7 Cost-Effective Vegetables To Grow At Home
These seven cost-effective vegetables to grow in your garden will not only save you money, they’ll offer you year-round harvests from your own garden or balcony.
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How To Plant A Berry Patch
Winter is the perfect time to prepare your patch for that crop of summer berries you’ve always wanted.
Home Composting: All Your Questions Answered
Need some home composting assistance? We’ve put together some of the common questions we receive to help you with any issues you may be having with your composting pile.
5 Reasons To Plant Hops At Home
Think only craft beer enthusiasts have a reason to plant hops at home? Think again! Much more than an essential component of beer, hops (Humulus lupulus) is a pretty perennial plant with many uses. Hops are actually a bine, and not a vine, as they don’t…
Composting Seeds, Pips, Stones… & Other Tricky Things!
Composting seeds, pips, stones, citrus, garlic and onion needn’t be a hassle. We show you how to turn these scraps into garden gold.
Designing a Fruit Tree Guild
Create a thriving and productive mini ecosystem that supports your fruit tree by designing a fruit tree guild – a permaculture technique in which a group of plants are chosen to complement and support a central plant.
Growing Pineapples From Tops
Don’t discard that prickly pineapple top, put it to good use instead. We show you how to start growing pineapples from tops.
Making Newspaper Seedling Pots
Making newspaper seedling pots is an inexpensive and sustainable way to raise your seedlings. Not only are you eliminating plastic from the process, but it’s better for your plants, too. There are so many advantages to using paper seedling pots. In…
Coloured Chicken Eggs: Breeds That Lay Outside The Spectrum
From the snow white eggs from a Leghorn to the deep browns of the Marans, find out which chicken breed produces which coloured eggs.
5 Edible Flowers To Grow In Your Garden
Anyone interested in edible gardening tends to grow vegetables, but have you ever considered growing edible flowers?
5 Unexpected Benefits of Going Zero Waste
We bring you the top five unexpected benefits you’ll experience once you commit to going zero waste.
How To Make Weed Tea Fertiliser
Turning your weeds into tea gets rid of them for good while producing an inexpensive and nutritious fertiliser for your garden. Pulling weeds out of your garden is one thing, but disposing of them once out of the soil in…
How To Make Zero Waste Natural Bath Bombs
Make your own beautiful zero waste natural bath bombs with our simple recipe.
How To Trellis Tomatoes
There are so many variables when it comes to working out the best technique for how to trellis tomatoes. We can learn a lot from people who grow them for a living.
How To Build A Wicking Bed
We know plants need water to grow, but understanding when and how much they need can seem like a mystery only “green thumbs” can solve. We show how you how to make your own wicking bed.
Growing & Planting Raspberries
Learn how to plant and grow raspberries in your own backyard. They're easy to grow and don't take up much space.
Chicken Breeds Chart: Choosing Your Backyard Chickens
This chicken breeds chart includes the most common chicken breeds available in Australia with a guide to the characteristics of each breed. Find out which backyard hen is best for you.
Jumbleberry Pie Recipe
After a morning bike ride collecting blackberries with the kids I was inspired to bake a berry pie. So I went through my archives and found this super yummy jumbleberry pie recipe that baker extraordinaire and pastry chef Nelleke Gorton taught me how to bake. Real crust, fresh local berries... beautiful.
8 Ways To Live a Sustainable Lifestyle
We bring you eight key areas to tackle if you want to get started on the path to sustainable living.
Seed Germination: Growing Food From Seed
Growing your own food from seed can be really empowering, but many people find it challenging, so we guide you every step of the way so you can get it right!
What Kind of Tomatoes Should I Grow?
We help you choose the best kind of tomatoes to grow based on for your situation – whether that’s home garden, balcony or farm. When it comes to growing tomatoes, there are so many varieties to choose from and it can…
