Huttons Valley Permaculture
Summer Time Abundance
Summer has finally arrived and with it a bounty of produce from the garden. Having already harvested plums from one tree in January my...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Jan 31, 20234 min read
I'm Back!! Monthly blog starts now!! January 2023
Happy New Year!! For all of my original subscribers - thanks for hanging around and for more recent subscribers who may have been...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Signs of Autumn
There are certainly obvious signs of autumn. Cooling nights and the changing colours of leaves on the trees. But there is one sign I...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Mar 30, 20222 min read
Observing and Sharing!
When I'm out in the mornings sometimes a scene will just catch my eye. This shot of the chicken coop with swale, hay shed and hills in...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Mar 16, 20223 min read
The apples are in!
I've been nurturing this apple tree for awhile as it has been really loaded with fruit, but this week was harvest time. The apples are...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Mar 9, 20222 min read
Tomatoes are back!!
Every year you anxiously wait for the tomatoes to arrive then when they hit, you can't wait for them to be finished again. Never happy...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Mar 2, 20222 min read
Preserving the Harvest
Preserving time is quickly ramping up! The warm weather brings with it an abundance in the garden and also out and about in foraging and...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Feb 23, 20223 min read
The good and the bad
What makes one plant, with a beautiful flower, a noxious weed to be cut down and disposed of , but another, with an equally beautiful...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Giving these girls a new home!
I had a message from a friend on the weekend - her mum had an unwelcome little swarm of bees hanging out at her place and would I like to...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Feb 9, 20222 min read
They Love It!
It's amazing how loud bees are when they are en masse in a tree. Every time I walk past this beautiful flowering gum up in my pasture I...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Feb 2, 20223 min read
The stone fruit have arrived!
The trees were all planted about two and a half years ago and these trees are just now becoming productive. Out of the stone fruit trees...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Jan 26, 20224 min read
Hello again!
It's been awhile since I've posted a blog - two months in fact! Why did I stop? Well I just felt I had nothing extra to share than what...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Nov 10, 20213 min read
A surprise!
I've been growing aloe vera for about 8 years or so and had no idea that it flowered but about a month ago I noticed two of my plants...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Getting the basket out again!
While my veggie patch has been very productive throughout winter you can really see it picking up of late. I even had to grab one of my...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Oct 27, 20213 min read
Getting busy outside
Spring colour is certainly abundant now with bursts of purple, orange and yellow all throughout the garden. I really do love this time of...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Soil Appreciation Week!
For most of last week I was either preparing for a soil biology workshop presentation or making a video about soil. Like I developed a...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Love the Spring Colour
When I started my kitchen garden I threw in a packet of 'Wildflowers for Bees'. A mix of seeds for flowers that pollinators will enjoy....
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Oct 6, 20212 min read
First Born
We had a really big rain last Thursday afternoon and into the night. To be honest I was a little worried about the youngest lambs and how...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Sep 29, 20212 min read
Not the usual sign of Spring
I've been sharing quite a lot of images of beautiful flowers, such as the gorgeous apple blossom in the centre photo, or cute baby...
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Huttons Valley Permaculture
Sep 22, 20213 min read
I might get some fruit this year!
My fruit trees are coming into their third spring season and I'm getting hopeful for a crop of fruit come summer and autumn. Last year I...
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