Welcome to Our Farm
Working with Nature in our Drylands
Welcome to our Farm.
Located in Geraldton, Western Australia we demonstrate dryland Permaculture and environmental conservation.
We operate as a not-for-profit – The Drylands Foundation.
Seeds
Non-GMO, Organic vegetable and herb heirloom seeds
Plants
Locally grown for Geraldton and our Midwest
Garden Honey
Chemical Free, Hand Harvested Honey
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Permaculture: Sustainability by Design
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About Us
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:
Drylands Permaculture Nursery
Local native and multi-use plants for Geraldton and the Midwest Western Australia
‘locally owned, locally grown’
Garden Honey
Harvested by hand from our Bees that forage from our Permaculture Gardens and Native Tree Crops
‘Chemical Free, Hand Harvested Honey’
Yilgarn Seeds
Non-GMO, Open pollinated vegetable and herb heirloom seeds; and endemic native seeds
‘Protecting regional biodiversity and food security’
We offer environmental education and sustainability training as Permaculture practitioners, and are hosts for ‘Willing Workers On Organic Farms’ (WWOOF) and HelpX.
Tours of our farm and volunteering opportunities are available for individuals and organisations interested in learning more about Permaculture and sustainability in drylands environments.
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My favourite green, Italian Bledon Spinach (technically a chard) - this is a relation to the Silverbeet. I have a bundle of seedlings ready to plant. This lime green chard has less oxalic acid in it than silverbeet and can also be eaten raw. Unlike Silverbeet it doesn't leave that strange feeling in on your teeth after eating it. Its a wonderful colourful species to have in the vege garden. We also have lots of YIlgarn seeds (our locally acclimatised seeds) available to plant. In Geraldton its time to get peas, carrots, bush beans, cauliflower, broccoli, mizuna, lettuce, broadbeans, winter herbs (parsley, dill, mints, coriander, fennel, oreganos, thyme, rocket, etc..) , annual flowers and onions,
Open Sunday
333 David Road Waggrakine
Local plants, local people, local wisdom.
June 16th, 8:12 am
Do you sell these as seeds??
Anybody interested in Henna leaves? We are pruning our trees this weekend and you are welcome to the branches and the leaves. They are free for the taking. 1st in 1st served. They can be dried, crushed or blended to a powder and used as a hair or skin dye. Used alone these are an orange/gold/brown colour dye. We also have seedlings available if you want to grow your own. Depending on how cold it gets in winter, Henna loses most of its leaves and bursts again when the weather warms up in spring. They usually grow as bushes to the ground, we underprune ours to grow veges beneath.
Nursery open Sunday 10.00am to 5.00pm.
333 David road, Waggrakine
Local plants, local people, local wisdom.
June 8th, 8:09 pm
Heather Pepper
Kerrie Elliott
Rachael Ferris
Yeh interested please
Debbie Westropp
Kim Tetlow
Bridget Baldock
Do you send any via post in WA?
Jaybird - for Kiah?
Let your plants look after each other. Nursery is open today Sunday.
June 2nd, 7:49 am
The big Marigold plant.
This year we are devoting part of our garden to African Marigolds. Our sandy soils are full of root knot nematodes who affect the growth of certain vege crops, here they mainly affect tomatoes, celery and beetroot. I have just read an interesting paper which describes one of the ways Marigolds protect these plants. It claimed that when nematodes attack the root of the marigold, the root releases ozone, a bio-nematicide thereby killing the nematode pests (Ogden, 1997).. Fascinating stuff...
We are open tomorrow Sunday. 10am - 5.00pm
Local plants, local people, local wisdom.
June 1st, 7:35 pm
We use marigolds for pest control! Bugs won’t go near them, or any plants they are next to! Wonderful things!
Might spread a few about here Julie although our tomatoes seem trouble free atm Lots of bother though from citrus leaf minor and ants are being a pain
Maybe the person who keeps stealing my one year old marigold plants from the community garden read the same article
Lisa Massey
Where about are you at
Try Santolina as well
Mustard and nasturtiums and marigold 🙂
Martyn Dicken Jodie Dicken 👍🙂
Martyn Dicken Jodie Dicken 👍🙂
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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. info@drylands.org.au
Opening Times
Sunday 10am to 5pm
or by appointment
Drylands Foundation
Drylands Permaculture Farm
333 David Rd (North)
Waggrakine, Geraldton
Western Australia
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