How it all began..

My Husband and I bought Witch Valley in 1997 when I was pregnant with my second child. We wanted the security and community that a villiage could offer us. It took us 3 years to turn the fields for hay into something that resembled a garden before we took the next step and did some landscaping. We evened out the steep slope into 4 levels and planted hedges to optically widen the narrow piece of land, trees to add perspective and made my husband's beloved pond for Koi.

The garden in 1998 the year after we bought the property

Level one

Level one summer

Level 1: House, pond, terrace, shed, parking, carport and kids playing area

Level 2: Rose garden, sun lounge and quiet place

Level 3: Vegetable and berry garden with compost heaps

Level 4: Orchard, 2nd shed and pool

Level two and Three 2007

Level 4 Orchard 2007

The death of my husband in 2003 left me alone with a huge garden, but no time. It got neglected and overgrown... so in 2014 I decided to bulldose the vegetable garden over and start again. I had previously grown my garden biologically dynamic with Steiner's theory, and though I still use elements from that today, my ecological mind set has broadened like everything should, and I never follow all the rules of any one theory to the letter. if it doesnt make sense to me.  I leave out the horoscope and the horn filled herbs because I really don't think it matters to a practical gardener who wants to eat what he grows.
I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it can't hurt not to use them either, as long as you're getting a good compost into your garden and garden organically.

Having been fortunate with my soil to begin with, you might question my views and that's fine, follow whatever system you like. For me, I've never fed my edibles with anything else but rotted manure, stinging nettle tea, rock dust and horn shavings. They get everything they need, so I really don't need the seaweed, the herbs in horn nor the additives to my compost. Nature is not as complicated as people would like you to believe, nature got on very well before we turned up.