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Dorrit collecting eggs from a hen house in an orchard

About me

I’m 56 and I have lived on this acre since 2019. It came with an old weatherboard house, a tin shed and more couch grass than I thought one block could hold. I started with four raised beds and six hens, and I wrote down everything, because I could not trust myself to remember what I had sown and when.

Now the acre has fourteen beds, twenty-one fruit trees, a hen run, a paddock and three rain tanks. I share it as it happens: the sowing, the picking, the hens, the compost and the long days of putting food away. I do not sell plants, animals or land, and I do not teach farming for a living. I show what works on one acre, in a place with hot dry summers.

What I sell are the pages and lessons I use myself: a planner for the year, a sheet for each part of the acre, a workbook for the jars and freezer, and two video courses. You work through them on your own, at your own pace.

Notes From the Acre

A short letter every Sunday from my kitchen table: what is growing, what the hens are doing and one job for the week. Join and get my free garden-planning toolkit.

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