A highly productive small-scale urban garden | Urban Farming | Gardening Australia

If you want a productive garden and only have a small space, this small city garden is inspiring. Kat Lavers is a permaculture designer and educator, with a small-scale but very productive space. On a mere 96m2, the garden produces an abundance of edible crops every season. And what’s a smaller alternative to chooks? 3:34 Quails of course! Kat moved into her house ‘The Plummery’ in 2008. Apart from an old Blood Plum (Prunus cv.), the garden was a mass of weeds with contaminated soil and marauding possums. 0:41 With above acceptable levels of lead in the soil originating from peeling house paint, Kat built three raised vegetable beds. Kat: “I am going to live here for a long time, and eat many kilos of produce from my garden, so it’s important I know what is in my soil, both in terms of contamination and nutrients.” 1:14 Kat rotates her edible crops across the 3 raised garden beds. For ease of use, they are all the same size - the trellis system she uses can be moved from one bed