Nourished Landscapes · Jimboomba, QLD

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Permaculture designer, consultant & workshop facilitator — growing a nourished world, one landscape at a time.

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Doreen Jachmann holding freshly harvested kale
10+Years
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Hi, I'm

Doreen Jachmann

Founder of Nourished Landscapes — passionate advocate for sustainable living, food sovereignty, and the transformative power of permaculture.

I'm an experienced and qualified gardener who believes growing your own food is one of the most nourishing things you can do — for yourself, your family, and the planet.

Nourished Landscapes was founded to share everything I've learned — through workshops, property consultations, and one-on-one coaching — so others can create their own thriving, edible landscapes.

Bachelor of Horticulture Environmental Monitoring Cert IV Training & Assessment Permaculture Design Soil & Water Science

My Journey

Rooted in the Earth

A life shaped by gardens, community, and an unshakeable belief that food is medicine — and growing it is joy.

Early Childhood · East Germany

Seeds of a Passion

I grew up in a small village south of Berlin in former communist East Germany, where keeping a food garden was everyday life. From an early age I claimed a quarter of my parents' 1,000 sqm property — a thriving food garden with medicinal flowers woven among the vegetables and crops.

Teenage Years · Saxdorf

The Saxdorfer Pfarrgarten

I volunteered at the locally renowned Saxdorfer Pfarrgarten — a celebrated historic garden where I deepened my plant knowledge and mastered traditional garden techniques, gaining an appreciation for the living relationship between people and place.

Formal Education

Science Meets Pedagogy

I pursued formal education in Environmental Monitoring of Soil and Water, earned a Bachelor of Horticulture, and completed a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment — alongside many additional specialist courses.

2016 – Present · Jimboomba, QLD

Building Nourished Homestead

Since March 2016 I've been transforming five bare acres in Jimboomba into a Land for Wildlife property — implementing permaculture design while running a full business, and sharing every hard-won lesson through workshops and consultations.

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Permaculture Design

Certified Designer

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Bachelor of Horticulture

Formal Qualification

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Env. Monitoring

Soil & Water Science

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Cert IV TAE

Training & Assessment

Nourished Landscapes — Nourished Homestead
My Home

Nourished Homestead

From bare paddocks to a sustainable, food-producing, disaster-prepared homestead.

Nourished Homestead is a 5-acre Land for Wildlife property in Jimboomba — an area known as a "rain shadow", receiving far less annual rainfall than greater Brisbane. I've been implementing a full permaculture design while running a business full-time, with the aim to be off-grid and more self-sufficient.

Since I moved in March 2016, an abundance of native trees and shrubs has taken root. I've built perennial growing systems, water-harvesting earthworks, a zero-waste nursery and worm farm, a grey-water garden, and wicking beds. I also raise ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens and pigs on-site, use hot and cold smokers, and keep native and European honeybee hives.

Different regenerative planning and management techniques are applied throughout — and there is always another project in the works to add resilience to this place.

One of the homestead pigs looking into the camera

What I've Built

Elements of the Homestead

Each element adds another layer of resilience. There is always a project in the works.

Cold smokehouse

Cold Smokehouse

Adds delicious cold smoke flavour to cheese, eggs, spices and meat without cooking them.

Nursery

Zero-Waste Nursery

Catches irrigation water and houses 6 bathtub worm farms, closing the loop on nutrients and water.

Food forest

Permaculture Food Forest

A multi-level fruit tree forest designed to produce abundant food with minimal ongoing inputs.

Syntropic system

Syntropic System

Fruit trees, fodder, bananas and edible support plants grown in syntropic agroforestry succession.

No-dig garden

No-Dig Veggie Garden

Low-maintenance vegetable production using a layered soil-building mulch method.

Cabin

Cabin in the Food Forest

A tiny-house inspired timber cabin nestled among the trees — accommodation for interns and visitors.

Off-grid kitchen

Off-Grid Kitchen

Right next to my events area where I hold monthly workshops. Powered by wood, not the grid.

Hot smoker

Hot Smoker

A double barrel smoker for hot smoking meats and produce harvested right on the homestead.

Animals

Ethical Animal Husbandry

Ducks, geese, guinea fowl and sheep — and from time to time pigs and broilers — raised with care.

Rocket mass heater

Rocket Mass Heater

An efficient, low-cost system transferring heat to a thermal mass that radiates warmth slowly with minimal emissions.

Wicking beds

Wicking Bed Kitchen Garden

15 self-watering raised garden beds built from IBCs, keeping roots perfectly moist with minimal water.

Hügelkultur

Hügelkultur Beds

Mounds built over decomposing wood — a self-fertilising, water-retaining system for perennial edibles.

Rotational grazing

Rotational Grazing Paddocks

Half the property managed through rotational grazing — mimicking natural herd movement to restore soil health.

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Kind Words

What People Say

From the gardens and workshops of Nourished Landscapes

★★★★★

Doreen is a ball of inspirational energy and so generous with their knowledge and time. We attended a workshop in 2022 and had Doreen consult on our property — wish we lived closer to absorb every bit of wisdom. Inspiring work.

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Tam Heit

Workshop Attendee

Doreen's workshop

★★★★★

Doreen's workshops are brilliant. I have attended two so far and learned so much — and they were great fun. Highly recommended!

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Genevieve Carlton

Workshop Attendee

Doreen's workshop

★★★★★

Such an amazing time at Nourished Landscapes! Doreen has a wealth of information to share and I very much look forward to returning. It's wonderful to see the practical application of the techniques being taught.

Trusted By

Proud to have worked with

Brisbane City Council

Brisbane City Council

City of Logan

City of Logan

Bulimba Creek Catchment

Bulimba Creek Catchment

Land for Wildlife

Land for Wildlife

Community Gardens Australia

Community Gardens Australia

Albert Valley Wilderness Society

Albert Valley Wilderness Society

It's Time To

Learn the art of gardening & create an edible nourished landscape in your own backyard

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