The good life
Kim Muffet is taking us on a tour through the enormous food garden at the home he shares with his wife, Wendy, on the rural fringes of the historic NSW gold-mining town of Forbes. We walk past trees laden with citrus, beds filled with salad plants and Asian greens, herbs and asparagus. Kim points out the hugely generous fig tree that provides fruit for the jam and chocolate-dipped candied segments he spoils people with, stone-fruit trees nurturing their summer bounty, a vine-clad arbour that delivers grapes from Christmas through to Easter and provides shade for alfresco meals, and the house in a log that gives shelter to bees and other beneficial insects. All of this is achieved by encouraging soil health without the use of chemicals, judicious companion planting, copious mulching and encouraging biodiversity
