VEG’s landscaping team has been flat out recently and our pipeline is so full we might have to enlarge the pipe! Here’s a few piccies of some systems we completed in the last month.
Eaglemont
This project involved the full-scale permaculture makeover of a front and back yard, including a driveway, all paths, a front-yard food and ornamental forest, a pergola, two sheds, a greenhouse, a chook house, a duck house, a duck pond, a large orchard, seven raised VEG beds, a berry patch, a rainwater tank, some lawn, an ornamental pond, and much more. We visited today and so many of these photos are hot off the press!
The design:
A ‘before’ shot of the backyard (showing the spot where the VEG beds and greenhouse below were to be located):
A sequence of shots showing the main VEG beds (topshelf cypress) going in, with VEG greenhouse in the background:
On September 27 2011:
On November 6 2011 – a lot of growth for just over a month!:
The (VEG custom) chook house:
Chook automatic watering system:
Duckpond (fed by tank overflow and in turn feeds orchard):
Fully enclosed fox, possum & bird-proof orchard – with a green manure crop of oats & vetch going nuts (the chooks arrived yesterday and will soon convert it into eggs and manure):
August 10 2011:
September 7 2011:
November 6 2011:
Pond with fountain and food plants including Lebanese cress and water chestnuts (and yes that’s right a little bit of lawn – apologies to Bill Mollison!):
Tank:
Raspberry and Blueberry Patch:
Front yard with a nice mix of edibles and ornamentals (yes there is room in permaculture for pretty stuff!):
Broadmeadows
First up is some metal raised beds for an early learning centre in Broad Meadows a few weeks back, with young Will from VEG looking on:
Eltham
Next here’s the design and some implementation shots of a partial makeover in Eltham that we finished just yesterday!:
The design:
The chook house:
The strawyard:
The VEG chook tunnel connecting the strawyard to the run:
Where the tunnel meets the run:
Looking from the chook run down toward four roughsawn VEG beds:
The chook run/orchard. These customers had already planted their fruit trees in what turned out to be the perfect spot! Note the braced cypress gate – it’s really worth getting your gates right as you use them so much and you spend more time patching up a make-shift gate than you do doing it properly from the start:
A roughsawn VEG bed with a dressed and stained bench seat:
Mt Eliza
And let’s finish up with a shot of a system we put in some time back in Mt Eliza. Dan drove past a few weeks back and it was good to see happy chooks, ducks and vegies. In particular to see that our fox-proofing efforts had paid off (there are many foxes at large in this area):
