A suburban block of one-sixth of an acre, the Garden of Sel was designed around Linda Woodrow's Permaculture Kitchen Garden concept. In such a garden, fruit trees are mixed in among the intensive vegetable beds, and chickens are tractored through those beds and trees, adding to the totality of the garden.
With over fourteen fruit trees, assorted wicking beds, worm farms and composts, water collection, a native beehive, and chickens, the garden provides a broad variety of edibles for the household. These include eggs, leafy greens, and herbs all year around, and additional fresh fruit and annual vegetables through the spring and summer (and into the autumn and winter with preserving techniques).
In the last year, Sel has successfully grown cauliflower, cabbage, and broccoli, potatoes, avocadoes, and garlic. In addition to her usual fruit-full season of nectarines, peaches, and early apples, she has managed to grow a (single) apricot, and a (single) plum – unfortunately, rats and possums have done significant damage to the harvests.
It is, as always, a work in progress.
