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Helping You Live a Healthy + Abundant Life by Growing Your Own Organic Food + Connecting with Nature

How to Make a Vegetable Garden… ‘Instantly!’

Lots of Sprouters are prepar­ing to make their own organic veg­etable gar­dens and I’m so inspired by their enthu­si­asm!!! Here’s an impor­tant tip to save you time, stress and money when it comes to get­ting started. I’ve men­tioned before the suc­cess of your gar­den will largely rely on the qual­ity of your soil. Under­stand­ably that knowl­edge can lead to frustration …

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What Cirque Du Soleil Reminded Me About Gardening

[I wrote this last Fri­day night in my hos­tel room in Los Ange­les] With all this focus on get­ting rid …

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How to Maximise Your Garden After Rain

This morn­ing is the first in what feels like ages where I’ve woken up to sun­shine instead of rain. It’s glorious. …

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The Truth About Pests in My Garden (and what I do about them)

I’m not sit­ting on some high and mighty moun­tain where pests don’t exist. In this video I share the truth …

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How to Get Rid of Pests with Organic Pest Control

Firstly, THANK-YOU Sprouters for your enthu­si­as­tic, thought­ful and help­ful responses to the Sprout Annual Sur­vey. I’m going to be stuffing …

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FREE Seed Give-Away!!!

I’m back!!! I’ve had a fan­tas­tic hol­i­day camp­ing down the east coast and now I’m refreshed (although cur­rently swel­ter­ing in …

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How to Make a Pond

In the past few months I’ve had mul­ti­ple requests from Sprouters to show them how to make a pond. So …

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3 Questions to Ask Before You Install a Pond

There’s no doubt installing a pond is one of the best things you can do to attract ben­e­fi­cial insects, frogs, …

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Gardening as a Spiritual Practice (+ how to remain sane when dealing with your internet service provider)

Ok, Ms. Chatham. Please press the paper­clip into the tiny hole, then turn off the modem.” “Ok, it’s off,” I say. “Good. …

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What is Permaculture: Part 3

Cecilia Macaulay, the gor­geous Per­ma­cul­ture designer and illus­tra­tor, called me yes­ter­day. “How have you been?’ I asked, excited to hear …

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The Truth About Self-Sufficiency

I was in town the other day when my friend Rach rang. She’s recently bought a a block of land …

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