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Drylands Permaculture Farm

Working with Nature in Our Drylands

Welcome to our Farm

Located in Geraldton, in the Midwest of Western Australia we demonstrate the practical application of Permaculture and environmental conservation.
We operate as a not-for-profit environmental organisation – The Drylands Foundation.

Our enterprises that fund our work in conservation and sustainability include a propagation plant nursery, heirloom seeds and garden honey hives.

Permaculture Nursery

Local native and multi-use plants for Geraldton and the Midwest Western Australia

Yilgarn Seeds

Non-GMO, Open pollinated vegetable and herb heirloom seeds; and endemic native seeds

Garden Honey

Harvested by hand from our Bees that forage from our Permaculture Gardens and Native Tree Crops

Latest News

2025 Season Announcement

Farm and Nursery – Out of Season Hours 2024-2025

Heirloom Seeds – Pricing 2022

As of Monday the 17th of January, 2022 we are increasing our seed packet price this year to $6.00 including GST. Our seed production cost in the drylands has significantly increased over the past 10 years and we are...

Somewhere under the rainbow…

Thankyou to our volunteers and team at Drylands for helping out with the cob render of our strawbale common room

Seed Variety Availability

Heirloom Seed Sales outside of Western Australia

Flowering Shrubs on our Farm

Flowering Hakeas, Sennas and Grevilleas Shrubs around our Permaculture Farm.

We offer environmental education and sustainability training as Permaculture practitioners, tours and are hosts for ‘Willing Workers On Organic Farms’ (WWOOF) and HelpX.

Learn

Learn more about Permaculture as a workshop participant, volunteer or WOOFer/HelpX work exchange member.

Contribute

Participate and make a Difference to our Drylands and communities as a volunteer, subscriber or supporter of our social enterprise.

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Yilgarn Seeds’ largest heirloom Broadbean variety.
They are a long pod variety whose seeds are double the size of commonly known broad beans.
We originally sourced these seeds from Len from Jurien Bay, who had been growing them for many years. I met Len, years ago when he walked into the nursery with two 20 litre buckets of dried broad bean pods. He dumped them on the house deck, they were the biggest pods I have ever seen. Len’s first words to me were” I heard you preserve old varieties of vegetable seeds. Can you grow these out and make them available to other gardeners for me?
Len is one of our heirloom Seed-saving Hero’s. He and many others have spent endless hours in their life growing, harvesting, and slowly acclimatising (through selection) these varieties to local conditions. Varieties such as these would be otherwise be lost forever.

Www.yilgarnseeds.com.au
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Look amazing! Just harvested ours recently for a creamy pasta with speck. Delicious seasonal treat!

I'd love some of these

Did you know..
That a bunch of broccoli is actually thousands of flower buds that transform into seeds once pollinated.

Here is how we harvest the seed!🥦

If you are interested in starting to grow your own
heirloom broccoli-Verdante seeds or others, click the link below!

drylands.org.au/farm-store/seeds/vegetable/broccoli-verdante/

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Contact Details

Drylands Foundation
333 David Rd (North), Waggrakine
Geraldton,Western Australia 6530

Tel. (08) 9938 1628
Mob. 0458 38 1628
Email.

ABN: 60 163 754 943

Opening Hours

Please Call  0458 38 1628

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Drylands Foundation

The Drylands Permaculture Farm, is managed by the Drylands Foundation, a not-for-profit environmental organisation.

The Foundation utilises the Farm, to promote and demonstrate environmental sustainability and conservation through social enterprise.

Photo: Flamefruit Cactus © J. Firth 2006

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