Our first out of class "Permablitz"

After our Permaculture Design Certificate course finished in late August we promised that we would continue to work as a group to do "permaculture" things.   So today we completed our first out of class permablitz ... and we had lots of fun... our goal was to create the base for a new Zone 1 kitchen garden using sheet mulching.

Here is what we achieved.....

We started by laying wet newspaper over a sprinkling of well aged sheep manure....

Wetting all the newspaper to be laid - a job the kids loved....

Nearly a complete covering of newspaper...

Now for the lucerne mulch layer......

All mulched now......  I think we used 20 bails of lucerne!!!

Some paths went in then some young seedlings were planted into some additional compost within the mulch.

A new Zone 1 kitchen garden laid out.....

The next task will be to fill it with a mix of perennial and annual food plants.....

It is amazing how many hands make light work... this was all achieved in just over 3 hours...

Next permablitz is at our house in a month.... I have on the list of things to do - a dry creek bed, a sheet mulched area under some newly planted fruit trees and the planting of shrubs and ground cover in our fruit tree orchard as well as more shrubs, sedges and shade loving natives in our native plant conservation zone.... should be fun.... can't wait ....