MEGAN’S PROPERTY AT CHARLOTTE BAY, NSW
About the venue:
Megan developed this property over 15 years starting off with a rocky ridge of just clay and rocks! She built all gardens using no dig methods with the plants she had planted like comfrey to build up the soil. It features a 17 year old food forest planted on swales, dripping with delicious sub tropical fruits including bananas, guava, feijoa, fig, mango, citrus and stawberries. A chook pen using an old caravan, no dig gardens and a chop and drop mulching system have improved the soil on this rocky ridge where there is now a productive ecosystem. Happy chickens were freeranging in a fox proof chook house reusing an old caravan. Starting with zone 0, the solar passive designed house has been developed over the last 13 years with design features of rammed earth, light earth, mud brick with an on site grey water treatment system, solar panels and even home grown bench tops!
Accommodation in our Rammed Earth Home
Food Forest – fruit trees planted in swales
No dig gardens
Chicken house
Wicking bed – with leafy greens
Megan Cooke
Founder, teacher – Garden to Table Permaculture
Megan Cooke
Director of Garden to Table Permaculture, Megan has a combined 30 years experience in horticulture, permaculture, outdoor education and as an Airbnb Superhost. She spent about 15 years designing and implementing her own Permaculture Property including a Rammed Earth home and Permaculture Gardens.
Megan was previously a director for Permaculture Australia and is based on the Mid North Coast of NSW at Diamond Beach and offers a garden advisory service from Newcastle to Port Macquarie in person or via Skype to anywhere in the world!
Megan is on her own healthy living journey and she is now sharing with other people what she has learn along the way. She is currently busy designing gardens and helping other people make their garden visions turn into a reality.
Permaculture is about living a sustainable lifestyle as well as growing or sourcing locally produced food. If you are looking for some unique accommodation in a duo of Vintage Caravans Millie and Frankie click here.
“I took this Permaculture Design Course to learn a bit about growing fruit and veg. I didn’t expect it to be a life changing experience. I would highly recommend anyone that is slightly interested in permaculture to do a PDC.”
“I came into the course knowing that I love to garden but wanting more than just creating a garden that is pretty to look at. The PDC has helped clarify my thoughts on what I need to do within my own garden and how I can share that with people that are likeminded or not. We live in a wasteful society and I like thing to have a purpose and be useful, so I myself is not contributing to this problem. I’ve learnt a lot from the content in the course but it has also encouraged me to go beyond that and research further into other topics and therefore making me reassess what is important to me, my family and our future”.