Places Which Inspire Me

I recently attended a family wedding in Brisbane, and while there I was fortunate enough to have time to go visit the Northey St City Farm located in Windsor. If you have the time I highly recommend visiting, as not only are they an inspirational mecca for edible gardens, they also have a wonderful organic farmers market that runs each Sunday, and a plant nursery which is open Thursday to Sunday where you can buy most of the plants you see.



Master E and Master A amongst the Oldham's bamboo, which is used for timber and has edible shoots.



A ice-cream bean tree. I have one of these in my backyard.
 

A sea grape which produces large grape like sweet-acid fruit.



A Brazilian cherry, another tree that is growing in my backyard.

A wax jambu, I looked at one of these trees and decided against buying this as it reminded me too much of our pesky lilly pilly.

A curry-leaf tree. I am a bit worried about where I have planted this now at home!

A cherry guava. I have two guava trees in my backyard.

Various vegetable garden beds with companion plants.

Master A looking into the chicken coop.

I love this worm farm. The city farm worm farm is much bigger than mine.

There were lots of plaques with valuable information that could found around the city farm gardens.

Native bee's!

Hand Stamped Vegetable Garden Markers

The beginning stages of the food forest.

My most gorgeous daughter stamping utensils for me.

A spoon transformed into an Atherton Raspberry marker.

A knife transformed into a Starfruit marker.

One of the things I love being able to do after a long day at work, is being able to sit and look at the food forest that I have been creating with the help of my family. Over time I am hoping that our food forest will provide us with a plentiful supply of fruit and vegetables that we will no longer need to buy from our local supermarket.

As a way to keep track of our 60+ edible and medicinal plants, I have reused some old utensils purchased from the tip shop and hand stamped the names of the plants on them. I have to say, I am pretty impressed by the results and happy because, we all enthusiastically got involved in the process.

Learning How To Knit

Knitting is a skill that I have always wanted to learn but never really understood, so I felt incredibly blessed recently when a beautiful friend from work came to visit and taught me the basics of learning how to knit. In our first lesson together my friend - who was taught by her mother how to knit, showed me how to tie a slip knot and how to cast on. After much practise both casting on and pulling stitches out, I can say with a degree of certainty I have learnt a new skill. The next step will be learning how to knit the knit stitch which will enable me to finally think about making knitted dishcloths!