"It's an appetising jungle" The Age Newspaper Article -circa 1997
Art/Food/Horticulture.
From 1984- 2000, alongside my art practice of Screenprinted Cards and Prints, Music and Animation, I worked as a gardener, home nursery and garden design business. After completing a Permaculture Design Course I gave my gardening business the name of "Simply Edible Gardens". I sold plants and drew up garden designs on Amiga and Atari home computers with a dot matrix printer.
I also produced a little booklet of my take on the most useful organic gardening and permaculture tips for suburban gardens. The cover was printed with the newer safe inks and tiny device, Print Gocco "Riso" screen printer and the pages traditional actual cut and paste, basic dot matrix printed text and photocopy services.
You can peruse or download this booklet now as digitised e-book pdf file at the end of this paragraph.
I feel the booklet still has some relevance but comes with no guarantee of accuracy, originality or special value!
Since 2000 our growing family moved to outer Bendigo, adjusting to the very much different climate and landscape, fitting in busier family and work lives has made many compromises and changes, but growing plants for wider revegetation and wildlife concerns as well as many uses including health and food has been a continuing quest and source of satisfaction and connection.
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