Benefits of a garden

Materials and Fuel

Firewood, Handcrafting and natural building materials

Food and Medicine

Fresh seasonal vegetables, fruits and herbs are flavoursome and healthy

Well being

Exercise, balance and relaxation.

What’s New

Forest Garden with 500 Edible Plants – Short Film

Here is a very short film about Forest Gardens featuring Martin Crawford. It’s an amazing...

World Radio Day – Gardening and Well Being

Today, we are contributing to the World Radio Day with this quick 3 minute talk...

Radio – The Gardening Slot

We’ve been asked to speak about simple steps people can make to start a garden...

Shop

IMPORTANT NOTICE – Please Read Before Ordering! We currently have a 2 week order processing...

Useful Plants Series – Yacon

Latin name: Smallanthus sonchifolius or Polymnia sonchifolia Yacon is now available in our SHOP, however...

Ancient Tubers Christmas GIVE-AWAY! – Winners

Congratulations to the winners, Sindy W. and Antoinette R. We will contact you shortly! Thanks...

Ancient Tubers Christmas GIVE-AWAY!

Happy Christmas and an abundant new year from Gardens for Life. We want to thank...

Next season at Birdland Cottage

One more month and the gardening season is starting up again at Birdland cottage. First...

Giant Potato Plant Harvest

This giant potato plant started life as a tiny volunteer. It happened to be in...