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Pretty soon – seaweed!

Over the last year, I’ve been interested in adding seaweed to our diet. This Winter, we’ve started to add foraged pieces of these edible algae to to to meals and nibbled on them raw as tasty snacks (there’s little more refreshing than nibbling in some Sea Lettuce while strolling on the beach). In our area…

IGTV aquaponics video

We’ve been playing with IGTV lately as a way to make and distribute videos easily. Here’s one I did today about the aquaponics system. It’s a work in progress but it’s my best one so far! If you’ve got Instagram just click on the image below. If you’re not on Instagram, here’s the YouTube link.

On the verge of a Community garden (maybe)

The verge garden has been complained about and the Council have stepped in so applications are afoot.

Multi tasking to the max

A big part of sustainability and permaculture, if not just trying to grow food in a small space, is getting multiple results from one thing and our laundry bench has evolved into an example of this which ticks the boxes for at least the first three of the permaculture principles and probably a couple more.…

It’s nice to come home

Winter’s almost over and things are starting to burst and bloom in the garden. The Calendulas always brighten up the place (did you know that their name comes from the same origin as our word ‘calendar’ and pertains to the fact that they’re around all year). Jelina’s been a planting flowers around the place so…