... of straw and autumn seedlings. This is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend.

12.01.2022 A post on Gardening Australia fb page, from Liam Foley: Hi everyone, A few months ago, I dug up a "curl grub" from my veggie patch. Most people kill these lit...tle guys but being the insect lover I am i decided to keep it. Usually I'll just move them somewhere else but I wanted to raise this into an adult so I could show everyone here what these little guys turn into. As you can see, it was a Christmas beetle. Please stop killing curl grubs, there is no need, just move them somewhere else or raise them into adults yourself, they're important parts of the ecosystem and it's very sad that I keep seeing less and less of them every year. EDIT: Lots of people are asking how I raised it. Just get a tub with some ventilation holes in the lid. Fill it with soil and a bit of compost. Leave it somewhere out of the light where it won't be disturbed and check every week to see if there is a beetle scratching at the lid! IF YOU WANT TO SHARE THIS POST PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK (it's a link to the post on my profile so that you can share it): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=814484158977379&id=100012474061379 See more

12.01.2022 Wonderful! Thanks Kat!

11.01.2022 Missed the last working bee and want to see and read what we got up to? Here's our blog post...

11.01.2022 Hey gardeners, do you have spare greens growing you can donate?

10.01.2022 Shared by Michael Shawn Fletcher: "Indigenous Plant Use" by Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston from the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences. It is for families, schools, community groups. Download it and get out in your garden today!... Such a powerful statement about the depth of knowledge in the Kulin Nations. Indigenous plant use In 2019, the University of Melbourne was transformed by the breathtaking influx of 40,000 Kulin Nation plants as part of the Indigenous-led event, The Living Pavilion. These plants were accompanied by signs, carefully researched and curated by Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston, which articulated the plants from an Aboriginal perspective and explored their cultural, nutritional, technological and medicinal use. The plant research was so popular that many participants contacted Zena wanting to access the information. The new 'Indigenous plant use' booklet was created so people could continue learning. In the booklet, you'll find information on more than 50 indigenous plant species displayed on labels that you can print and use in your own garden. https://nespurban.edu.au//2020/08/Indigenous-plant-use.pdf

09.01.2022 Thanks to all the folk who have been watering the garden over the past month. The seeds we planted in early Jan have come up and some of us have been back to weed around these seedlings. Our next working bee is this Saturday (tomorrow) at the Library garden between 10am and 12 noon. Compost turning, seedling planting, weeding and watering and netting some of the fuji apples outside the library will be the main jobs. If you have surplus seedlings and a spare bale of straw ple...ase bring. Also weeding tools and buckets are handy. Hopefully see you all tomorrow morning. Patrick

09.01.2022 Please join us for our first monthly Working Bee since March. We'd love to see you between 10-12 noon this Saturday, 12 Dec. Please bring hardy herbs, sun flowers and perennial food plants (rhuburb, Thai basil etc.). We also need a bale or two of straw, or bags of natural wood sawdust. If you'd like to contribute but don't have the time you can make a donation to the Daylesford Community Food Gardens account at @Wombat Hill Nursery. Hope to see you there.

09.01.2022 Guilds help plant growth all round.

07.01.2022 Would you like to work towards food sovereignty in our shire while having a really fun time? Please join us at the library garden for our monthly working bee this coming Saturday from 10am - 12pm. These are the seeds that we can sow directly into the soil in Feb in our bio-region:... beetroot carrot chicory chives coriander fennel lettuce pak choy parsnip peas radish rocket (Arugula) silverbeet spinach tatsoi turnip If you have seeds for any of the above pls bring them along. See you then!

06.01.2022 Thank you Giulia for making this film at yesterday's working bee. And a huge thank you for everyone who showed up to harvest, plant, sow, water and share.

06.01.2022 "My late grandmother lived through poverty, wars and military occupation if you had asked her how to prepare for hard times, she’d grab a spade and start digging a vegetable garden. If things really get bad, the garden growers will be better prepared for the future than the bunker stockers. If you planted the likes of spinach, Asian greens, snow peas or cabbages this weekend you’d be knee deep in homegrown fresh produce within a month or two, and it could last you all through winter."

03.01.2022 Have you always dreamed of being an organic orchardist?

02.01.2022 A beautiful song for this moment in time.

01.01.2022 What better place than here... What better time but now... Tune in Friday on The Perma Pixie page for a free intro class to foraging edible wild food and medi...cine. This is an offering to assist people and bring a sense of empowerment to our hands, some kind of autonomy to our lives. It feels good to know how to feed and nurture yourself. I will be sharing identification, recipes and properties in this and future videos to come. May we learn to nourish ourselves deeply, rest, become savvy and responsible, frugal yet rich in life and remember the important things <3