URBAN JUNGLE

HOW TO GROW A FRUIT AND VEGETABLE FOOD FOREST ON AN AVERAGE SUBURBAN BLOCK

Jana Homer

Alwyn and Lynda Schuch’s productive patch is on a 580m2 block in Eaton, a north-western suburb of Bunbury in Western Australia. A construction electrician in South Africa’s gold mines for 27 years, Alwyn first began gardening with his father in North West Province, formerly part of the Transvaal, where the climate is quite similar to Australia’s. There they grew vegetables, ran free-range chickens and tended an orange orchard, growing fruit for export. Here in Eaton, he relaxes by reading and researching the Bible, drawing with colour pencils and cooking. Lynda, an accomplished seamstress, spent her working life as a bank officer. Right now, their focus is on their garden, which comprises 20 metres of raised Colorbond vegie beds where they grow silverbeet, tomato, carrots, spring onions, radishes, capsicum, beetroot, sweet…

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