by Shionagh | Dec 29, 2017 | Erosion, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
We grow our own food as much as possible, but with the restricted water here lately as well as the fact that we are still getting established, we’ve found that we need to source food grown locally. Buying from local food stands, we find there is less packaging, we know the food is fresh, we pick it up on our way in or out of town with no special trips necessary.
We’ve gotten so good at keeping food in stock at home now, we only go into town once or maybe twice a week.
by Dave | Oct 6, 2017 | Bush Restoration, Construction, Native Plants, News From The Edge
After clearing and widening the Dragonfuit level with the excavator we needed to plant out the new bank we had created at the eastern end of the level.
The bank was made with excess mountain soil from the excavation.
by Dave | Aug 26, 2017 | Construction, Native Plants, News From The Edge
We finished off the Grevillea garden on the Tank Level today.
It’s a good feeling, to get it finished, to get plants in the ground and see how it will all potentially look.
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 | Dec 30, 2015 | News From The Edge
When we first moved in, we quickly created a raised veggie bed to produce food and within the next month our tomatoes, capsicum, asparagus, eggplant, string beans, broad beans, pumpkin and snow peas will start producing.
To help make the garden bed as productive as possible we added mushroom compost that we bought from the side of the road from a mushroom producer, mountain soil we collected from piles that have been excavated from the side of the mountain to maintain the roads after rock slides when it rains, plus we added horse manure we had also bought in bags locally.
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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