kellymariemcewan

My Mission

The five years I spent in Europe travelling and working on farmstays allowed me to understand agriculture and horticulture in a temperate climate, a valuable learning experience to compare to the subtropical nature of the climate I was raised in.

With this knowledge, a lifetime’s experience and utilising techniques from seminal texts like Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution, Paul Stamet’s Mycelium Running, and Bill Mollison’s Permaculture series, I have been facilitating the growth of a food forest while studying dual degrees in both Psychology and Environment & Sustainability.

I seek to understand where creativity, the natural environment and good mental health meet. Other cultures have words for the human need to be in the natural environment – Kachou Fuugetsu in Japanese, or Allemansrätten in Swedish.

As an artist I have many exciting ideas about how to make an independent green space with a focus on soil health, how plants are instrumental to good physical and mental health, and how to creative re-purpose building materials into practical projects. Adding to this challenge is the climate: we need different types of trees (cassava, pigeon pea) and greens (waterleaf, tree lettuce, aibika) that grow and crop well in the subtropics when so many gardening books are written for the temperate climate. Using my background in academic research, I have been compiling lists of the plants that grow happily in north Queensland, PLUS providing food, pollen, skincare products and decor to the household throughout the year.

Please get in touch if you would like to know more about creating a sub-tropical permaculture garden, the best calorically dense plants to grow in your area, how to make your own cleansers and shampoos, or creative ways to repurpose junk into unique and/or strange garden features. You can also subscribe below to get notifications

Subscribe

Subscribe to get our the latest news in your inbox.

Type your email…

Subscribe