Book review – Edible Forest Gardens
At first, the double volume “Edible Forest Gardens” seems like quite a dear investment. Initially I looked at it with great interest, but then only proceeded to put it on [...]
Dreamland
Franny’s farm
So there I was, enjoying to wake up for my 57th birthday to the sound of crowing cocks, sipping a Trader Joe’s organic green tee, overlooking the beautiful valley in the [...]
Don’t duck the tough issues
Although we have been operating using organic and biodynamics principles at Homeland, one of our core goals at Dreamland was to adopt more permacultural approaches. We wanted [...]
Fruit tree planting
It’s been a busy week-end at Dreamland. Very busy indeed. In terms of the over-arching process of establishing Dreamland, this was one of those climax points along the way. [...]
Creating the Dreamland shelterbelt
At the back of Dreamland lies a school and right next to the fence line they have planted a mob of eucalyptus trees. This has left us with a double-challenge – what can we [...]
Extending the olive branch
A few weekends ago, we learnt how to make olive oil the old-fashioned biblical way. No fancy machines, no stainless steel drums, no centrifugal presses. Just us, our great [...]
Best preparations for tomorrow are done today
Over at Dreamland we’ve been doing a lot of preparation to get it ready for planting the bare-rooted trees in a few weeks’ time. While preparing the holes, we’ve also [...]
Digging in
A really crucial step on our Dreamland implementation schedule was to get the holes prepared in order to plant the larger fruit trees over the winter. We needed the holes dug [...]
Clearing the wood to see the trees
We’ve been talking about Dreamland as a “blank canvas” quite a bit, but in reality it was not so blank after all. That canvas required quite a lot of preparation, both [...]
Access to Dreamland
Before we could start creating Dreamland, we had to organise efficient access. Even though Gaë and Pauline (the wonderful previous owners), who are still renting, graciously [...]