Building a mandala garden is a great way to break up your garden beds into a riot of living colour, allowing easy accessibility and visual interest. It looks great too. Whilst Filming at the Yandina Community garden with Geoff Lawton we came across this very easy to build mandala garden bed...

Filming with Geoff Lawton on his forthcoming Permaculture Soils DVD is not without its amusing moments. We were filming a segment on community markets and were packing up the camera when Geoff spotted the guttering on this disused old graffiti-lined toilet block in a sports field where the...

This duck water is high in nutrient and is usually thrown away. Rather than throw the water out, Geoff connected the spa to a tap in the kitchen garden to drain off any nutrients. Hooking up a garden hose or watering can and you have a terrific nutrients and additives that the ducks produce to give your vegetables a boost.

"As soon as we get the compost made, we add moisture to it." says Geoff Lawton, "We get heat within one day. Within two or three days we've got constant hot water for six to eight we

"They operate and cooperate together, symbiotically. They both improve the soil in very special ways." said Geoff Lawton.

Normally you wouldn't bat a eye if you saw this in your garden, but in this case we needed to have these shots of bugs and have them as big close-ups in all their High Definition glory!

What a pleasure it was to work with Geoff Lawton on his latest DVD. “Permaculture Soils”, Geoff’s fourth DVD in the Permaculture series being currently produced by Eco Films. Since we last turned up at Zaytuna Farm home of the Permaculture Research Institute, we noticed the...