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Gardens are never done…

NZ native Turkey Tail fungus in a working system where the fungi collects and directs water with its 'tails' assisting to degrade woody materials on the forest floor.This in turn provides food,moisture and ambient tempreture for tree roots, which provide more food for the fungi. If the fungi becomes too optimistic and takes over the tree too quickly, the light and heat will kill off the tails until such a time equilibrium is again reached, and the trees and fungi are again in balance...

Effects of a garden are huge and wide ranging. Gardens are providers, teachers, sustainers, nurturers who work with and on behalf of our earth-mother and sky-father – Rangi’ and Papa’ (and of course their children as off-shoots of their own love), the lord- God, and most poignant of all, our Earth, and it’s wider placementContinue reading “Gardens are never done…”