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Max
Bahrfeldt

Max Bahrfeldt started The Food Garden Group a decade ago after retiring from many years of full-time teaching, managing and designing courses for adult education. The aim of the group is to create an active community of Tasmanian food gardeners, who freely share their knowledge, surplus produce, seeds and plants. Meeting other food gardeners face to face is an important part of the group, and through this many food gardeners have found new friends with like-minded interests. Members include beginners, experienced food gardeners, and some horticultural professionals.


Max Bahrfeldt started The Food Garden Group a decade ago after retiring from many years of full-time teaching, managing and designing courses for adult education. The aim of the group is to create an active community of Tasmanian food gardeners, who freely share their knowledge, surplus produce, seeds and plants. Meeting other food gardeners face to face is an important part of the group, and through this many food gardeners have found new friends with like-minded interests. Members include beginners, experienced food gardeners, and some horticultural professionals.


Blogs

Compost heaps and worm farms

by Max Bahrfeldt
07 May 2022

What are the benefits of having a compost heap in your food garden? And how do these benefits compare with having a worm farm?

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The complete guide to growing apricots

by Max Bahrfeldt
29 Nov 2021

Apricots are at their best when picked ripe and eaten soon after, and shop-bought apricots are grown for looks rather than taste - so there are two very good reasons why every food garden should have an apricot tree.

Tasmanian Voices

Backyard biochar

by Max Bahrfeldt
13 Nov 2021

In the Amazon basin of South America, where heavy rains leach soils of nutrients very quickly, the indigenous Indians found that adding charcoal soaked with beneficial liquids prevented this. This soil additive is now known as biochar. Ready-to-use...

Tasmanian Voices

The tomato Olympics

by Max Bahrfeldt
12 Aug 2021

The variety that Max K grew is an American heirloom that was originally called sprint but renamed Kotlas (after a city in north-west Russia) when it became clear that another tomato variety had already been named Sprint. Max K bought the Kotlas...

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