How does your garden grow?
That’s a question that Kilkenny grower, gardener, filmmaker and photographer Shane Hatton has answered in a mini-documentary, available this week on YouTube called Growing in Bosco’s Boots: Our Permaculture Story.
Over the course of a half hour, the documentary produced by Shane and Kay Hatton, takes you on the journey that created Bosco’s Garden at the Hatton homestead about three miles outside Kilkenny city centre. From grassroots to market garden, to fill menus on local restaurants and beyond, Shane’s growing adventures have been well documented in recent years but now all tie together nicely in a viewing fitting of the story and surrounds.
As the YouTube channel suggests, this is “a little documentary film we made chronicling the creation of our no dig permaculture homestead, market garden and food forest in Kilkenny, Ireland. Over 4 years, we transformed an empty field into a garden, including wildlife ponds for nurturing a balance of biodiversity; A garden ecosystem that we came to find integral to growing healthy plants and truly organic food. We set up a farm shop that surged in popularity over the years and we even began supplying local restaurants with our amazing vegetables grown in living soil. This is our story. A tale of growth. A film and a dream, many years in the making. A dedication to my brother, Bosco, and our garden which we named in his memory. A testament to the utility and satisfaction of gardening/farming with nature.”
The Hatton’s journey has gathered support too with close to 7,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel. If permaculture is your bag, Shane’s also produced Whole In The Ground, The Story of Permaculture and a 24-minute piece, Bill Mollison: The Father of Permaculture.
