In this June edition of E-News you can catch up on whats reopening at the Farm as Covid-19 restrictions continue to ease and check out a couple of new developments. Read HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK HERE. You will receive the […]
Edible Flowers
By Ronni Martin. NSCF Education & Support Team Manager Bring colour and interest to your garden and plate by growing edible flowers. Edible flowers can create a colourful show in your front garden. Or they can be distributed through your vegetable beds or around fruit trees where their other uses in attracting beneficial insects and […]
Homemade seed raising mix
By Michael Wardle, NSCF Adult Education Co-ordinator One of the things when having your own garden is the ability to keep it going through sowing your own seeds. While some seeds benefit from a direct sow into the garden bed, many survive and thrive when they are planted in seedling trays first. While you can […]
Summer Earth Kids 2019 – 3 Day Program
Earth Kids is about supporting children to become ‘nature smart’ – to have the knowledge, understandings and skills to engage in creating a more sustainable world – in a fun and interactive way. This is an experiential week of outdoor discovery in which kids will learn about the animals and plants at the Farm through […]
Forest Gardens
The Tree Care Group of volunteers have been renewing the plantings in the various orchards and forest gardens around our site over the last couple of years. These gardens are along the Northey Street boundary and to the west of the allotment garden area. So, what is a forest garden and how does it work? […]
Bushfoods for permaculture gardens and farms in the sub-tropics
Adding local bush foods to your garden can add new flavours to your diet while sustaining wildlife as well. There is a native plant to fill almost every purpose from food to fiber to timber, and they come in all growth forms from vines to giant trees. The lists below will help you to find […]
Gardening with guilds
By Lydia Blocksidge, City Farm Nursery Co-ordinator Have you heard the term garden guild or guilding before? If you have, it’s probably been used in the context of agro-forestry and forest gardening, as this is where the concept is most commonly applied. Guilding is a Permaculture technique that recognizes the relationships in nature, especially in […]
Leafy Greens alternatives to lettuce during hot summer months
Summer means Brisbane gardeners have to be creative with their salads. Lettuce, english spinach and other greens are hard to grow. Take a look at leafy greens. Darker leafed lettuces, and open hearted ‘cut and come again’ varieties will last a lot longer than cos or iceberg types. We can also use perennial leafy vegetables, […]
Sub-Tropical Greens
During the cool season, Brisbane gardeners can grow silverbeet, kale and cabbages. However, there are a myriad of subtropical leafy greens to turn to when the weather is too hot for these winter annuals. Surinam spinach is a crunchy and tangy, drought hardy plant. It is very ornamental, with clusters of small pink flowers. Brazilian […]
Worm Farm to keep composting worms
To keep your worms happy, you can buy a commercial worm farm, or make one from recycled materials. Worm farm container The container needs to be pest proof. It needs to have drainage and air holes. Bedding material can be shredded paper and cardboard (not coloured or glossy), cocofibre, dried leaves, or […]
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