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Let’s get gardening

A READER’S GARDEN

An abundant “farmers’ market”

Within six years of starting a new garden based on permaculture principles on a farm in the Free State, Dorothée Dehon has created a bountiful source of fresh organic vegetables and fruit. She tells Maja Palm how this came about.

She was a city person through and through, Dorothée says. “I grew up in Brussels, Belgium, and my husband, Damien, and I were living in a small town near the city. We were feeling more and more uncomfortable because we knew nothing about the food we were

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