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Little Harvest Edible Gardens

Little Harvest is about helping others on their journey to creating self sufficiency in an urban environment through plants. Harvesting a lot in a little space.

Evolving a food forest & veggie garden. Using hydroponics, containers, garden & wicking beds for organic produce Little Harvest Edible Gardens is about creating self sufficiency in an urban environment with minimal space. Located in Fremantle, Australia with an ever evolving edible food forest and veggie gardens. Using a range of methods to grow better produce: hydroponics, container growing, gard

en beds and wicking beds / pots for delicious organic produce. Complete with chickens, composting and worm farming. Aiming to use as many recycled materials as possible for everything in the garden, trying to reuse and repurpose. Starting with the chicken coop being built from 98% recycled materials (bolts and chicken wire were new) to making my own wicking pots from 100% repurposed items. Always learning, teaching + adapting to current times, while trying to be sustainable. My goal is to showcase what can be established in a small space, be made from the produce harvested and the gain from the feeling you have when you taste that delicious, organic food that you grew. Taking the fear away so you can see the rewards from the fruit of your labour. You too can grow your own harvest in any size available that you have.

21/04/2024

My triple grafted pear tree has produced its very first pear, and isn't it a beauty!

Can't wait to dig in 🍐🍐

12/02/2024

What a beautiful flower!

My cactus (I think it's a Cereus jamacaru) has had one flower starting to bloom with two buds coming up behind it.

07/02/2024

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12/10/2023

Summer veggies have been planted and are going very well!

This is a new raised garden bed I installed, along with irrigation to make it easier for watering in Perth's hot summers.

There's a lot of veg crammed into this garden bed filled with only the good soil from and lupin mulch.

As they grow, I'll build a trellis for the ones on the edges to make it easier for picking and pruning.

07/10/2023

My elderflower (Sambucus canadensis) is looking very beautiful at the moment with its big clusters of white flowers.

The fragrant flowers are followed by the blue berry like fruits which both have many medicinal and edible uses, as well as repelling insects and creation of a black dye from the bark.

It is a wonderful plant with many uses, just remember, never eat the fruit raw! Uncooked fruit contain cyanide inducing glycosides and can be extremely toxic.

Medicinal uses:
🍃High concentration of compounds known for their antioxidant activity
🍃 Have greater potential health benefits than blueberries and cranberries
🍃 Higher content of Vitamins A, C and B6 than other berries
🍃 Teas and tinctures made from the bark and fruit used for many ailments, such as stomach ache, constipation, diarrhoea and acts as a laxative and diuretic
🍃 Used as a topical application to treat fungal and bacterial infections, bruises, skin conditions, and as an anti-inflammatory application for wounds
🍃Traditional uses also include sore throats, coughs and respiratory infections, where it is thought to reduce swelling of mucous membranes
🍃A tea to assist with cold and flu. It also combines well with peppermint and yarrow to make the popular blend YEP tea for colds and flu.

Culinary uses:
🌱 The flowers can be covered in batter and made into fritters
🌱 Soaked in water to make a drink or dried flowers can be used to make a pleasant tea 🌱 The fruits are popularly cooked or made into syrups for pies, jams, jellies, sauces and other desserts
🌱 They can also be added to other food, such as bread rolls once made into syrup.
🌱 Wine, beer, cordial land other drinks may also be made from the berries and the flowers used as decoration in desserts
🌱 Elderberry syrup can be made from the fruit and used on pancakes or added to water for a nice summer drink.

The options appear to be endless, I cannot wait!

01/10/2023

Great little weekend camping 🏕️

The pooches were very well behaved and loved it, they didn't seem bothered by their frishy friends at all.

11/09/2023

Spring is a wonderful season 🌼

The flowers on my super dwarf nectarine are a show stopper. Such a bright and wonderful colour amongst all of the green.

I can't wait to bite into a juicy nectarine!

02/09/2023

A little basket I made out of raffia 🧺

I'm quite impressed with my first attempt at weaving a basket. It's something I have wanted to learn for a little while now out of garden materials, I thought I would start with something easier to get me going.

Next attempt will be a gathering basket for the upcoming summer veg season, stay tuned!

27/08/2023

Getting a good spark to start the fire with my ferro rod 💥🔥

24/08/2023

Viola cornuta are a multipurpose plant for your home garden, either your vegetable patch or ornamental space.

