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Hands to Earth Creating backyard food security and ecological, resilient systems in peoples' homes. Consultation, Edible Landscape Design & Installations.

13/06/2026

Our Backyard Food Sovereignty workshop is coming up, and there are only 5 spots left!!

Come learn how to grow food and live regeneratively 🌱

We’d love to see you there 💚

08/06/2026

Thinking ecologically vs industrially when solving problems in the garden.

Once we learn some eco-literacy, we begin to understand ecosystem dynamics and can work with the system instead of against it.

Nature always wants to grow things, so fill the niches with things you want and your weeds will pain you less.

Grow gardens that are layered, from groundcover to canopy, with things that you want. These desired plants will do your weeding for you by outcompeting them.

27/05/2026

Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop 🌿

June 20th & 21st in Crescent Head.

Join us for a weekend of creating food security and closed-loop systems at home.

We’ll be diving into annual gardening, homestead design, food forestry, chickens, worm farming and mycoregen.

Our amazing homestead hosts will be cooking us a home cooked lunch from home grown goods from the land.

More than half the tickets have sold! Hope to see you there 💚

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20/05/2026

Bananas as a multifunctional plant within a food system 🌴

Bananas are an amazing food source, but they’re also fast growing pioneers that can act as a resource for your food gardens in many ways.

These fast growing trees hold a lot of moisture, and their stems can be used for edging beds to prevent erosion, and also to hydrate beds. If the stems are cut in half and placed face down, they act as a slow drip irrigation system, giving the soil underneath it water for up to 3 months!

This is by far one of my favourite agroforestry hacks I’ve ever learnt.

11/05/2026

The good old chop and drop method, the best for in-situ mulching and fertilising.

Plant biomass trees in your garden so that you have an ongoing source of carbon, nitrogen & other nutrients to keep your gardens, fruit trees and food forests healthy & happy.

Pigeon pea, comfrey, nasturtium to name a few of my favourites 🌿

06/05/2026

Soil is the foundation of a food system, so keeping your soil healthy will guarantee a thriving garden.

A step that is easily missed is the soil. People become so focused on the plants that when a problem arises, they usually forget about the soil as the foundation and use top down methods instead of thinking from the ground up.

When your soil is healthy, your plants are healthy and less vulnerable to pest and disease. When your soil is unhealthy, that’s when pest and disease is more likely to strike.

So preparing the soil is a very important step, whether it’s a veggie garden, or a food forest or anything in between.

Happy gardening! 🌿

01/04/2026

If you haven’t got a worm farm then what are you doing?!

A worm farm is an amazing addition to create closed-loop systems in your home - it not only breaks down your waste but it provides you with some of the best fertiliser to keep your garden going.

This took me under an hour, and I spent probably $50 for all the materials - and you could do it even cheaper if you wanted.

Once up and running, worm farms are low maintenance, without a bad smell, and you end up actually saving money by turning your waste into rich fertiliser that’s high in micro and macro nutrients, beneficial microbes and growth-promoting hormones, in the form of worm castings and worm juice, yummmyyyyy 🪱

26/03/2026

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