Central Coast Edible Garden Trail
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Greenheart Garden

Showing visitors the chickens. Photo credit: Lisa Haymes
Visitors chatting under jacaranda. Photo credit: Lisa Haymes
Pond for wildlife and biodiversity
Protection from wildlife in Permie Life garden

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Cottage style edible garden with perennials, annuals and fruit trees interspersed. Vertical growing and wildlife protection in use, chickens with deep litter system, ponds and food is free verge garden.

Sunday opening hours

9:30 am

To

4:00 pm

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Story

Now a Permaculture education space hosting regular Permaculture Garden Workshops and our Permie Kids program (see events), we’ve been working on our garden for 12 years and discovered permaculture 6 years ago. This completely changed our approach to gardening (and life!) with the realisation that what really needed doing was to improve our extremely sandy soil. We’ve been implementing my permaculture design bit by bit, mostly working on improving the soil with homemade compost, green manures, a deep litter chicken system, so much mulch and a lot of love and care! It’s a long process but its paying dividends. Slowly we have taken over the lawn adding new beds every year and my original design has morphed and evolved.
My garden style is a mix of perennials and annuals in a cottage style layout with small fruit trees interspersed. It’s a beautiful mess! As the weather becomes more and more unpredictable we’re working to make our garden more resilient to excessive rains and long dry spells. We’ve introduced a new drainage system including deep woodchip trench pathways, repairing the sodden soil, and building up our caged raised garden beds again.
We’ve recently added more fruit and nut trees, and are continually using chop n drop and sheet mulching no dig methods to build soil and fertility. We are slowly building plant guilds around all of our fruit and nut trees, some of these will be in place for the Trail. The chicken tractor is a hard worker in the garden, constantly on the move and leaving behind rich manure.
Each week, Hannah and Anna take turns putting in a few hours work in each others gardens (stay tuned for Hannah’s garden in future Trails!). Using our combined creativity, permaculture skills and techniques, plant knowledge and pure enthusiasm, we’re so proud of how its coming along. I’m really looking forward to sharing my garden with visitors!

Safety

Stay on marked paths, not wheelchair accessible, steep mulched pathway to enter.

Tour Times

We'll be holding short 15 minute talks at 11am - Deep Litter Chicken System, 1pm - No Dig Garden Beds, 3pm - Guilds - creating plant families,

Events

Greenheart Garden hosts regular Permaculture Workshops on Saturday mornings from 9-12pm – upcoming workshops include:
22 March
Your Food Garden – Autumn/ Winter
24 May
Soil Building
20 June
Hugelkultur Garden Beds
2 August
Guilds – creating plant families
23 August
Sourdough Bread Making
6 September
Your Food Garden – Spring/Summer
18 October
Gardening on a Slope
15 November
Verge Gardens – a garden to share with your community
Tickets are available via Humanitix.
Greenheart Garden also plays host to our Permie Kids program each week where groups of primary aged children come along to learn all about growing food, permaculture and to interact with nature and its diversity in the garden. This program has been developed by Anna and Hannah over the last two years and is an absolute joy to behold. You can find out more about Permie Kids here