About Bellingen Seedsavers

We are a group of like-minded growers of edible and useful heritage plant varieties in the Bellingen area of northeast New South Wales, Australia.

Our climate varies from frost-free coastal areas to inland river valleys and highlands with frosts. Bellingen has an average annual rainfall of 1507ml.

Saturday 14 January 2012

Bellingen Seedsavers visit 'Ohana' at Thora


Rob shows us around his large garden. Click on any pic to enlarge.

Thora is about ten minutes drive west of Bellingen. Kirsten and Rob welcomed us and shared their large vegetable garden and orchard with us. The area has been reclaimed from weedy Lantana which had climbed five metres into the fruit trees. Rob and Kirsten used goats, horses and human power to clear the land and discovered the mature fruit trees. The garden, previously cultvated and now enriched with plenty of animal manure is very productive. You can see more of Rob and Kirsten's garden at www.ohanathora.blogspot.com.


The rich soil has been sculpted into vegetable beds.















Amaranth provides Kirsten and Rob young leaves for a salad




The tomatoes are protected from birds with nets

Rob grows large quantities of parsley.

Yellow Evening Primrose provides flowers for a salad.














































Yellow Zucchine

Water melon

Egyptian Spinach seedlings










































Seedling Black Walnut

Black Walnut trees provide shade but not fruit. Apparently they are also useful for rootstock.


A large unpruned plum.

A fruiting Persimmon

This mature Nashi Pear is loaded with fruit.


Mature Feijoas

A 1.5m resident goanna checked on our presence.





















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