Self-sufficient haven on Kangaroo Island | Self-sufficient gardens | Gardening Australia

Описание: "Enough is when your stomach is full, enough is when you're warm and you have time to love each other, to communicate, that's enough." One with nature, Roni Cohen's self-sufficient home and garden is everything he ever hoped for.
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Roni and Cathy Cohen experienced the Kangaroo Island bushfires in early 2020, after this story was filmed.

Fire threatened their property twice.

The second time a large part of the property burnt, but they were able to save their house, two netted orchards and some of the vegetation near the house.

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Roni runs a self-sufficient productive farm, with a large enclosed edible garden with raised beds, large pots and fruit trees.

Behind the house in an old milking shed Roni produces and extracts honey from multiple hives of Ligurian bees.

The house itself was hand built using mud bricks and rammed earth. The uprights were made from fallen timber, foraged and repurposed.

"I don't like straight lines," Ronnie says, "there are no straight lines in nature." They try to blend in to share their property with the birds and spiders and other visitors, though they try to keep the inside to themselves.

Roni was born on the Gaza strip in a refugee camp, surrounded by barbed wire. He grew up on a kibbutz, Karmia, in Israel where he learnt to plant vegie gardens and trees.

For Ronnie, this self-sufficient haven, tucked away on Kangaroo Island is a dream come true.

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