Darling View Farm
Permaculture and Aquaponics
Welcome to the age of HomeFarming
We are a permaculture farm in Bouvard, Western Australia, our aim is to produce a wide range of home-grown eggs, fruit, veg and honey in a sustainable, economic way. By giving tours of our farm, we hope to help others discover new ways to design and build their own productive permaculture garden. Permaculture is a way of designing your backyard to work like a natural ecosystem, where everything supports everything else. Instead of fighting nature, you work with it - planting fruit trees that provide shade, growing vegetables underneath them and letting chickens scratch below to eat pests and fertilise the soil. The idea is to stack useful plants and animals together so that the whole garden produces more food and requires less effort over time In practice it means things like collecting rainwater to feed your garden beds, composting kitchen scraps to feed the soil, planting natives to attract beneficial insects, and choosing perennial plants that come back year after year without replanting. A well designed permaculture backyard gradually becomes more productive and self sustaining, giving you food, shade, habitat and resilience - all from a small suburban space!
Permaculture Farm
in Bouvard Western
Australia
Our Chooks
Our chickens are Highlines supplied by the Freemantle Egg Company as Pullets. Now grown to egg layers, they produce fresh eggs daily. Their shed provides secure roosting at night, comfortable nesting boxes and the radio playing during the day so they can relax! They are free to roam our citrus orchard and wood, providing insect control and fertilising the trees. You will find their egg yolks a rich and vibrant orange thanks to their healthy diet which includes Azola grown on our aquaponic pond and Mealworms grown in a special production area.
Wicking Beds
Darling View Farm use Wicking Beds to provide fruit and vegetables. This system provides a Waterwise way to produce food for consumption and sale. A wicking bed is a type of self- watering garden bed that uses a built-in water reservoir to keep your soil consistently moist — without daily watering. Instead of watering from the top and losing moisture to run-off or evaporation, a wicking bed draws water upward from a reservoir at the base, delivering it directly to where your plants need it most — the roots. It’s a highly efficient self-watering garden system — ideal for dry climates, busy gardeners, or anyone wanting to conserve water and it’s proven to reduce water use while improving plant health
Bees
Our beautiful and resourceful Italian honey bees were sustainably resourced from local swarms. Housed in their new Australian Flow Hives, they enjoy the local native flora within the farm & local surrounds boosting pollination. A Flow Hive is a type of beehive developed by Stuart and Cedar Anderson in Australia, first launched in 2015. Its key innovation is the Flow Frame, a specially designed frame with partially formed honeycomb cells that bees complete with wax and fill with honey. Unlike traditional hives, honey can be extracted without opening the hive, brushing off bees, or using centrifugal extractors, making the process cleaner and less stressful for both the beekeeper and the bees.
What We Offer
Fruit & Vegetables
in season fruit and vegetables including passion fruit, figs, lemons and grapefruit.
Preserves
Lemon Butter, Orange Marmalade, Mulberry Jam & of course our own honey.
Free Range Eggs
Healthy eggs from happy chooks!
Video Tours
Learn how you can create a healthy garden in your own back yard. Coming soon!CONTACT US
Are you interested in permaculture and want to know how you can apply it to your garden? send us an email today Email: enquiry@darlingviewfarm.au facebook.com/darlingviewfarm
CALL US
0478 626 443
ADDRESS
PO Box 5969, Falcon, Western Australia
Ask about our farm tours & design
services
Growing produce for yourself and your family is a great way to reduce your food costs, help the environment and
learn new skills.
Due to H5N1 Bird Flu, we are unable to offer any more farm tours however we will soon provide online VIDEO
TOURS showing you a range of ways you can set up your own productive garden at home no matter how small
your yard. We can even help you design the perfect setup for your property using our range of commercially
available, modular, permaculture solutions.
Buying Eggs? Get the App!
