FARMING IN SUBURBIA
In a quiet street in Mittagong, NSW, there’s an ordinary red-brick house on a quarter-acre block. From the front it looks much like every other house, but exit out the back door and you’re drawn into a labyrinth of green. Wiggly paths take you ducking and weaving around garden beds bursting with vegetables, herbs and colourful flowers.
Joanne Dodd bought the property as a single parent in 2005 and began transforming the flat rectangular expanse of lawn, with its iconic Hills Hoist plonked in the middle, into a forager’s wonderland. “I never
