by Shionagh | Oct 30, 2016 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Recipes, Shionagh's News, Solar Power, Sustainable Living, Weather
Living off-grid require some changes to how you do things. I’ve found it’s been a few small changes that have made the biggest difference in our power consumption. Here are a few of my favorite things that I’ve found useful for off-grid living.
by Shionagh | Sep 29, 2016 | Erosion, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
We’ve been here one year! As we look back at the first months of our first year, we realise that we only noticed the big stuff, the stuff that needed doing. One year later we are amazed at how much we missed of the spring that was blooming around us. In comparison,...
by Shionagh | Sep 8, 2016 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News
Save your egg shells to make great calcium for the garden. Food scraps are great for worms, but worms don’t digest egg shells, so instead of throwing them out, you can store them in a separate container to be ground into calcium powder for the garden.
by Shionagh | Jun 14, 2016 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Shionagh's News, Solar Power, Sustainable Living, Weather
Living off-grid means you are completely dependent on the weather. A cloudy day effects how things are done around the house but three days without sun on the solar panels results in very low power.
by Dave | Mar 12, 2016 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening
We have aimed to get as much food growing as possible since we got here to Arborlon, but most of the vege gardens we have planted so far have been temporary beds. The main reason for this is that there is structural and ground works we have to complete before beds and gardens can become permanent.
by Shionagh | Mar 7, 2016 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
Comfrey helps to provide nutrients for your soil and the leaves are great for the compost heap as comfrey’s quick rotting leaves work with bacteria and soil organisms to help speed the composting of dried leaves and other high carbon materials.
We plant comfrey in all of our garden beds because the deep tap roots help to break up our heavy clay soil.
by Dave | Oct 27, 2015 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Weather
After the promise of rain for a few days, and the disappointment of Sunday’s storm missing us completely, we we very glad to see some rain on Monday afternoon and night.
by Dave | Sep 19, 2015 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Sustainable Living
Being avid gardeners and active community gardeners we had plans for growing our own produce(as we had done in Brisbane) from the very start. So one week after we arrived, we started on the new vege plot.
We started from scratch, on a barren piece of the house hill, that gets lots of sun and is easily accessible.
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