December at Siema Organics
We have been enjoying the bounty of late spring. The last few weeks of rainfall have been a blessing to the fruit trees, vegetable garden and newly planted natives. The flowers around the orchard are blossoming. We have been enjoying the many edible ones with our salad greens. The monarch butterflies have found the swan plants, and all is buzzing with bees.
We have been making our own fertilisers from foraged seaweed and comfrey. They provide great nutrients for both the trees and vegetable garden.
We tasted the first of the apricots this week, as have the local birds!
A group of local residents in Kaiaua are in the process of starting up a community garden on Kaiaua School grounds. Siema organics is excited to learn more about the community garden project and hope to get engaged with the project as it unfolds. The bringing together of like minded gardening enthusiasts and others keen to learn is inspiring for us. This also ties in with permaculture values of building resilience within our community.
Noho ora mai,
Gemma
This article was originally written for Kaiaua Compass, December 2020.
