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The Edible Forest Garden story

Edible Forest Gardens nursery is a nursery with a difference.  Everything is either edible or at least beneficial to your garden.

 

    We encourage you to walk around enjoy and experience the plants we have on offer, this is the Edible Forest Garden Nursery.  With helpful friendly staff who deliver old fashioned service, are available for advice and ideas for your garden. The staff can take you through the nursery which will delight your sences, picking edible flowers and unusual vegetables encouraging you to smell, taste and experience the plants as you never have before. This is to help you decide what you want to purchase.

 

    John Ferris has been in horticultural since 1977 gaining experience in landscaping, garden maintenance and design owning and operating his own business since 2002.  After studying with Dr Elaine Ingham (soil food web) and doing his PDC (permaculture design course) John's  passion for organics and sustainability become more of an obsession. Realising that traditional methods were not working, John decided to do something about it.  He has encorporated all of this knowledge he has gained through these years into the operation and running of the nursery.

 

    The nursery, though not classified organic, only uses organic potting mix and fertilizer, no chemicals are used in the production of our plants.  The water is from tanks or the dam and recycled back through the system so there is no wastage.

 

 

Our Story

Ghekos and lizards.

 

These beautiful gentle reptiles are wonderful in the garden, eating insects, snails, slugs and spiders.  We have a large blue tongue lizard and some very pretty ghekos who enjoy the warmth.

Friends in the igloo's

Spiders

 

Love them or hate them there is no denying the benefit in the garden these amazing insects have. They are kept in balance by the lizards and birds.

Frogs

 

Wonderful musical amphibians

help keep the bugs at bay.

Birds

 

During the warmer weather when we keep the igloos open we quite often disturb the little insectiverous birds feasting on the bugs.

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