We sell our eggs and other produce through our free, easy to use App. You can learn more about the farm, order eggs, jams and honey and pay securely online by debit or credit card.. Please note that we don’t provide mail order, only local delivery and only to the Bouvard, Dawesville and Mandurah areas, so if you live outside these area, please contact us first. You can download our App from this link: Darlingviewfarm.au/app or if you’d just like our free 2026 Chooks Calendar you’ll find it here: 2026 Calendar
© Copyright 2026 Darling View Farm | Hand made by: Westcountry | ABN: 8610 2062 009
Our History
We used to run a 200 acre sheep farm (Dorpers) just south of Donnybrook in WA, we also bred Marron in our many dams and managed a plantation of trees for fine furniture production. We've now moved to a much smaller property in Bouvard and decided to build a Permaculture farm on a 5 acre block, on a 'sand dune', overlooking Collins Pool next to Yalgorup National Park! The reducing rainfall in WA, poor sandy soil and limited acreage are problems that require innovative and sustainable solutions. With plenty of research and a good deal of trial and error, we now have a working, sustainable farm with solar power, water tanks, orchards, wicking beds and very happy chooks!
Support WA FoodBank
We support Mandurah FoodBank, our unsold eggs and other produce go to help those in need. Please consider donating to this excellent cause using the button below.
Resource Management
Are you wasting your most precious resources? Here at Darling View Farm we aim to make the most of everything we have. Our green waste, food scraps, weeds, leaves, shredded paper is all recycled by our chooks, worm farm or compost bins. Don’t waste your most precious resource, almost everything you use can be recycled to improve your garden and the plants that thrive there. Our compost bins and worm farms produce all the fertiliser we need for use on our sandy soils providing the soil microbes and bulk that our plants need.
Permaculture Directory
Want to know where we buy our permaculture equipment, books and supplies from? Find out using our Permaculture Directory
H5N1 Avian Flu arrives in Australia
Sadly the devastating H5N1 outbreak on Heard Island has reached our shores. At Darling View Farm we have implemented our Stage 2 protocols as prevention is better than cure and we're working to keep our flock completely clear of the virus.
Darling View Farm
Permaculture and Aquaponics
Welcome to the age of
HomeFarming
We are a permaculture farm in Bouvard, Western Australia, our aim is to produce a wide range of home- grown eggs, fruit, veg and honey in a sustainable, economic way. By giving tours of our farm, we hope to help others discover new ways to design and build their own productive permaculture garden. Permaculture is a way of designing your backyard to work like a natural ecosystem, where everything supports everything else. Instead of fighting nature, you work with it -planting fruit trees that provide shade, growing vegetables underneath them and letting chickens scratch below to eat pests and fertilise the soil. The idea is to stack useful plants and animals together so that the whole garden produces more food and requires less effort over time In practice it means things like collecting rainwater to feed your garden beds, composting kitchen scraps to feed the soil, planting natives to attract beneficial insects, and choosing perennial plants that come back year after year without replanting. A well designed permaculture backyard gradually becomes more productive and self sustaining, giving you food, shade, habitat and resilience - all from a small suburban space!
Permaculture
Farm in Bouvard
Western Australia
Our Chooks
Our chickens are Highlines supplied by the Freemantle Egg Company as Pullets. Now grown to egg layers, they produce fresh eggs daily. Their shed provides secure roosting at night, comfortable nesting boxes and the radio playing during the day so they can relax! They are free to roam our citrus orchard and wood, providing insect control and fertilising the trees. You will find their egg yolks a rich and vibrant orange thanks to their healthy diet which includes Azola grown on our aquaponic pond and Mealworms grown in a special production area.
