Winter is the season of abundance at Aanandaa. As the sun filters through our trimmed trees, the vegetable beds come alive with cauliflowers, cabbages, broccoli, peas, tomatoes, leafy greens, radishes, carrots, turnips and more.

In this episode of Permaculture Living with MLG, I talk about the peculiar logic of the winter vegetable garden—shorter days, the need for more sunshine and space, and crops where one whole plant may give us just one vegetable. Yet the sheer diversity of the winter harvest is astonishing.

From crucifers and greens to roots and peas, winter reminds us what seasonal eating really looks like. I like to think of fruit as cleansing and vegetables as healing—and winter is certainly the season when the garden invites us to eat our vegetables!

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We once had a lively flock of geese at Aanandaa—until bird flu swept through and left us with just two survivors. We didn’t know whether they were male or female, but when they began laying eggs, we waited hopefully for goslings. Year after year, they made their nest, laid a clutch and sat patiently on their eggs. Nothing ever hatched.

Eventually we realised the simple truth: both our surviving geese were female.

What followed was my surprisingly difficult search for a gander, and a growing awareness of just how much these birds seemed to miss having a larger flock and the opportunity to raise young. I never managed to find them a mate, and eventually we lost them too.

In this episode of Permaculture Living with MLG, I recount the story of our last two geese—and reflect on what keeping animals teaches us about companionship, instinct, responsibility and loss on a farm.

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Growing wheat taught us far more than how to produce grain. It taught us that farming is not just about soil, seeds and rainfall. It is also about markets, logistics, relationships and trust. If we truly want regenerative agriculture to succeed, we cannot only teach farmers how to grow better crops. We must also help them build better ways to sell them.

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