Tag: Sustainability
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Strange clouds over Gawler
We’ve been getting some interesting cloud patterns over Gawler this year. Or is it just that I’m aware of them this time? I’m sure they’re all natural phenomena, but who knows? Water is a strange thing. I’ve decided to chronicle them for readers…here’s the first…
