Welcome to Melbourne Foodforest! Here’s a bit about us.
🌲 About three years ago, we made the marvellous (or crazy?!) decision to convert every inch of our backyard into a productive working garden. We intermingle fruit trees, veggies, and companion flowers in many layers to create a space that nourishes our belly and our soul. We’ve made use of every inch of space including vertical space to create an edible jungle, teeming with life.
🌲 We have filled our garden with over 70 varieties of fruit, countless heirloom veggies, chickens, a productive pond with fish, four worm farms, compost bins, water tanks and a greenhouse. Currently we eat around 50% from our garden and we hope to increase this percentage as our garden evolves
🌲 Our philosophy to gardening is all about edible beauty – productive veggies and fruit trees intermingled with companion flowers – the best of both worlds. Our garden teaches us so much about life and resilience, and provides us with an abundance of organic produce year-round.
🌲 We are passionate about gardening sustainably. I’m a big believer that to succeed in the garden you don’t need to spend a lot of money or buy copious amounts of plastic packaged materials. You’ll see us use lots of recycled and salvaged materials.
🌲 My husband is the chef and shares recipes for delicious, wholesome ways to cook with and preserve your abundant harvests.
🌲 We are here to share all our tips, tricks on how you can successfully grow your own backyard foodforest. It is our mission to help make the world a little greener, one gardener at a time!
❤️ We pour our heart and soul into every video we make. It’d mean the world to us if you could Like and Share our videos and Subscribe to our channel. Your support helps us to grow and allows us to make more great content ❤️
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This is a short highlight of our segment which was featured on TV on ABC’s Gardening Australia. For the full segment you can find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqtrT_7sHKc.
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16 Comments
Loving that amazingly abundant citrus tree! Looking forward to lots of videos showing the different parts of the garden in more detail 🙂
What a beautiful, amazing and abundant oasis you have there! I just love it xx Cathi xx
A wonderful video description of an amazing garden. Thrilled to see you're getting the attention you deserve. You've even got a formerly disinterested gardening know-nothing like me watching your videos. Quite an achievement!
Nice video
Very nice and interesting. Congratulations. Can you please lower the music, it goes over your voice and it's hard to understand what you are saying.
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Hi there
How big is your gardening space ? Amazing garden and produce 😀
This was such an inspiring video!! You’ve created an urban oasis of food!!! Loved it 😊 Our little 3 acre small scale farm is 20 mins out of Geelong! I’m so glad to have come across your channel!! Have a great weekend, Anita & Cable 🌻🐝
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Beautiful
Looking forward to following your journey
Nice garden
Sooo inspirational! Where are you pls????
Your urban garden looks amazing
Amazing!
Are looking to open your garden to visitors ?
It could teach a lot of people how to grow their own food .