Drylands Permaculture Farm
Working with Nature in Our Drylands
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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.
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Yilgarn Seeds
Non-GMO, Open pollinated vegetable and herb heirloom seeds; and endemic native seeds
Garden Honey
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We offer environmental education and sustainability training as Permaculture practitioners, tours and are hosts for ‘Willing Workers On Organic Farms’ (WWOOF) and HelpX.
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Nursery Visits by Appointment Only This Season 🌿
Hi everyone,
This year, the nursery will be open by appointment only.
We’ve mainly grown native plants to order, so there won’t be many extras available. This shift has given me time to focus on something really special—our strawbale teaching building. It’s turning into a stunning, functional work of art, especially as we finish the clay plastering currently featuring one of our local grevilleas “ THE DRUMMOND’S COVE GREVILLEA.”
We do have a selection of larger exotic plants available, including:
🍒 Brazilian Cherry
🍮 Custard Apple
🍋 Lemongrass
🌍 Marula
🥦 Moringa (Drumstick Trees)
🍇 Mulberry
🍍 Pineapple
❤️ Pomegranate
🌾 Vetiver Grass
You can check sizes and prices on our website: www.drylands.org.au
I’ll be featuring these plants over the coming weeks, but for now, here’s a sneak peek at what we’ve been creating with our clay plasters over strawbale—it’s earthy, hands-on magic!
Want to visit the nursery?
Call Johnny on 0458 381 628 to book a time.
333 DAVID ROAD, WAGGRAKINE.
Please park by the blue mail box, walk in and close the gate behind you as we have animals that don’t know the road rules.
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so beautiful. you are creating a sanctuary from mindless fast consumerism and showing that people can be creators of meaning and wonder and beauty and detail. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
SOLD OUT ..UNLESS WE HAVE UNPICKED UP BAGS, WILL LET YOU KNOW IF WE HAVE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
We have just released our Organic Purple Hardneck Garlic cloves for planting. This happens once a year. Phone Johnny on 0458 381628 for pick up.
This is a great variety that we have been growing, acclimatising to the Geraldton winter season, and selecting for potency and size over the last the last 18 years.
Garlic likes to grow in cool weather and takes around 5-6 months to mature. It needs constant moisture and fertile soils to do well. I will be planting ours in a couple of weeks once I am happy the hot weather has dissipated. I store the planting garlic in a paper bag in the fridge. This stops it drying out and is said to give you larger cloves. Last year I also soaked them overnight in a mix of diluted Seasol and had super fast germination.
We have small bags of 25 cloves available for home gardeners. $10.00 per packet. Limit 2 per customer.
Check out the fb videos on our page as to how we plant our garlic if you need help.
Nursery will only by appointment this year as we haven’t grown our normal range of natives But do have a range of larger plants that you can view on our website. Www. drylands.org.au
Garlic will be available on a first in, first served basis.
When you arrive, park by the big blue mailbox and walk in. Please close the gate behind you as we have farm animals inside.
333 DAVID ROAD, WAGGRAKINE.
Mb: 0458381628 Johnny
Local plants, local people, local wisdom.
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SOLD OUT EVERYONE!
Love what you have done! Recommend Tasmanian Gourmet Garlic for great webinars on all things garlic! 💜💚
We just robbed the bees again, this time with the help of one of our new volunteers Hannah. This batch of honey includes nectar from our from honey locust trees (one of my garden curses due to its root system) but it is forgiven once a year when we harvest this honey. The flavours are superb, not too sweet, slightly malty with a nice acid balance. My kind of honey!
We have glass jars for sale, mostly 975g jars for $20.
If you are thinking this raw honey would make a nice gift, you could bring out your own decorative jar and we could fill it for you.
Call Johnny for pick up on 0458 381628.
333 David Road, Waggrakine.
Park by the big blue mailbox and walk in. Please close the gates.
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Awesome!
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
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