Discover extraordinary heritage apple varieties that outperform supermarket apples in flavour — and how to choose the right varieties for your climate.
Grow 5 varieties on a single tree — how multi-graft and cocktail trees work, which combinations succeed, and how to manage them.
Lacto-fermented fruit drinks — from Mexican pineapple tepache to Russian kvass and homemade ginger beer — are easy to produce from garden and kitchen produce in 2–5 days.
Homemade jam from garden fruit is one of the great pleasures of productive gardening — a skill that is easier to master than most people think.
Espalier and fan-trained fruit trees grown against greenhouse walls or warm brick walls maximise the productive use of every square metre — turning a wall into a fruit-producing …
Apples and pears require more careful variety selection in Australia than almost any other fruit. This guide covers choosing for chill hours, cross-pollination requirements, fireli…
Homemade vinegar from garden fruit, wine, or cider is a genuinely superior product — live, with the "mother" of vinegar, complex in flavour, and produced from your own raw materi…
Planting guilds are communities designed around a central productive plant. Learn building an apple guild, a tomato guild, and a berry patch guild.
A backyard food forest combines fruit trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground covers in a self-sustaining system. Learn designing for Australian conditions with species selection for each…
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