From SAGE member and local vegetable grower Fraser Bayley While on a long overdue family holiday, Kirsti and I were fortunate to hang out in a small town called Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It’s a small rural town with rice paddies and veggie patches right to the main street. Small towns […]
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Thanks to the IMB Community Foundation, SAGE will be launching an even bigger and better “Veggies for All” project in late June 2018. In 2017, SAGE ran a series of 2-hour workshops at various locations within the Eurobodalla that introduced novices to home gardening. The series of workshops was supported with grant funds from the […]
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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 […]
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams As the metamorphosis from autumn and winter begins, and the soil temperature slowly drops, there are many things going on beneath the surface. This underground activity is every bit as important nutritionally as what appears above the ground during spring and summer. Cauliflower Among the most useful vegetables still to […]
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L-R: Jim Caddaye, Mark Barraclough, Geoff Scott, Stuart Whitelaw, Adrian Cram, Richard Pass and Dan Johnson behind the camera (Chris Cameron absent) Have you ever wondered how stuff gets built at the SAGE Garden? Member Stuart Whitelaw explains. The rules on the back of the T shirt read: SENIORS AND PENSION CARDS TO BE CARRIED […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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from SCPA-South East Producers The “Farms with a Future” project, managed by SCPA-South East Producers, has been holding Ground Work Days across the region and is holding one at the garden of 2015/2016 SAGE Market Gardener Intern Sasha Ermichina in Turlinjah later this month. WHEN: 9am – 4pm Monday 26 March WHERE: Leaf and Petal, […]
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams Eating seasonally reminds us that non-instant gratification can be sensational because waiting patiently for each crop is a lesson in joyful anticipation. And there are so many colourful, nutritious and delicious fruits and vegetables in the garden that it’s hard to choose between them! Blackberries – thornless (Rubus fruticosus) The […]
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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 […]
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