Our No-dig Raised beds.

You would be surprised how much fruit and vegetables you can grow in a small garden. One of the best solutions are raised beds. Once filled with many cubic meters of fertile black soil, it's a simple matter of planting and sowing as you see fit. These can be designed and built to fit your garden and added upon as your household kitchen needs require. Benefits of our raised beds over others include, to name a few:

• Deep & fertile.
• Lower maintenance.
• Permanent and solid wall options - Natural and local timber, Terra-cotta or stone options. 
• Fewer naturally occurring weeds. 
• Eliminate plastic pipe irrigation needs with our low maintenance and cost effective Terra-cotta irrigation.
• Easy ergonomic management - less bending over and reaching. Perch on your beds if you like - very important.
• More protection from pests, dog wee and frost.
• Fixed with "In bed" Terra-cotta Worm composting (Vermiculture) systems.
• Easily cover with netting (again we can supply plastic free options) or retrofit with a timber frame glasshouse. 

Photos of timber raised beds kitchen garden projects:

Legacy Keyhole and Biophilic Raised beds:

Creating the ultimate gardener friendly raised beds. Benefits and features of these over other raised beds include:

• Centralised Terracotta composting bin - can be our Terracotta Vermicomposter. Let the worms transport the fertility to the rest of the bed.
• Centralised Terracotta Irrigation - harnessing Terracotta wicking to the rest of your bed.
• Increased ergonomic access to compost bin and fruit or vegetables. No bedding over or kneeling on the ground.
• Your Horticultural Legacy - A true "Permaculture" raised bed with stone wall options lasting hundreds of years.
• More Biophilic than rectangular fruit and vegetable beds. Working with a biological shape.

Market & Restaurant gardens:

 We enjoy establishing larger scale Organic Kitchen garden models, that aren't particularly space limited, which require a different kind of no-dig approach than raised high sided beds. Low-level, no-dig beds still require a large input of compost, but differently we use Woodchip for the pathways, which in turn adds to the desired fungal and microbial life in the beds. Your Organic Kitchen Garden model would be sustainably designed around variables unique to your plot layout and any pre-existing model, such as;

• Landscape,
• Logistics and inputs,
• Propagation preferences,
• kitchen or market needs,
• Irrigation,
• Machinery,
• Gardener numbers,
• Future development,
• Cover-crops or green manures,
• Livestock.

With these type of gardens, we draw upon decades of experience and lessons learnt, sometimes the hard way, of what works, applying them to your Organic Kitchen Garden so that you can have a more enjoyable, efficient garden model. Please feel free to contact us, if you are interested in our help in establishing a sustainable Organic Kitchen Garden.