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NEW Kitchen Experiment 🌿 Nasturtium Bread Rolls

NEW Kitchen Experiment 🌿 Nasturtium Bread Rolls! Bright vibrant and naturally green. Watch my latest video for the recipe - link in bio. A lot of work goes into creating my recipes and videos with PLENTY of failures along the way! 😂 I really appreciate the support from you all! So a big thank you! Inspired to keep creating 💚 #nasturtiumbread #nasturtiumbreadrolls

Fennel and Kumquat Rainbow Salad 🌈💚🌸🍊t

Fennel and Kumquat Rainbow Salad 🌈💚🌸🍊this has to be my favourite salad from my garden so far! Best flavour combo and all the flowers!

Also lettuce, purple kale, watermelon radish, purple & red radish and peas.

Edible flowers used:
🌸 Pansy
🌼 Calendula
🌸 Dianthus
🌼 Fennel

Growing fruit from SEED 🌱 Baby Kumquat or maybe

Growing fruit from SEED 🌱 Baby Kumquat or maybe a lemon 🍊🍋 I have been planting a few seeds in this pot whenever I cut fruit and find a seed that looks slightly green or about to germinate.

I’ve never bothered growing fruit trees from seed before because there’s so many articles online saying they won’t be true to the original, may not fruit or might take yeeeeears to fruit. BUT time is going to pass anyway so why not plant the seed and see what happens 🌱🌱🌱

Have you grown a fruit tree from seed?? Was it successful? 🍋🍏🍊🍎🥑

Last of the winter greens 🥬 I’ve been eating

Last of the winter greens 🥬 I’ve been eating my way through all of these as I make room for summer veggies. These pallet planter boxes will be home to tomatoes, basil, chilli, capsicum, cucumbers and corn 🌶🌽🥒🍅 and lets be honest probably LOTS more things all jammed in haha.

Container gardens can dry out really fast especially coming into the warmer months. I like to give a quick water in the morning to keep them thriving 🌱

I highly recommend having a hose nearby so you can easily water your gardens. If it’s not quick and easy you may just run out of time before you head out the door (and that day will probably be the hottest 😅🥵🤦‍♀️). This can be the difference between living and crispy dead plants during hot summer days!

My @hoselinkofficial retractable hose has been life saving for my container gardens 🌱use code SUSTAINABLEHOLLY10 FOR 10% off storewide #hoselink #hoselinkofficial

Good soil is KEY to a successful garden 🥕🌿🌻🍉If you want healthy nutrient dense food, you need healthy, nutrient producing soil.

Healthy soil is ALIVE with a web of beneficial interconnected relationships that support life. Dirt is what happens when that life dies.

Start building good soil by:

🌿 COMPOST - this will help add plant matter, improve moisture retention and add valuable nutrients to feed your soils microbes. Compost teas are also great!
🌿PROTECT - cover and protect the soil from the harsh sun with cover crops, chop and drop, mulch or plants. Even weeds are better than bare soil!
🌿 INCREASE DIVERSITY- Each kind of plant provides the soil and microorganisms with different benefits.
🌿 HYDRATE - healthy soil will eventually retain moisture better and require less water.
🌿 GO NATURAL - don’t use nasty chemicals or pesticides that will kill off the beneficial bacteria and microorganisms.

Care for your soil just as much if not MORE than your plants and it will make growing food so much easier and more productive. Working with nature and not against it.

I’m really passionate about building soil and learning more about regeneration 🌱here are a couple good films/videos I’ve watched recently.

NETFLIX :
🌱@kisstheground

YOUTUBE:
🌱@tvnz.official Country Calendar episode 7 2020
🌱Fools and Dreamers @happenfilms Plus all their videos!
🌱 From the ground up.

There’s so many more good ones that I can’t remember right now so I might start putting together a list. If you know any good sustainable or regenerative videos let me know below ✨

Happy Friday!! I thought it must be time for an in

Happy Friday!! I thought it must be time for an intro for those of you that are new to my page 🌻 Well really just some random useless info for fun 👩🏼‍🌾

🌿 My name is Holly named after a giant Holly tree in Kew Gardens/ Royal botanic gardens in London. I have no middle name (anyone else out there???)
🌿 I grew up on a farm and was extremely obsessed with horses 🐎
🌿 I have always wanted to buy and create a self-sufficient mini farm but now I’m thinking I also want a Noah’s arc sanctuary type vibe 🦚
🌿 I have an out of control obsession with gherkins/ pickles.. the sweet ones not the dill ones.
🌿 I love camping and getting away from people and phone coverage
🌿 I am from Northland, NZ and did my degree (media arts) in Hamilton. Have now lived in Perth for nearly 8 years!
🌿 I LOVE waterfalls
🌿 I HATE mushrooms! Especially the smell of them cooking.
🌿 My Dream is to build an A-frame cabin in the woods and spend my days gardening, looking after my tribe of animals and making witchy potions and weird rainbow food ✨

Nasturtium Salt 💚 Always fun to experiment with

Nasturtium Salt 💚 Always fun to experiment with things from the garden 🌿 I love cooking with colour 🌈

Recipes: www.sustainableholly.com

#wastefreegarden #dehydratorrecipes

Spring is such an exciting time! 🌿🦋🌹🌱

Spring is such an exciting time! 🌿🦋🌹🌱 So much new growth, flowers and insects about. Feel like I need to have a spring dinner party to celebrate 🥂 Feijoa flowers have started to pop 🍾

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