Category Archives: SAGE internship

2018/19 SAGE Market Gardener Intern Kylie Emmett and her mentor Kat Cathcart in front of the cover crop that will soon be turned into the garden as green manure. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to introduce our next intern, but another year has flown by and another cycle of market gardening is about […]

From 2017-2018 SAGE Market Gardener Intern Leanne Nicolle Sitting down in the garden to write my little piece on being the 5th intern while overlooking the growing green manure. Thankfully, this year Trevor Moore wrote a fortnightly blog on what I had done in the 17/18 growing season… I can’t help but feel very impressed […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore The SAGE garden is moving into hibernatory mode. At least, much of the greenery of the last few weeks has served its time, the produce has been harvested and sold. Yet it has more time to serve for it will now help with restoring the soil for the next intern. […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore I look forward to visiting Leanne at the SAGE garden every couple of weeks because I always receive such a cheery welcome. She says that she never knows what she’s going to talk about and yet for twenty minutes or half an hour I say nothing (which is a rare […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore No market gardener can expect to ply his or her trade without the use of analytical equipment. I was not, therefore, surprised to find Leanne slaving over what Charles Babbage would have called an analytical engine. For some reason, as you can see in the picture above, the computer (as […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore I found Leanne in pensive mode when I called to see her this week. “I am going to be doing my final planting,” she said to me, “probably next week.” Her internship is coming to an end. She’ll be sad to leave but she knows the end of one chapter […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore The SAGE garden is a riot of greenery. Well, perhaps the word “riot” suggests a certain lack of randomness and disorganisation. That is not what I mean to imply; rather I mean that there is green everywhere and that, to my simple mind, suggests a productive garden. Leanne, of course, […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore The SAGE garden is a riot of green and I found Leanne weeding. While I have been away swanning around Éire she has been hard it trying to balance helping with the milking at home and keeping on top of the garden. She’s worrying about the soil; it’s gone clumpy […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore I have remarked in previous blogs about Leanne how happy she always seems to be and today was no exception. I found her weeding … and happy in spite of this Sisyphean endeavour. She had taken her eyes off the ball last week and, given the recent rain, she was […]

From SAGE member Trevor Moore It was pretty hot this week when I turned up to see what Leanne was up to. She loves being her own boss and deciding her own priorities, even though the work never lets up. And she’s outside. She told me she had spoken to her friend in Sydney who […]