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Beyond the beautiful hard cover is a guide to planting and cultivation according to the lunar cycles throughout the year, featuring seasonal gardening advice, optimum planting windows, tips and tricks and a monthly journal to manage your own garden.<\/p>\n
Phoebe adores sharing her knowledge and was motivated to create the kind of resource she had once been looking for herself.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always loved the moon, even since I was a kid, and as I was doing all my study in permaculture I knew about biodynamics but I started coming across it more and more.<\/p>\n
“The thing that really fascinated me was the intrinsic connection to the moon and the lunar cycle and how important that is in the practice.<\/p>\n
“So I got right into that and really loved it.<\/p>\n
“But I found that a lot of the resources were pretty long-winded and a bit esoteric, especially when I was just learning about it \u2013 I had to dredge through a lot of content to find what I needed to find.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Phoebe’s solution was to bring together the Almanac \u2013 a straightforward resource that is great for beginners.<\/p>\n “I think that’s why I’m keen to start doing some workshops \u2013 to pass on that knowledge in a straightforward way,” she says.<\/p>\n Phoebe studied landscape design at The University of Melbourne before finding her passion for permaculture which she studied through Milkwood.<\/p>\n “I realised I really wanted to be outside in the landscape rather than designing it from inside,” she says. “So then I went off and did years in permaculture and got all my qualifications in that and was working in food production gardens for a long time.<\/p>\n “Because I was working around food so much, I started working around flowers too because they are part of the growing cycle.<\/p>\n “It kind of just developed from there \u2013 it was a pretty smooth transition.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Phoebe, whose childhood was spent growing up on a farm, can’t help but give a wry smile at the suggestion she appears to have the idyllic job spending her days surrounded by pretty flowers.<\/p>\n Roses, dahlias, hydrangeas, delphiniums, cosmos and many others are among the flowers she grows for wholesale and retail.<\/p>\n “I think it’s like any work, once you do it for a while the magic tends to get worn off a little bit,” she says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “There’s a lot of ideas around flower farming and you see the photos and it does look beautiful but at the same time it is agriculture and it does take a lot of physical labour and time.<\/p>\n “You are constantly living two seasons ahead as well while still managing what’s happening every day. Doing everything biodynamically using the rhythm of the lunar cycle really helps me to maintain structure for the planting.<\/p>\n “I find that really helps me as a farmer to keep a handle on the management of everything.<\/p>\n “It’s so important that flowers are purchased when they are in season and we use what’s in season, rather than imports and flowers that have been grown out of season and forced to flower,” she adds.<\/p>\n While flowers won’t be available for purchase until the spring-summer season, during those months Phoebe sells her gorgeous blooms at stockists such as Boom Gallery in Newtown, Mortadeli in Torquay and the Queenscliff Grocer.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Alchemilla-076-200x300.jpg\")
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