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Down Memory Lane

March 15, 2022 by Ulla 8 Comments

My late Grandmother (on my late Father’s side) and her siblings were all born on a very beautiful and rather isolated island by the name Læsø in the North Sea bay of Kattegat in Scandinavia. This is where they grew up and this island became a wonderful place for holidays from my early childhood and when I get the opportunity I still go there. The size of the island is 118km². Last time I visited Denmark (2019) Peder and I went for a visit together with my Mother and my Aunt. On this island you will find unique houses with thick layer of seaweed as roof and it is only found on Læsø nowhere else in the world! Læsø is known for these old houses. That’s awesome. At the time of writing this article there were 19 remaining seaweed houses on the island and 11 of them are preserved. I learned … [Read more...] about Down Memory Lane

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: culture, Denmark, history

Growing a Small Garden

April 6, 2020 by Ulla 3 Comments

From the Good Old Aussie Big Back Yard to the New Suburbia Living Lifestyle it is time to connect with Mother Earth. It is time to start a garden. Gardening is a great passion of mine and so rewarding when you plant your seeds and see them germinate and grow into beautiful flowers, herbs and vegetables or even trees. You don’t need a lot of space to grow successfully. A few years ago I decided to prove just that with the New Suburbia Living Lifestyle in mind. I hope I can encourage people with small space to grow a garden so please keep reading. I wanted the garden to easily fit into the new and modern suburbia where there is not much room for playing cricket or airing the family dog so I decided that 34m2 of kitchen garden would help feed a family quite nicely. A small garden can … [Read more...] about Growing a Small Garden

Filed Under: Gardening, Health and Wellbeing Tagged With: garden, growing, planting

A World of Wonderful Seed Exchange

March 3, 2020 by Ulla 2 Comments

Creating space for all ages to come together, socialise, walk beautiful gardens, exchange invaluable information, ideas and have space to learn with likeminded people. That’s exactly what we do when we get together for a Mareeba Seed Savers and Gardening Group meeting.   Seed Savers Up North, the first seed savers group in our local area, was coordinated by Annie Jenkins who started the group in 1995. Their meetings were usually held on the Southern Tablelands in Tarzali. The group folded in 2010 after 15 very successful years. The Mareeba Seed Savers and Garden Group was founded in 2009 by Peder and myself. We are a part of the Australia wide Seed Savings Network which was founded by Michel and Jude Fanton based in Byron … [Read more...] about A World of Wonderful Seed Exchange

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: biodiversity, biodynamic, garden, planting, seeds

Seed Saving

February 9, 2020 by Ulla 6 Comments

seeds in a bamboo leaf

Seed saving goes back to the dawn of agriculture so we are looking at very ancient traditions. Seeds were carried by nomads and planted where they stopped for spring, summer and autumn. Many of their seeds were sacred to them and very important for their ritual life. I was taught about seed saving when I was 4 years old my Grandmother as my Mentor. She had a compost heap. We got cow manure from an uncle out of town. We collected lots of seaweed at the nearby beach. We got leaf litter from the nearby forest where we also filled up our water containers from a sacred mineral spring. Grandmother had a beautiful garden full of edible stuff and lots of herbs and flowers for medicinal use. She taught me how to save seeds and she had a small personal seed catalogue full of information … [Read more...] about Seed Saving

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: garden, saving, seeds

Garden Spirit and the Wildlife

April 4, 2019 by Ulla 10 Comments

I always tell the garden spirits that I am going away on a holiday of any length. They like to know my whereabouts and this way they don’t feel left out. More important is for us humans to acknowledge that the garden spirits are our helpers and supporters and they perform a lot of magic that you might not be aware of if you can’t see, feel or hear it. If you still your mind and take time to observe with all your senses what is going on in your garden or nature you will eventually start learning and understand. The spirits all present themselves one way or the other. Sometimes you will see a different light or energy movement between the sunflowers. You might get a pat on your shoulder or you hat will get knocked off your head while walking through your fruit orchard all caused by the … [Read more...] about Garden Spirit and the Wildlife

Filed Under: Gardening, Nature's Wisdom, Rural Life, Travel Tagged With: curlew, garden spirit, kangaroo, spider, wallaby, wildlife

My Cow Horn Mandala

September 14, 2018 by Ulla 9 Comments

Cow horn mandala

As some of you know I am a textile artist and I love being just that.  A very creative textile stirrer, they call me. I do artist stirring of like minded people to be creative and go with the flow. I love being with people who like me think out of the square. I love creating anything from materials such as fabric to garden hoses, old onion bags to hand spun yarns, paper bags and rubber bands. From flowers and bamboo leaves to spider web and banana trunks. I love working with colours. I love creating patterns and making travel journals. I love beach combing collecting washed up sticks, shells and beans then string it together and hang the stuff in the almighty Beach Almond tree while soaking up the colours of the sunset crashing with the white sand and the turquoise water. I am in my … [Read more...] about My Cow Horn Mandala

Filed Under: Gardening, Rural Life Tagged With: biodynamic, cow horn, FNQ, mandala, Mother Earth, ritual, spirals

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