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New aquaponics bed

We’ve finally filled the 4th bed in our aquaponics system! We can segregate the plants a little more now. Theres one bed for Warrigal Greens, one for River Mint, the third is for Kangkong and the last is Sweet Potato (for the delicious leaves). The next goals are to connect up the NFT table (it…

Aircon for the chooks

It gets hot here in Oz in Summer, so I thought I’d give the girls a little treat. They like sitting under the rain tank next to the chook run on hotter days, so I helped them out by placing a fan under their house that would blow cool, moist air through their run. It’s…

Mal’s at the Sustainable Living Festival

Well, it looks like I’ll be at the Sustainable Living Festival at Pioneer Park in Gawler at about 10.30. It’ll be an early rise for me on a Sunday, but I promise to eat a healthy brekky and be there on time. What an I doing there? I’ll be rabbiting on about edible weeds and…

Milk Kefir cheese

Making kefir into cheese.

Giving the garden a mind of its own

It looks like a mess and there is a little irony in the above pic. The irony is that I’m putting in sensors and all kinds of electronic bits so that our garden can monitor itself and communicate with me via my smartphone. In that sense, its like giving it its own nervous system, using…