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    • 2011 >
      • Project Beginning
      • My Trusty Farm Truck
    • 2012 >
      • Water Harvesting Earthworks
    • 2013 >
      • Stakeholders Gathering - Ending Re-offending Workshop
      • Forestry Prep and Earthworks
      • Development of Training Centre Envelope
    • 2014 >
      • Mobile Lucas mill
      • Raised Garden Bed Construction - Rockwalling
      • Seed ball making the Fukuoka way.
      • Tree Fern Garden
      • Making a Rustic Compost Bin System
      • Contructing a Holzmiete inspired Compost Toilet and Urinal
      • Making Bone Sauce
      • Water harvesting from roof catchments
      • Building our first kitchen garden
    • 2015 >
      • Installing Irrigation
      • Converting the Shearing Shed to Bunk House
      • Building the Pizza Oven
      • Bath House Construction
      • Making the Wwoofers Kitchen
      • 1st Inaugural Earthworks Course
      • A Very White Winter
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.2
      • Building a pumpkin trellis + update
      • Installation of Drip Irrigation
      • Potato Towers - An experiment in vertical gardening
      • Preserving seasonal vege
    • 2016 >
      • How to make a bottled window panel
      • Berkley Compost Pile
      • This seasons harvest
      • Water tank and stand
      • Winter garden maintenance
      • Worm farm build
      • Belladigga "Beautiful Dam" and Swale fills and spills
      • A week in the life of a Tiger Hill volunteer
      • Kitchen Garden Fencing Project
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.3
      • Farm Tour - Water Harvesting
      • Rock Wall Build
      • Building a Broad Fork
      • Planter Boxes
      • Tool Shed Fit Out
      • Pumpkin Patch Sheet Mulched
    • 2017 >
      • Kitchen Fit Out
      • Bath House Wall
      • Chalet Stairs
      • Butchers Block Build
      • Holtzmeter V2.2
      • Installing Drip Irrigation
      • Making the Kitchen Door
      • Garden Bed Build
      • Compost Slide
      • Composting
      • Dining Room Door
      • Dining Table
      • Fertilizer/ Compost Zone
      • Rocket Mass Water Heater V2.1
      • Bath House Additions
      • Bunk House Reno
      • Chicken Caravan Build
      • Ramp and Stairs
      • Workshop Benches
      • Nursery Construction
      • Bunk House Heater
      • Kitchen Atrium Build
      • Orchard Implementation
      • Planter Box V.2
      • Milk Crate Planters
      • Kitchen Garden Tour
    • 2018 >
      • Preserving the harvest
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Tree Fern Garden

One thing this project is endeavouring to do is to demonstrate cycling of nutrients in the soil as well as recycling of resources and repurposing many unwanted items.

The south east end of the house has many tree ferns growing there and is a nice cool place to be. I plan in the future to attempt growing mushrooms among these tree ferns as it is also well shaded. Within the garden is access to underneath the house. I want to retro fit this under house area in the future as a cool room/cellar. It has a good all year climate. With numerous Tiger Snakes in the area I have always been wary to walk in this areas as it was unmaintained.

I had collected resources in the way of cardboard, cement pavers,fence frames,house bricks and cement bricks over the past 3 years and with several very energetic volunteers visiting via HelpX I saw the opportunity to use the resources and recycle the collected cardboard back to the soil. The cardboard will help keep weeds at bay and eventually rot down feeding the soil.Once the cardboard was laid down,a thicl layer of mulch was put over the area.The cement bricks were put down along the path as a planter pot for plants in the future.

I purchased some sand and crusher dust to form the foundation under the cement pavers and used some recycled house bricks to level the path up. The following photo log was taken during the tidy up of the area.

Finally,I set up two sprinklers that spray water from the Biolytic overflow system.
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