The Plummery is a tiny urban permaculture system in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, that proves it’s not about the size of your garden, but how you design it! 

At just 1/14th of an acre (280m2), The Plummery has produced up to 450kg of herbs, veggies, fruit and eggs in a single year; enough to supply almost all the fresh food needs of two adults with just four hours of management every week.

Treasures at The Plummery include vegetable and herb gardens, a mini food forest, a deep litter compost-producing quail aviary, a light earth studio, laundry and shower grey water systems, a well-stocked pantry and a cranky old weatherboard house, retrofitted to be a little more comfortable and a lot kinder to the planet.

The Plummery has been featured by RetroSuburbia, Gardening Australia, Happen Films, The Age/SMH, Milkwood Permaculture, Gardening Australia magazine, ReNew magazine, Green magazine, Earth Garden magazine, Gestalten’s ‘Urban Farmers: The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City’ and ‘Urban Homesteads’ by Rebecca Gross.

If you’d like to take a look around The Plummery, in person and online tours can be arranged upon request.