{"id":59764,"date":"2021-10-09T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59764"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T12:57:27","slug":"no-land-no-problem-how-a-lady-farmer-converts-an-idle-backyard-into-a-productive-urban-vegetable-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59764","title":{"rendered":"No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Market-Garden.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Market-Garden.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Market-Garden-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Market-Garden-560x372.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Market-Garden-272x182.jpeg 272w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2021\/10\/05\/no-land-no-problem-how-a-lady-farmer-converts-an-idle-backyard-into-a-productive-urban-vegetable-garden\/\">No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"single-post-meta\" class=\"post-meta clearfix\">Abi Byrne and her Ocean Grove Farm in Sydney\u2019s Northern Beaches are living proof that you don\u2019t need to own a piece of land to practice permaculture to produce healthy and nutrition-dense food.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>Since 2019 Abi has been growing an abundance of fresh and chemical-free veggies in what used to be an idle backyard of her elderly neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been passionate about the land,\u201d said Abi.<\/p>\n<p>For most of her time, Abi has been involved in pursuing regenerative land management. She event went into broadacre and permaculture practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always see myself living on the land at a later stage in my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But the confluence of circumstances made Abi stay in the city instead of the farm, though this didn\u2019t stop her from her being involved in farming and food production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStart where you are and do what you can is the motto that I have adopted to ease my need to grow. I became a horticulturist and permaculture consultant and bush regenerator, as I don\u2019t have my own garden, I\u2019m so happy to tend other peoples\u2019 gardens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the farmer in her must still be crying out to be expressed. She tells everyone who will listen that she\u2019d rather be tending a tiny farm and producing fresh healthy food to share in her community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA food garden is my happy place,\u201d Abi says.<\/p>\n<p>When a retired neighbour listened to her dream of growing food and about urban permaculture and offered his idle backyard to be tended back to life, Abi grabbed the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No land, no problem: How a lady farmer converts an idle backyard into a productive urban vegetable garden Abi Byrne and her Ocean Grove Farm in Sydney\u2019s Northern Beaches are living proof that you don\u2019t need to own a piece of land to practice permaculture to produce healthy and nutrition-dense food. 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