2018

Some trees pierced the canopy of chuanchi and heshouwu
Future mulch
Thick clump of bajiaos
Compost bin where the chickens hang out
Lost toys and rubbish still fall down from homesteads above
Shell Ginger and native agrimony
Path still clear; chickens?
pineapple and pittaya
The understory is relatively clear
Lots of biomass for sheet mulching
2-year absence produced lots of biomass

2017

Early spring and all is growing well

2014

Kathrin harvesting a pineapple
Garden in July starts getting serious biomass
Guava tree bloom buds
Early spring in the community garden on the second terrace
abundance in the community garden
Humble but effective composting system in community garden
Colorful veggie beds

Colorful veggie beds
Colorful veggie beds
Colorful veggie beds
Comfrey and colorful veggies
Comfrey bell flowers up close
Pointy-leaved, more heat tolerant comfrey with beautiful, bright purple bell flowers
Lots of eggplants
鼠麴草 (shǔ qū cǎo) Gnaphalium affine
Wild life - skink
Comfrey and lemon grass waiting to be planted, chives, parsley, thyme, etc
Green onions with yellow eggplant in the background
Green onions grown from the root end of previously harvested bunch
Round-leaved comfrey; prefers cool weather
Lemon, rosemary and lemon grass so far; rosella, perilla, kankong and beans coming up
early spring in the community garden
early bajiao transplanting period
two water barrels in series
eggplant
Saturday harvest of greens, herbs, habaneros, yellow eggplant, tomatoes, passion fruit from the community garden

sprouting salads and radishes

eggplant
ripe tomatoes

















Salad Burnet. Topping and filling beds with mature compost.
Gingers and tumeric dormant in winter

dry compost in heavy rain

ripe tomatoes
garden river
high water
flowers and fruits
A shrew. We also found a dead mole a few days later. It looks like a cat got it?
Marian working the broadfork
Marian working the broadfork

Tea tree
Lemon tree guild: comfrey, rue, parsley, culantro, rose geranium, sweet potato.
Papaya, eggplant, mints