Category Archives: FiMBY Mentoring Sessions

A Half Session. . .

Christina came by today for a quick half session, which worked well with Eskil’s limits!  He mostly played in his KinderKot while Lottie ‘guarded’ him.  He’s 11 weeks and 5 days old. First we cleared out some carrots and beetroot … Continue reading

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Eskil’s First Garden Craft Session

Our last official garden craft session with FiMBY was Eskil’s first! However we’ve already discussed continuing mentoring sessions with Christina; having someone come out to help and inspire us at least once a month is just too important not to … Continue reading

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February Garden Craft Session

This is mainly a placeholder to remind me to get moving on updating this blog!  I’ve been exhausted lately so just haven’t kept up-to-date.  I have many photos, and have even uploaded some of them to Flickr, but I have … Continue reading

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December Garden Craft Session

Another EXTREMELY late post.  I’ll adjust the date later; this session was 11 December 2010. Another month, and another wonderful session with Christina.  As usual she started out by going around the garden and seeing that was happening and what … Continue reading

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Second Garden Craft Session

Our second garden craft session was pushed back a week to 20 November since we took a spontaneous trip to Victoria the weekend before (when the session was originally scheduled).  I was slightly annoyed with myself because I really wanted … Continue reading

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First Garden Craft Session

Today we’ve had our first Garden Craft session with Christina.  It’s hard to believe, but she hasn’t been to Lottie’s Lot since 11 September when all the planting out of the raised garden beds, new raspberries, and trees (chestnut, mulberry, … Continue reading

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5 Parts Carbon + 1 Part Nitrogen = Hot Compost

FiMBY had a hot composting demo session at their propagation headquarters in Taroona.  Christina and Juliet lead the session, assisted by Hazel as well as 4 of us FiMBY beginners, Anne, Ian, Scott, and me. First Christina gave a bit … Continue reading

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Immortality

We’ve had some fantastic opportunities to do FiMBY related things away from the house. Talking to people about our garden and being social over food and compost is, dare I say it, even better than being in the garden. On … Continue reading

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