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You don’t need expensive gimmicks or complicated systems to grow food at home, but you do need the right advice – advice that’s thoughtful, proven, and based on science.

I help people in temperate climates to create productive kitchen gardens using permaculture-based methods that are easy to implement. I refer to a lot of my gardening practices as “do nothing” gardening!

Whether you’re starting from scratch or trying to make an existing garden more productive, I can help you to grow food with more confidence and less guesswork.

There’s nothing quite like picking fresh food from your own backyard and putting it on the dinner table. Through regular newsletters, written Q&As, workshops, consultations and garden design services, I’ll show you how to create a productive, enjoyable edible garden that suits your space and lifestyle.

Based in Kyneton and working throughout Victoria, I offer:

• a free monthly newsletter packed with advice, updates on my own garden, and lists of what to plant in yours right now (sign up here)
• weekly in-depth reporting and one-on-one advice for paying subscribers, covering my scientifically designed gardening trials and loads more, with all your food gardening questions answered (sign up here)
• the Vegetable Patch from Scratch series, a detailed look at everything you might want to know about growing vegetables (if you’re not sure where to start, start here!)
• workshops on a range of topics including espaliers, composting and growing great tomatoes, held in the classroom and garden of my property in Central Victoria
• two-hour consultations in your own garden to help you with the when, what, where and how.
• garden design services so you can get it right the first time.

Read about my journey and get to know me here.