[ November 13, 2010; 9:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The newly-formed Kiama Community Garden is holding an open day to show the public what they’re planning for the site. The location is adjacent to Stage 5 of the Blue Haven Retirement Village – park your car in the Leisure Centre Carpark, and walk up to the garden through the sporting grounds. This is a great opportunity [...]

Effective midnight tonight, the NSW Government has announced a revamping of the Solar Bonus Scheme – the gross feed-in tariff for solar electricity has been reduced from 60c per kWh to 20c per kWh.

The new Green Box Regional Food Cooperative Ltd needs your help to show Matt Brown’s office that they have broad support from within the Kiama community. Please help!

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) has a lot of really good pig keeping information available for free. Here’s my collection of links to their resources.

I spent most of Sunday helping to staff the Jamberoo FutureCare table at the Shellharbour Solar Expo, at Shellharbour Workers’ Club (who actually have 22 kW of solar panels installed themselves – see photo).

The expo was organised by Jamberoo FutureCare, in conjunction with Shellharbour and Kiama Councils. There were a number of solar power and [...]

[ November 21, 2010; 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] Venue: Berry Poultry Pavilion located at the Berry Showground, Alexandra Street, Berry NSW. Date: Sunday 21 November 2010 Time: Poultry Shed will open from 9am to view the birds. The Auction will commence at 10.30am. All buyers must register prior to bidding and payments are by cash only. All birds will have informational cage labels with breed, gender, age [...]

If you’ve got a broody hen, rather than trying to “break her” why not let her raise a clutch of eggs? It requires almost no effort on your part, and is a lot of fun.

There was a little bit of discussion about feeding scraps to pigs on my original entry about our pig project. There are quite strict laws around the feeding of scraps and waste to pigs in Australia (and many other countries), and you really need to make sure you’re doing the right thing.

The NSW Department of [...]

New Scientist magazine has just published an article about the sustainability of kangaroo meat for human consumption. If you’re interested read it now, as I think free access to the full article is removed at some period after publication.

The article looks at issues like methane production, water use, feed conversion efficiency, orphaned joeys, humane harvesting, [...]

[ November 14, 2010; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Kiama FutureCare is pleased to invite you to attend a “Sustainability Summit” from 2 pm on Sunday 14th November at Jamberoo School of Arts, 28 – 30 Allowrie St, Jamberoo (opposite the Bowling Club). The aim of this event is to: Gauge whether there is interest from local environmental/sustainability groups to work towards a coordinated “Transition Initiative” [...]