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Let there be light (in the chook house) and other solar shenanigans

An afternoon of fiddling gives the chooks light, fixes a problem in the greenhouse and slows down a fan. A day we’ll spent I reckon!

Don’t forget…

Do you want to learn more about our local food champions and how we can all shape our local food system? Come along to the SA Urban Food Network’s Stories of Local Food Thursday 27 May at the Joinery to listen + get inspired! We are presenting about Ligaya Garden, and there are other fabulous…

New beds (for the aquaponics that is)

A bit of DIY and some scraps and we have floating rafts in the new aquaponics bed.

Training the Oysters to eat dog poo

We’re getting lots of spent grain and woodchip spawn from Danny at Barossa Gourmet Mushrooms and have been building it up in piles around the garden. We’re benefitting from an extra flush of mushrooms and the critters in the garden are feasting madly on the mycelium, breaking it down into nutrients that the plants can…

Wild fungi updates

It’s mushroom time and we’ve updated all of our mushroom entries on the Wild Fungi page. There’ll be a foraging field trip this Winter too if you’re good.