Here are a few reasons why:

🌼 Attractive to pollinators
🌼 Great bedding plants
🌼 Beautiful to look at with a soft scent
🌼 They're edible!! Both the leaves and flowers can be added to salads for pops of colour and flavour
🌼 A delicate garnishes on almost any type of dish

20/08/2023

What a wonderful weekend spent camping 🏕️

24/07/2023

We had such a wonderful time canoeing in Dwellingup on the weekend.

It's a truly magical place, even the pups enjoyed it.

We stopped and had lunch at Charlie's Flat, a perfect spot for an upcoming camping trip 🥾 🏕️

I cannot wait to get back there.

14/07/2023

How am I supposed to work under these conditions? 😂

This dear hen is of the opinion - work smarter not harder. Chookie chook was waiting for me to dig the trench to get her worms, definitely not afraid of the pickaxe.

Trying to help with her irrigation installation at - both me and then hen 😂

28/06/2023

Freshly picked tangelos 🍊

My little tangelo tree has produced 3 this season, not bad for only being a season old! Even Daisy is excited 🐾

Can you spot the small tree amongst the Nasturtiums? I barely can 😅

My evolving food forest is coming along, slowly but surely.

22/06/2023

Feeling the pink vibes while enjoying the scenery

17/06/2023

Surveying our beautiful land from the top of a mountain.

So soothing being in nature, especially somewhere as magical as here.

04/05/2023

An old window starts the revamp of this long neglected area.

Embarrassingly, this window had been sitting in this spot, which was a sand pit for about a year (or more). Finally, it went up, a Buddha's Hand (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis) and pine bark mulch went in.

The window is a working progress, but at least it is up and is inspiring for more work to be done to it.

The self seeded nasturtiums are setting in amongst it all, the almond is still holding onto its leaves for now and the native guava is going strong!

28/04/2023

I love the revamp of one of my otherwise useless garden bed into something better.

This area was quite neglected and full of Mother In-law Tongues (Dracaena trifasciata) and half dead Little Ruby's (Alternanthera dentata).

Once I cleared those, in went a multi-grafted citrus - half Mandarin and half Cara Cara orange. To grow up our old gate a Native Lilac (Hardenbergia violacea), garlic and leafy greens in the raised beds.

The Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum) are popping their heads up throughout the mulch. I have to admit, I do let them go a bit feral and self seed to grow everywhere.

My garden transformation is well underway. Stay tuned!

27/04/2023

How can you possibly make the bed with this face staring back at you?

23/04/2023

Taking in the fresh country air 🌳🌳

04/12/2022

The photos don't do this native bluebell (Billardiera heterophylla) justice.

Not only does it have these delicate little clusters of pale purple / blue flowers that look beautiful, they also serve a purpose.

The purplish blue colour attracts bees into the garden to help with pollination throughout. Then, after the flowers have displayed their beauty, edible green berries arrive that darken with age and can be eaten raw once ripe, has an apple taste.

12/11/2022

Enough garlic to keep the vampires away.

Home grown Italian pink garlic planted in Anzac Day and harvested on Remembrance Day.

They're not overly huge, but I am still so happy to have grown my own.

I may attempt to make some black garlic if I'm game enough.

08/11/2022

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They may have been small, but these homegrown potatoes were just delicious.

I made them into smashed potatoes in the air fryer, along with lemon myrtle honey roasted carrots for dinner.

Nothing beats the taste of homegrown.

05/11/2022

My little urban farm doesn't have a lot of garden beds for all the edibles I want to grow.

This isn't a bad thing, as I get to experiment with different ways to grow food.

Through upside down tomatoes, wicking pots and hydroponics.

I have a large hydroponic set up, but these small buckets are also great. They can be moved around to suit their needs of the sun and they are pretty easy to maintain.

As the bucket is small, the growing solution does need to be checked and topped up often, similar to fertilising your garden in the growing season.

Daisy the mini pin also loves to help me garden ... And eat it too 🐾

09/10/2022

Saturday was a perfect day for a bit of a bush walk at Noble Falls.

My husband found a beautiful trail with a waterfall where we could take the dogs.

The trail was lovely and had some of the best Kennedia prostrata (running postman) growing that I've ever seen.

The CLM in me did wince at all of the weeds but it was still well worth the walk, an afternoon well spent.

Along the walk, we were chatting about how the dogs would be exhausted afterwards ... We all were 🤣 had a good old nap together when we got home.

It's amazing how much you forget that going for walks like this is such a reset. It's been a little too long since I've done one.

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