Natural Harvest Ecology

30/12/2025

25/12/2025

Starting small!
I travel a lot between communities, and live in accommodation that has no permanent resident, just transient workers like myself.
Most people don't invest in sustainability solutions when they're transient. Understandable out here when we're 175km from the nearest town making simple food gardening a logistical challenge.
On my walk this morming, I brought back a couple of rusted steel tins, and I've half buried them in the drip line on the south side of the house.
I'm collecting all my organic waste (which will include 1kg of coffee grounds by the time I leave!)
I'll deposit it in one of these tins, mixed with shredded paper, and buried under some potting mix a previous resident left behind.

At the entrance, it's permaculture zone 1. A perfect spot for some edible herbage.

If we all did little interventions like this, and all build on what others have left, we leave behind more for those who follow.

07/12/2025

When I find a limb down with viable seed pods, I often spring into action to collect the seeds!
In this case it was a manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis), dried out on builders plastic in the shearing shen for a few months or so.

Did you know that some native species are at risknof being wiped out? In national parks that are impacted by frequent bushfires, foresters need to re-seed areas where the burned regrowth hadn't had time to replenish the soil seed bank before being wiped out by fire.
Unfortunately, there just isn't enough people collecting the seeds needed for revegetation work. In the past, timber harvesters used to employ seed collectors. Now that timber harvesting has been shut down, they're not collecting the seeds any more.

For me, I'll be adding these seeds to the rest of my collection for broadcasting in places I want trees to grow.