Three years after starting a tentative food garden in North-East Tasmania, we are now starting to see the rewards of our efforts. Our garden has grown and changed over this time time and perhaps now is a good time to start a record of our efforts. Our site is an almost untouched half acre, half way up a hillside in an old tin mining town. The soil is good, but shallow and rocky. It has taken time to build the soils and to learn how to garden in this area. I am always surprised at how much the garden grows each year and how much we have achieved in such a short time. 

The summer house last spring when we arrived back from a trip to the mainland, sowing a weedy vegetable garden and a crop of winter growing broad beans.