Hi! I'm Tracey, the founder and creator of Red Crate.
A few years after my dad passed away, my mum decided to move out of the family home of 40+ years. The family pitched in to help her sort through, give away, hand down, pass on and pack up years and years of ‘stuff’. Some of the stuff were gardening books I’d had as a young person. I had a revelation and it dawned on me that I’ve always had a passion and interest in nature and gardening. My parents had noticed this and gifted me a membership to a garden club.
Now, years later, the simple life with organic fruit and vegetables, clean air and clean water is what I seek. I enthusiastically waved goodbye to a corporate office job and now fulfil my passion of the natural world with gardening jobs and of course all I do with Red Crate. I am very grateful that I am able to do this.
One of my aims is to turn my rather steep backyard into a Permaculture Food Forest and live off as much home-grown organic nutrient dense food I can. I like to plant using the moon phases. I recycle as much as I can, (my garbage bin is a glass jar) I compost and have worm farms. Sometimes it is hardly worth putting out the wheelie bin.
In the gardening side of my business, I use natural methods to rid pests and diseases, introduce bio controls and use plants that attract beneficial insects to assist with establishing a balanced ecosystem, rather than loading up with chemicals. Reducing plastic is a large component of this.
I now try to live by this ethos:
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, re-cycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
-- Pete Seeger
I thoroughly enjoy my time in the garden and I look forward to gardening with you!
Tracey