Hot Days of Hard Work: Building a Permaculture Garden on our Rainforest Farm

This week on the farm, so many amazing things have happened. We got that first, magical feeling of summer, and we’ve been working hard on our permaculture duck garden! -- planting and sowing seeds just in time before the first summer, monsoonal rain comes rolling in over the hills. And, most excitedly, we welcome someone really special into our big animal family. With the seasonal changes, and this cuddly boy, everything feels like a new beginning.

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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia — caring for a regenerative farm on Bundjalung Country on the East Coast of Australia. We have a dream to build a self sustainable future and regenerate the land for generations to come. Join us as we learn to build, farm, garden, and care for the animals and land.

We live and farm on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal people of the Bundjalung Nation and these practices of regenerative living, agriculture and permaculture owe their roots and theories to Indigenous knowledge — they have been practiced by Indigenous People around the world for so many years. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on, and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.

Music by The Riverside
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"Rolling Grasslands", "Ancient Sleeper", "Windmill at Kairos", "Early Morning / The Giant Athos" and "Snow Giant" from the album "Snow Giant"
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Chapters:
0:00 Planting in the rain and special introductions
5:29 Hot day swimming
9:07 Sowing seeds and propagating
12:42 Harvesting and cooking black sapote bread
16:51 The coming summer, dangerous wildlife and our maremma dog!
22:54 Painting in the studio
28:44 Building a gate from recycled materials