Articles tagged with: Jamberoo Community Growers
Growing Food, Permaculture, Water »
The notes from my recent presentation to Jamberoo Community Growers on swales.
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Businesses, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Permaculture »
Lots of photos from the Kiama Sustainability Expo and Kiama Community Garden Open Day, held on Sunday. There were lots of local organisations and businesses present, as well as celebrity gardener Costa from SBS. What a top day!
Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Media Coverage, Super Challenge »
I was interviewed by Gavin Webber from The Greening Of Gavin as part of a series of podcasts he’s done with sustainable bloggers from around Australia. Let me know what you think!
Frugality, Growing Food, Preparing Food, Recipes »
It sounds really fancy, but it’s actually just a practical way to use up duck egg yolks after making lots of meringues with the whites! Home made pesto is quick and delicious accompaniment that does the pasta justice.
Illawarra Organisations »
Jamberoo Community Growers, a local gardening club affiliated with the Garden Clubs Of Australia, is selling flower bulbs as a fundraiser. We’re hoping to raise enough money to cover our insurance for the year, and maybe some running costs as well.
Growing Food, Household, Preparing Food »
A guest post from Monique Dare-Ward, giving a roundup of some of her favourite herbs that we can all grow in the backyard.
Weekly Roundup »
How to build an automatic chicken coop door opener, the world’s fanciest chicken coop, Kiama Community Garden’s new blog, backyard aquaponics, and Fresh the movie.
Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations, Keeping Animals »
We had a fantastic presentation today at the Jamberoo Community Growers meeting, by the people from Organic Crop Protectants. A big part of the talk was on organic fruit fly control, using their “eco-naturalure” male fruit fly trap and attractant/insecticide products. It looks like a great system to keep these frustrating pests down.
You simply bait [...]
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations »
What a great turnout we had at yesterday’s Jamberoo Community Growers meeting!
Don Cairns, former resident of Kiama and Kangaroo Valley and now living in Nowra, gave an excellent talk about growing food through the season.
Don has been gardening for many years, and understands our climate and weather patterns very well. His tips and local knowledge [...]
Events, Illawarra Organisations »
I attended an event at the Kiama Library last night, “Sustaining The Library”, put on by the Kiama Greens.
Ten years ago, The Greens donated about $1200 worth of books and CDs about the environment and sustainability to the Kiama Library. Last night they did it again. There are some great books in the collection – [...]
