Moonrise Permaculture

Our property: Moonrise Sanctuary

We are based in a beautiful small town called Bunyip, 80km east of Melbourne.
We have been here since November 17, 2005, just 47 days after seeing it for the first time. We were greeted on our first night with a beautiful yellow full moon, rising between the trees, and so the name Moonrise Sanctuary.

Andy and Tamara share their acre with their dog Neville, 3 indoor cats, 11 chooks, 5 Campbell ducks, 2 muscovy ducks and 2 geese. Other residents include a blue tongue lizard and a striped marsh frog in the vegie patch pond. We have pest and predatory insects in good balance and we are visited by Yellow Tailed Black and Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, Galas, Magpies, King Parrots, Wagtails, butcherbirds and finches.

We sell eggs, laid by our happy hens and ducks.
We also sell herbs, vegies, fruit and flowers. For a weekly listing of ours and other Bunyip produce visit my blog:
http://bunyipbackyardproduceexchange.blogspot.com/

Our house was the homestead for a property that used to run all the way from Wattle Tree road to the highway. Our acre was subdivided off from the remaining paddocks in 2005. The previous owners still own the land around us cut hay every year.

This is our first and only hay cut (we are still using it!):

Our empty canvas
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To ease soil compaction, we deep ripped, twice over winter and then ploughed.
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In 2007, we started digging swales and running swale workshops!
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We used a ditch witch to get our swales deeper into the clay:
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Then we planted our windbreaks and nurse trees at the inaugural BULG planting day!
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Then the heritage apples went in
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Then our heritahge nectarines went in
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Swales v fields
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See lots more pictures of our place at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/boodicusducky/sets/