Recently when filming with Permaculture gardener Rosina Buckman, we asked her how she managed to grow her amazing vegetables in her raised bed gardens without importing a lot of expensive soil. These tanks were raised off the ground and faced a sunny spot right out at the front of her house....

Rosina Buckman’s front garden is right out on the suburban street. A number of corrugated colour-bond Zincalume planter beds dot her front garden. Rosina is keen on growing food in her raised beds. Lettuce and herbs spill out of her tanks as she exuberantly explains how she keeps the...

Recently when we were filming Murray Hallam and Milne Matthews talking about their aquaponics systems, the conversation turned to their wicking beds that they both used for growing root crops. Although water is mainly used in conventional dirt gardens, Murray and Milne were also using fish...

One of the more contentious issues surrounding aquaponics is the mineral density of the plants and vegetables that are grown in aquaponics. Critics say how can plants grown in Aquaponics be really nutritionally balanced with all the minerals and vitamins necessary for you if the nitrates they...

Ever wonder what happens to all the portions of uneaten gourmet restaurant food? Chances are it ends up in landfill somewhere. But a new Noosa resort restaurant is changing all that. Bistro C upmarket food waste is being delivered to worm farms and chicken coops located nearby. The...

While filming with Tania Coppel about her story on compost toilets we spotted this ring of bathtubs all under wire netting. They reminded me of a ring of wagon trains circling round like in a cowboy Western movie protected by a wire netting to stop the possums for eating the produce. The only...

Building a cheap but effective worm farm in a bathtub is a great idea if you also have an aquaponics system or a vegetable garden close by. The fish can always benefit from a tasty snack of live worms. But if you only want to get rid of your household kitchen scraps, a bathtub worm farm is...

One of the great tips in the Permaculture Soils DVD is how to use chickens to do a lot of the composting for you. We all know chickens like to scratch and break the pest cycle but did you know how to harness chickens to direct their scratching to create compost for you? One of the little...

Here’s a fast way to build a vegetable garden directly on grass or lawn without digging. Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton demonstrates this method on his farm and has been using this method for years with instant results using discarded cardboard packaging, junk mail, newspapers...

A few years back we put this short video clip up on YouTube with Permaculture Schools Gardening expert Leonie Shanahan talking about her worm tower. Well the idea seems to have caught on as little colourful worm towers are now springing up everywhere in the Permaculture landscape. While...