Abdallah House - Redesigning a Home

After being assured by the organisers that they would feature our place in promotional material, I decided to go all in with another SHD. I figure it's a good opportunity to show people how our established low cost permaculture property functions.  The way it works is a bit different this year. With the one $15 ticket you can visit multiple properties by setting up your own 'tour'. Unfortunately, there's not many other properties in our region that are participating. Cooee Park  in High Camp or Clearwind in Glenhope aren't too far away (if you've got a car) - so you might want to check those out too. You can get to our place by train. It's about 1km from the station. Our place features as one of the case studies in David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia , which was released back in 2018. So if you are familiar with the book you can see how our place has evolved over the years since then. It's a hands on 'manual' on how you can live a more self-relia...

Garden helpers at The Centre in downtown Seymour I decided to step up and focus more effort into food production in 2025. Of course, putting more effort in and seeing the results takes time. The effort has been in making better use of the marginal garden beds, by making use of the 3 cast iron baths I've had sitting around for years, getting seedlings in regularly / early and revisiting soil mineralisation - which was last done in 2012, not long after we moved in. The wicking sleeper beds have been performing well, and I decided to separate the produce results from our home garden so we can keep track on how that's going as well as have a easy way to determine how our home garden is going compared with results from previous years.