The Guild of Aeonic Alchemy

This is a report from mid-winter 2008:

Here's an outline of the status and planned development for the garden.

Currently we have a large area (approximately 100+ square meters) for growing food. Here we have many different vegetables and herbs growing, including (to name a few) - beetroot, snow peas, cabbage, carrot, broccoli, lettuce, mustard, spinach, potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum, rocket, broad beans, sweet peas... We have many herbs going well too - basil, coriander, mint, brahmi, dill, parsley, sage, oregano, cat-mint. We also have some fruit - passion fruit, a lemon tree and an avocado tree (these are still small and in early years).
For this area, there are plans to add a few more fruits trees (mandarin, peach, pear... are some possible ideas). We also are developing some easy-access paths throughout the garden and finishing off the final extensions to the vegetable/herb section. A lotus pond is also in development.
The other area of the garden is planned to be a sitting area. We have started an Australian Wild Flower bed that should be blooming abundantly late spring. We also have set up a campfire circle with logs to sit around it.
Soon we will bring an outdoor table and benches there to sit around and have some out-door vegetarian BBQ's (when it warms up).

We need to mainly do the following:
- Acquire a chainsaw and cut the remaining trunks of the old pine trees down, and also use it to cut up some other wood from the trees.
- Remove the old hills-hoist clothes line and put the second new clothesline up.
- Bring the outdoor table and chairs from Emeera's parents house and apply varnish or paint to protect them from weathering.
- Sort the pine cuttings into big logs and small branches (with a saw, ax or chainsaw)
- Continue making the paths and decide what we will place over them (gravel, quartz, bricks, stones,,,)
- Finish the final expansion of the food garden
- Plant some more fruit trees
- Finish the pond, acquire some lotus seeds and other rocks or plants for this area. (I plan to make this into a mandala type structure) - there has also been talk of getting some 'auspicious' fish. I had an idea to buy some white flowers to place on the 'petals' around the pond, then surround that with river pebbles in a circular shape.

After this, we can work on the sitting area more, planted some other trees and a lavender/rosemary hedge or similar. Possibly mostly in Oriental/Native Australian style. We then have further plans to build our own gazebo.

Hopefully this gives a vision of what we are going to do. Photos can be included here to show visually the history and development of the First Village Garden.

Oh and a statue of Venus or perhaps Sarasvati (she is clothed), would be great.

Todd.