Food Forest Garden Timelapse - Year One

See http://www.happyearth.com.au for more info

We're on an adventure in urban sustainability, exploring how we can retrofit a typical house and lawn into a healthy, efficient home with an abundant food garden.

Watch how we've turn our backyard of lawn and concrete into a flourishing food forest.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• happy
• earth
• sustinable
• illawarra
• organic
• gardening
• permaculture

[NinaThePitbull]

i wish people would stop talkign about the stupid pool. you couldnt use it for much. way too big to make it an aquaculture project without turning your yard into a sciance lab. then youd need a way to keep the squirrels, racoons etc. other wildlife away.

any livestock is such a laborious task. hence the reason for a food forest, food with less labour involved ( youll never get food with no lablor, doesnt work that way)

f##k the pool, awesome food forest!!!!

[ourhappyearth]

@NinaThePitbull Add to the fact that we pretty much eat vegetarian.

[jellyfishbones0]

great, but its not a food forest (no trees), its a mandala bed

[ourhappyearth]

@jellyfishbones0 Your half right - mandala vegie beds in the foreground, background is the beginnings of a food forest. Look carefully and you can see the grass being remove, ground covers sown and planted, then along come pioneer shrubs and trees (only 1m tall at this stage after a year so a bit hard to make out).

[aihlo]

if you left the pool you coulda done some aquaculture too!

[ourhappyearth]

aquaculture is not much good for as we eat vegetarian at home. Plus, it was the ideal spot for a vegie garden getting full sun all day long in the winter time.

[tadlee]

you're very tidy

[TheWwweee]

@sarcasticcomment yes

[sarcasticcomment]

Didn't there used to be a pool there?

[OurHumbleLife]

NICE!!!

[AbattoirDream]

its good, but i would have put the pool to good use and built around it instead of wasting it.