Category: Growing Food
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Old Garden Tools Are The Best
Here’s another quick tip for gardeners: you can get awesome garden tools for next to nothing by buying second hand! You can find garden tools going cheap at garage sales, online at places like Facebook or Craigslist, and at tip shops. I like to go for the older tools. They don’t look as ‘nice’ as…
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Hand Tool Storage In The Garden
Don’t you hate not having the garden tools you need when you need them? You just came out to water and spot a nice lettuce, but you don’t have a knife on you to cut it. Or you want to clip off a broccoli head but don’t have your garden shears. So you try to…
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The 6-Bay Chicken Garden Rotation System
The 6-bay chicken garden rotation system is a low-labour, high-yield intensive vegetable gardening system designed to produce a continual supply of seasonal food for our household throughout the year.
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Wollongong PCYC Permaculture Community Garden Tour
A tour of the Wollongong PCYC permaculture community garden – very heavy on photos and detailed explanations.
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Sustainability Books
Here’s a bunch of recent books and eBooks that might be of interest to people trying to live more sustainably and explore the simple life.
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Two Illawarra Permaculture Courses
Introduction to Permaculture courses in Berry, and a full PDC in Warrawong – some exciting local permaculture events coming up!
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Joel Salatin Workshops In Kiama!
I’m super excited – I’ll be going to Joel Salatin’s “You Can Farm” workshop in Kiama on Sunday (Feb 17). Only three sleeps to go!
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Mount Terry Public School Permaculture Garden Opening
A very photo-heavy tour of the permaculture garden that was recently opened at Mt Terry Public School in Albion Park.
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ANZAC Day 2012 – Granddad’s Garden
A visit to Granddad’s garden on ANZAC Day, and it’s still exactly as it was when I was a toddler.
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Corn Eaten By Pests!
I had a beautiful crop of corn growing. Now I have bare cobs. Not happy!