Candlelight Farm Permaculture

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Candlelight Farm

The original Candlelight Farm was a 2 acre permaculture (Pc) property is located 30 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia, in the Darling Range. When Candlelight Farm started in Horea, in 1992, the property contained little more then a few gum trees. It was designed as a demonstration of a permaculture system. The farm has come along since then, but has now been sold and the current new owners are continuing to develop the property. You can order books and videos published by Candlelight Farm.

The property has a passive solar house, greywater re-use system, intensive gardens, aquaculture tanks and nursery, general plant propagation areas, large variety of poultry, compost production, worm farm, specialist fruit and nut trees, and heaps more.

The new Candlelight Farm has been built and now located on a new property in Mundaring. Candlelight Farm is also the name of the permaculture business.

Candlelight Farm contains:

Passive solar home featuring

• rammed earth bricks
• solar air heaters
• natural timber finishes
• rammed earth paths

Domestic on-site waste disposal system

• DOWMUS dry composting toilet
• approved greywater disposal and infiltration system
• trials of greywater treatment using flowforms and native plants for nutrient stripping

Companion planted gardens

• orchard areas

Propagation areas

• hot house
• shadehouse

Compost production areas

Specialist trees

• fodder species - tagasaste, acacias, oaks, poplars, grasses and bamboos
• fruit and nut trees
• water, salt and clay tolerant species
• dryland species