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Permaculture in Action
$45.00 incl. GSTUse the permaculture system for better living
Do you yearn for a simpler, more abundant life? A life where you provide more of your own food and produce less waste? Permaculture provides practical, “do-able” solutions for living lighter on the earth, using a design process that works with nature. Whether you’re growing food on a balcony or a farm, permaculture will help you create the lifestyle you long for.
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How to Grow Subtropical Fruits Masterclass
$25.00 incl. GSTWant to grow subtropical fruit?
Would you love to add some of these exotic, delicious, interesting plants to your garden, but you’re not quite sure how to start?
In this 1.5 hour online Masterclass, guest presenters Paul Daley and Andre Madeira cover all the basics of creating the right environment for subtropical plants – even if you don’t live in the subtropics!
Drawing on an understanding of original food forest cultures, Paul and Andre explain the principles and practices of establishing a custom-designed food forest that suits your lifestyle goals. They take you through the steps required to create a thriving backyard food forest, and show you how to scale it to suit your situation, whether you want a single food forest guild based on just one fruit tree, or are aiming for a full-scale food forest.
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Growing a Small Farm Business Masterclass
$19.00 incl. GSTStarting a small farm business
Are you dreaming of running your own small farm business, but haven’t yet figured out how to answer the eternal question:“How can I make enough money to support myself and my family, while following my farming passion?”Then look no further – this is the masterclass for you! -
Introduction to Permaculture Masterclass
$25.00 incl. GSTLearn permaculture basics
Have you heard of permaculture, and want to learn more about it?
Many people think permaculture is just about learning to grow food sustainably by working with nature and natural patterns. But permaculture offers so much more.
It can also help you radically redesign your life to be more resilient, sustainable, and enjoyable.
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Bee Friendly
$0.00 incl. GSTDo you want to make your garden as bee-friendly as possible?
This planting guide for European honeybees and Australian native pollinators by Mark Leech is invaluable. It’s a well-researched guide to the appropriate species to plant your climate is cool, temperate, humid, or arid.
This guide is chock-full of advice for creating bee-friendly gardens, urban areas, streetscapes, and rural settings. It includes a wide range of herbs, shrubs, and trees, both edible and non-edible.
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Bee Bundle
$44.00 incl. GSTThe Bee Bundle includes everything you need to understand how to create a beautiful, biodiverse garden that will naturally attract bees and other pollinators.
Attracting bees to your garden will help to pollinate your fruit trees and grow better crops. But growing a mixture of flowering plants also helps you and your garden in other ways. The resources in the Bee Bundle will help you to:
- attract beneficial predator insects that help to keep pests under control;
- improve diversity in your diet by growing edible flowering plants under your fruit trees;
- understand the amazing connections between fruit trees and the plants, soil, and microbes that grow beneath them;
- choose flowering plants that are best suited to your climate;
- add to your fruit tree collection to ensure every tree has the right polliniser “buddy”.
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Fruit Tree Pollination Guide
$37.00 incl. GSTThis handy guide lists pollination partners for hundreds of common (and uncommon) fruit trees, giving you the information you need to select the right trees for a fruitful backyard orchard.
Pollination partners for fruit trees are one of those things that most gardeners have heard of, but few really understand! Knowing if your tree needs pollination can be a complete mystery. It’s one of the ‘hidden’ reasons for fruit trees failing to produce fruit.
Many fruit trees need a compatible partner nearby to help them set fruit — it’s nature’s version of matchmaking. In this guide, we demystify how pollination works, explain which trees need partners (and which don’t), and help you choose the best pollination companions for a thriving, productive home orchard.
The guide includes:
- Definitions of common pollination-related terms;
- Things that can affect pollination;
- Stages of flowering;
- Order of blossom times for deciduous fruits;
- Pollination needs for different types of fruit trees;
- Comprehensive lists of pollination partners for most common varieties.
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Comprehensive Guide to Fruit Ripening Dates
$37.00 incl. GSTThis is one of our most useful resources! It includes the ripening dates (and order) of hundreds of common fruit trees to guide your tree selection. This guide makes it possible to choose the right trees for almost year-round fruit harvests while avoiding gluts and fruit ripening at inconvenient times.
The actual date that a variety ripens for harvest can vary wildly. It’s affected mainly by your climate, but also microclimate and the conditions of each season. The beauty (and usefulness) of this guide lies in the fact that regardless of where you live, the order of ripening of different varieties stays about the same.
This guide includes ripening charts for:
- More than 200 apple varieties
- More than 60 apricots
- Ripening sequence for blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries
- 75+ cherry varieties
- Over 50 varieties of citrus, including lemons, oranges, cumquats, mandarins, grapefruit, and tangelos
- Almost 200 varieties of peach and nectarine
- 200 varieties of pear and quince
- Almost 150 varieties of plum
- Harvest sequence for subtropicals, including avocados, custard apples, feijoas, figs, mangoes, and mulberries.
This is just a selection of available varieties—there are many thousands of fruit tree varieties available in the world. In this guide, we’ve focused on trees that are likely to be available for you to buy. Wherever possible, we’ve included trees from many of the well-known nurseries around Australia, and in some cases overseas as well.
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Pollinate & Harvest Bundle
$69.00 incl. GSTGet more fruit, for longer!
The Pollinate & Harvest Bundle combines two of our most popular garden planning guides — Pollination Partners and Fruit Ripening Dates. Used together, and alongside the information you note down about your existing fruit trees, these handy guides will help you get the most out of your garden.
The focus with this bundle is choosing the right fruit tree varieties, matching them for perfect pollination, and extending your harvest as long as possible. Whether you’re planting new trees or making the most of the ones you have, this bundle is your shortcut to bigger, better, longer-lasting harvests.