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Out of Season Hours 2023-2024

Out of Season Hours 2023-2024

It is that time of year again, when we seasonally close our Nursery for walk in sales until April 2024.

We do have some limited stock remaining that your can check our on our Nursery Plants page or order online for local pick up via our Store page

As usual I am a phone call or text message away on 0458 38 1628 if you wish to drop by and we are closed to help out.

Our stock list and store page is updated regularly as stock is sold.

Over summer we’ll be continuing to work on our strawbale education building, new raised heirloom seed garden beds and composting area while maintaining the farm, selling and harvesting our heirloom seeds – Yilgarn Seeds.

Thank you to all our customers, supports, volunteers and team for your continuing support and interest in our work. Johnny (JB)

Heirloom Seeds – Pricing 2022

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 now reflecting this in our pricing to continue being a viable social enterprise.

The seed we sell continues to be harvested from our Permaculture gardens. It is acclimatised to our climate’s seasons, is non-GMO, organically grown and open pollinated.

The revenue we derive from seed sales continues to be invested in the maintenance and development of our Permaculture demonstration farm and educational facilities.

Thank you to all our existing and new customers for your ongoing support and interest in our heirloom seeds and Permaculture enterprise.

Seed Sales Limited

Seed Sales Limited

Due to very high demand we have restricted our seed sales over the past month to customers only in Western Australia; and limited seed quantities per order and per household.

We will be reviewing our seed order limits as orders are received and processed, and as we grow and harvest from our gardens.

We may need to temporarily close our online seed sales store as we catch up on processing seed orders.

When ordering please check that the seeds you order are suited to our current season. Our seasonal calendar provides a general guide and viewing the products will provide you with individual recommended sowing times.

As our summers become extended in length, it is wise to keep an eye on weather forecasts to avoid planting in  periods of high temperatures or have your irrigation and soils prepared.

Please keep an eye on our website and facebook pages as we provide more links and information on seed saving and growing techniques over the next few weeks.

Don’t forget to save your own season for next season.

Flowering Shrubs on our Farm

Flowering Shrubs on our Farm

We regularly walk around our farm to see what is growing well on our sandy soils, and it is often a great time to take our camera to get a few shots of plants in flower, foraging birds and insects.

This time of year, with recent strong winter winds, it is also a chance to check for wind damage to plants or whether they need pruning back from our fencelines. 

Many of the species we grow in the nursery are grown from seed we collect from our farm. This allows us to get photos of the plants to use for our plant and seed product pages. They are also a great resource as we can show  people what the nursery plants look like in the real with a quick walk around the property. It works wonders as people can see how they grow in our climate.

This season, with good rains and plenty of sunshine a lot of plants are looking great including:

Drummonds Bridal Grevillea (Grevillea argyrophylla). Also known as the Silvery-leaved Grevillea, a great two metre screening shrub with a massive display of white flower and a favourite spot for Punky our female emu to hang out.

On part of our eastern boundary we have combined Limestone Wattles (Acacia sclerosperma),  Sennas (Senna artesimioides sp. ‘Fine Leaf’) with Red Poker Hakeas (Hakea bucculenta) as screening, windbreak and landscape shrubs.  Our emu who likes to regularly walk the fenceline keeps them clear of weeds.

Pink pokers (Grevillea petrophiloides) , Austin Senna (Senna sp. ‘Austin’)  and Bacon and Egg Shrubs (Bossiaea spinescens)  are always spectacular and grow well on our poor, sandplain soils with no additional fertiliser. We rabbit guard and water these plants to establish them over the first summer and then they are on their own.

We grow all our own seedlings here in our Permaculture Nursery, so drop by and pick up some of these fabulous plants and more for your own property and garden.

Revegetation on our Permaculture Farm

Revegetation on our Permaculture Farm

Revegetation of our demonstration farm grounds with local endemic species is one of the activities we have done for many years to transform a run down rural property into a resilient, peaceful and healthy place to live and work.

As a Permaculture enterprise we work to accomplish multiple benefits from everything we do, and our annual revegetation and landscaping efforts are a great way to apply and promote Permaculture.

Using our nursery stock we design and plant to provide multiple functions including windbreaks, bee fodder for our ‘Garden Honey’ hives, native fauna habitat, screening from road noise, seed sources for our nursery propagation, trialling plant ‘thrivability’, and show case our fabulous Midwest flora.

Many of the photos we use for our nursery labels and website come from our own property, and if we are short of time we can just go for a short walk to check out what plant species are coming into flower and seed; and how well our plants are growing.

This 2018 winter season, we have planted out mostly screening shrubs and lower growing flowering plants, on eastern areas near our entry gates including: Cape Burney, Mingenew, White Peak and Oakajee Lace Flower species, White Spike Bottlebrush, Umbrella Bushes, Weeping Acacias, Emu Bushes and Ribbon Peas.

If you are interested in the plant species we have used, take time out and come to nursery and farm to find out what plant species would suit your needs.

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