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
Learn
Permaculture: Sustainability by Design
Contribute
Participate and make a Difference to our Drylands
About Us
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’
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Geraldton's best kept secret.If you need advice on what to grow locally or would like to pick up locally grown natives & edible plants - Drylands Permaculture Nursery is open until 5pm on weekends.
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July 6th, 7:23 pm
Drylands Permaculture Nursery updated their business hours.
July 5th, 9:47 am
Good Morning Geraldton peoples. I am not sure about this cold, but one thing I know is the winter vegetable garden loves it.
We have grown a few special fragrant herbs this year that you may be interested in if you want to repel snakes from your garden.
Many years ago, I visited a Permaculture project in Gaborone, Botswana where local Permaculturists had set up a demonstration site with gardens around a hut/house. This was unusual here as typically the people who lived in these huts would keep the ground clear (no gardens) and swept clean in order to detect and manage snakes. This project was to show locals how snakes were repelled by Impatiens and other fragrant plants.
This year we have grown these fragrant herbs that grow extremely well at our farm and may be one of the reasons we haven't seen snakes in our food gardens in thirty years.
- Blue Lagoon Rosemary - a weepy form with a blue indigo flower,
- Rue - Jackman blue - a small compact plant with striking blue-grey strongly scented foliage
- Sage - grey foliage with lilac purple flowers
- East Indian Clove Basil bush - Hardy 1.5 m green perennial shrub with clove tasting leaves.
- Lemon Grass - 75cm
- Rose Geranium- 1m
- Vetiver Grass - 2m
- Mints, peppermint and ruffled
- Wormood - 1/2 -1m
- Sage - 75cm
- Palestinan oregano/Zaátar 1/2-1m
Open Saturday and Sunday 10-5.00pm and by appointment during the week. Phone Johnny on Mb 0458381628
333 David Road,
Waggrakine
Local plants, local people, local wisdom.
July 5th, 9:30 am
Comment on Facebook 1481876362029482_2537648286452279
Excellent advice Sally We used to do the same in Sri Lanka.
Do you sell the vetiver as well? I was looking at getting some from over east.
That’s interesting Julie! 👍🙂
Do you have any old man salt bush bush for sale
Caz Awel and Sharon Peta few ideas for your scaley mates
Karlina Piggford
Noleen Batanas
Kai Jacques
Amy Maughan
Jarrad Spencer
Ned Williams I think we should visit
The Drylands Permaculture Farm updated their business hours.
May 27th, 10:10 am
Opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning.
May 27th, 7:38 am
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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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
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Contact Us 0458 38 1628
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
