Articles tagged with: fruit trees
Featured, Growing Food, Illawarra Councils, Permaculture »
A tour around the Kiama Primary School permaculture garden, with lots of photos.
Keeping Animals »
Meet Jessie, our new family pet and future livestock fox defence system.
Growing Food, Permaculture, Water »
It took a long time, but I finally finished digging the swale across the back of my shed. With mango, banana, coffee, loquats, sweet potato, taro and more it should be a productive little area soon!
Frugality, Gleaning, Illawarra Businesses, Keeping Animals »
A complete summary of the costs for our first foray into raising our own pigs for meat, from piglet purchase right through to slaughter and butchering.
Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Permaculture »
Some ideas for food, medicinal and other useful plants you can place in and around your chicken run for healthy, happy chickens.
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations »
Earlier this year, Megan and I worked with some other local families to start a gardening club called the Jamberoo Family Growers. Unlike traditional garden clubs, this group will have a focus on helping people to grow fruit and vegetables at home, using healthy natural methods and tapping into local knowledge and experience. It will [...]
Permaculture »
We’ll be putting our house here in Kiama on the market very soon Our house is now on the market! If you know someone looking for a house in Kiama, please let them know!
We’ll be listing with Dougmal Kiama.
Our house has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 living areas, double garage, rear entertaining area and a [...]
Gleaning, Preparing Food »
A while ago I noticed some fruit trees growing on the side of various roads around Jamberoo. They looked like peach or nectarine trees, but I couldn’t be sure without seeing the fruit. I kept checking on them every month or so, and early this year saw young fruit that showed they were peach trees.
Once [...]
Electricity, Transport, Waste, Water »
If you live in Australia, did you know that you can now access green retrofits for your house for free?
Check out all the sustainable retrofit rebates available here in Australia. Make sure you scroll to the bottom and find your state ones, too.
You could get a rainwater tank, a solar hot water system, solar electricity, [...]
Growing Food »
Sometimes, it’s interesting to do a bit of background research on some of the plants and trees you grow. When choosing our mandarin variety, I did exactly that and found something with a little bit of Australian history to it.
The mandarin I planted a couple of days ago is an Ellendale mandarin. It is named [...]