Wicking Beds
Darling View Farm use Wicking Beds to provide fruit and vegetables. This system provides a Waterwise way to produce food for consumption and sale. A wicking bed is a type of self-watering garden bed that uses a built-in water reservoir to keep your soil consistently moist — without daily watering. Instead of watering from the top and losing moisture to run-off or evaporation, a wicking bed draws water upward from a reservoir at the base, delivering it directly to where your plants need it most — the roots. It’s a highly efficient self-watering garden system — ideal for dry climates, busy gardeners, or anyone wanting to conserve water and it’s proven to reduce water use while improving plant health
Bees
Our beautiful and resourceful Italian honey bees were sustainably resourced from local swarms. Housed in their new Australian Flow Hives, they enjoy the local native flora within the farm & local surrounds boosting pollination. A Flow Hive is a type of beehive developed by Stuart and Cedar Anderson in Australia, first launched in 2015. Its key innovation is the Flow Frame, a specially designed frame with partially formed honeycomb cells that bees complete with wax and fill with honey. Unlike traditional hives, honey can be extracted without opening the hive, brushing off bees, or using centrifugal extractors, making the process cleaner and less stressful for both the beekeeper and the bees.
What We Offer
Fruit &
Vegetables
in season fruit and vegetables including passion fruit, figs, lemons and grapefruit.
Preserves
Lemon Butter, Orange Marmalade, Mulberry Jam & of course our own honey.
Free Range
Eggs
Healthy eggs from happy chooks!
Video Tours
Learn how you can create a healthy garden in your own back yard. Coming soon!CONTACT US
Are you interested in permaculture and want to know how you can apply it to your garden? send us an email today Email: enquiry@darlingviewfarm.au facebook.com/darlingviewfarm
CALL US
0478 626 443
ADDRESS
PO Box 5969, Falcon, Western Australia
Ask about our farm tours & design
services
Growing produce for yourself and your family is a great
way to reduce your food costs, help the environment
and learn new skills.
Due to H5N1 Bird Flu, we are unable to offer any more
farm tours however we will soon provide online VIDEO
TOURS showing you a range of ways you can set up
your own productive garden at home no matter how
small your yard. We can even help you design the
perfect setup for your property using our range of
commercially available, modular, permaculture
solutions.
Buying Eggs? Get the
App!
We sell our eggs and other produce through our free, easy to use App. You can learn more about the farm, order eggs, jams and honey and pay securely online by debit or credit card.. Please note that we don’t provide mail order, only local delivery and only to the Bouvard, Dawesville and Mandurah areas, so if you live outside these area, please contact us first. You can download our App from this link: Darlingviewfarm.au/app or if you’d just like our free 2026 Chooks Calendar you’ll find it here: 2026 Calendar
© Copyright 2026 Darling View Farm | Hand made by:
Westcountry | ABN: 8610 2062 009
Our History
We used to run a 200 acre sheep farm (Dorpers) just south of Donnybrook in WA, we also bred Marron in our many dams and managed a plantation of trees for fine furniture production. We've now moved to a much smaller property in Bouvard and decided to build a Permaculture farm on a 5 acre block, on a 'sand dune', overlooking Collins Pool next to Yalgorup National Park! The reducing rainfall in WA, poor sandy soil and limited acreage are problems that require innovative and sustainable solutions. With plenty of research and a good deal of trial and error, we now have a working, sustainable farm with solar power, water tanks, orchards, wicking beds and very happy chooks!
Support WA FoodBank
We support Mandurah FoodBank, our unsold eggs and other produce go to help those in need. Please consider donating to this excellent cause using the button below.
Resource Management
Are you wasting your most precious resources? Here at Darling View Farm we aim to make the most of everything we have. Our green waste, food scraps, weeds, leaves, shredded paper is all recycled by our chooks, worm farm or compost bins. Don’t waste your most precious resource, almost everything you use can be recycled to improve your garden and the plants that thrive there. Our compost bins and worm farms produce all the fertiliser we need for use on our sandy soils providing the soil microbes and bulk that our plants need.
Permaculture
Directory
Want to know where we buy our permaculture equipment, books and supplies from? Find out using our Permaculture Directory
H5N1 Avian Flu arrives in
Australia
Sadly the devastating H5N1 outbreak on Heard Island has reached our shores. At Darling View Farm we have implemented our Stage 2 protocols as prevention is better than cure and we're working to keep our flock completely clear of the virus.
