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Welcome to White Strawberries, where gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living nourish body, mind, and planet. I’m Sam—a gardener, mum, educator, and self-confessed "lazy gardener" who loves working efficiently for maximum, delicious returns.
Each week, we explore practical ways to grow nutrient-dense food, foster resilience, and cultivate vibrant flowers for pure joy. From building food forests, living mulches, and fruit guilds to mastering plant propagation, composting, and soil health—we take the guess work out of the garden.
We dive into real-world growing: growing mushrooms, raising backyard poultry and livestock safely, fermenting, seed soaking, and managing garden extremes like storms and summer heat. Because when you design with nature and build biodiversity, everything thrives.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced grower, join me each week to simplify your garden and maximize your yield!
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Dr. Sarah Clews (Sez the Vet) is a qualified veterinarian, educator, and the founder of Sez the Vet, a clinic and online consultancy dedicated to lifestyle block animals and backyard poultry. Passionate about practical, preventive, and ethical care, she empowers owners to manage livestock health, navigate biosecurity, and integrate animals seamlessly into their gardens.
Jo Duff is a permaculture practitioner, educator, and the co-founder of Kahikatea Farm, a certified organic food forest nursery based in Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand. With over 20 years of hands-on experience transforming 16 acres of bare land into a thriving, multi-functional ecosystem, her work focuses on designing resilient food forests, soil building, and organizing plants by their ecological function to work alongside nature.
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Kath Irvine is a permaculture gardener, designer, and the author of The Edible Backyard and Homegrown Fruit: A Practical Guide. With over 20 years of experience creating productive food systems, her work focuses on helping gardeners build soil health, foster biodiversity, and work alongside nature to grow low-input, highly resilient edible gardens.
Levi Brinsdon-Hall is a regenerative grower, teacher, and the founder of Delicious Revolution. His work centers on helping people master practical growing skills—such as seed saving and propagation—to build self-sustaining food forests and resilient ecosystems without relying on store-bought plants.
Robin Mann is an outdoor educator and founder of Grow Wild Education. Driven by a vision to inspire confident and connected children, she specializes in immersive, nature-based learning that fosters independence, resilience, and a deep sense of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) for the land. Through hands-on discovery and unstructured outdoor exploration, Robin helps children build practical life skills and develop a lifelong connection to the natural world.