Articles tagged with: vegetable garden
Featured, Growing Food »
A visit to Granddad’s garden on ANZAC Day, and it’s still exactly as it was when I was a toddler.
Frugality, Growing Food, Household, Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
A cheap and simple home-made chicken processing station. It also doubles as a very handy outdoor sink for washing vegetables, plant pots and tools.
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 »
If you want to clear a large area of land with little effort, you can’t beat a pig tractor!
Growing Food, Permaculture »
By “chopping and dropping” your weeds you not only mulch and return nutrients to the soil, but you avoid disturbing the soil surface and prevent more weed seeds germinating.
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 [...]
Growing Food »
Soil blockers are a great way to start seeds for your garden, but some of the recipes you’ll find around the web aren’t exactly sustainable – including things like peat moss and artificial nutrients.
I’ve tried to take the general ideas from other recipes, and make a more environmentally-friendly soil blocker mix. The main change is [...]
Growing Food »
A couple of years ago I bought a soil blocker with some birthday money.
Incidentally, it was way cheaper to get it sent from the US than to buy it in Australia – something like 40% cheaper for exactly the same product made by the same manufacturer. It seems the manufacturer or distributor is not very responsive [...]
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 [...]
