Articles tagged with: jamberoo
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Councils, Permaculture »
Kiama Primary School had the official opening of their permaculture garden on Friday, and I was fortunate enough to be able to attend. What an awesome garden they’ve built!
Events, Growing Food, Keeping Animals »
Wow, what a day! I attended an all-day workshop, right here in Jamberoo, with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm.
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!
Media Coverage, Water »
Photos and videos of Monday’s flooding around Jamberoo.
Keeping Animals »
The pigs have finally reached a good baconer size, and are ready to head off to the abattoir.
Keeping Animals »
The chicken tractor I built with my father a couple of years ago is still going strong. Since moving to Jamberoo we’ve been using it to build garden beds – we place it where we want the bed, leave it there for a few weeks until the grass has been cleared, then move it along [...]
Growing Food, Permaculture »
A few weeks ago I attended another Sustainable Illawarra workshop – “Starting a Backyard Veggie Patch” at Jamberoo Primary School. Megan then attended the repeat of the workshop a week later. It was great that we were both able to do effectively the same workshop without need to organise child care!
The workshop was delivered by [...]
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 [...]
Illawarra Businesses, Keeping Animals, Media Coverage, Water »
There was a very good segment on ABC TV’s Landline show last Sunday, How Green Was My Valley, on the challenges faced by dairy farmers as our climate slowly changes. You can watch it online.
The first 10 minutes or so focuses on a Victorian dairy famer, and the problems he faces when water allocations are [...]
