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Posted 22 March 2011

South Melbourne Market Small Footprint Tour 

Some of the produce and stalls introduced during a March 2011 'small footprint' tour

Above: Different varieties of apples of different local provenance, including some from Melbourne's famous Petty's Orchard.

Above: Pine Mushrooms from the Yarra Valley-exotic mushrooms are starting to be sourced more and more from this region (previously, most market stock came from Asia)

A veritable store house of pumpkins and spuds - all with special culinary uses. Some of the produce in this store is grown in the trader's own garden. You'll never think of spuds as boring after seeing the range here..

Above: Bulk buying cereals, nuts and dried goods can save loads on packaging. Here, tour host Janet describes the nutritional benefits of a diet replete with pulses and wholegrains.

Above: celeriac produced in Melbourne's outer urban fringe. During the tour, discussions turned to the vulnerability of growers in these areas, who are holding tight to their patches of fertile land in the face of continued urban sprawl. 

Is this Port Phillip's most productive balcony worm farm?

Balcony gardener Anna L, who submitted the image above, had the following to say about her experience of worm farming:

"Attached is a photo (above) of what I just harvested from my worm farm this morning (26 June) – two big buckets of castings, about 7 litres of juice, and there seem to be about twice as many worms in there as there were when I started. Not a bad result for forty bucks worth of worms, ten bucks for a trowel and some gloves, and no effort other than chucking my fruit’n’vegie scraps in there each day!"

Anna's balcony garden is also a haven for her cat, who has a box of cat grass to sit in (when she's not sitting on the worm farm).  There's also a water tank to reclaim veggie washing water; netting to keep the foster cats in and the possums out, various random herbs and last but not least - a hammock.

Anna has described her main balcony gardening challenge as "how to get more stuff to grow out there without having to take the hammock down."

Love your style Anna !