by Dave | Jun 1, 2019 | Bush Restoration, Native Animals, Native Plants, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening
Bees and Water! A dangerous subject…. but an important one.< br />< br />
Bees are a vital part of the world environment and here at Arborlon they play an important and indeispensible job across the gardens and the forest.
by Dave | May 9, 2019 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Living, Vermiculture
We run multiple ‘worms farms’ and once or twice a year we clean out the farms, collect the castings and the ‘worm juice’.
by Dave | Feb 3, 2018 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening
Almost to the day…. two years after we harvested our last pineapples… new pineapples appeared.
Everything we had read and researched had said it would be two years till we saw more -and they were spot on.
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 | Dec 12, 2017 | Construction, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Living
With the Compost Wall finished, we set about building our new large Compost bins. The fun part was always going to be the digging the 8 post hole needed to make the bin.
The ground here is like rock!
by Shionagh | Nov 9, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living, Vermiculture
We literally have worms everywhere!
We have four worm bins in our container shed where we turn our food scraps into worm castings and worm juice.
by Shionagh | Aug 10, 2017 | Growing Food, Native Birds, Native Plants, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living, Weather
By our estimations, the house here at Arborlon was built about 20 years ago.We don’t know who built it, but as we’ve lived here now for two years, we’ve noticed how well they designed the aspects of the house to achieve natural heating and cooling. We have no need for heating or air-conditioning!
by Shionagh | May 23, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
Being off-grid, we try to make use of everything. The rule of Reduce, Re-use and Recycle is always on our mind here at Arborlon. So when we had accumulated enough flour containers, we decided to make them into something useful instead of tossing them in the recycling bin. In their second life they have become cloches in our veggie garden to help protect our young seedlings from being eaten by critters.
by Shionagh | May 5, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Recipes, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
What do you do when nature throws you too much spinach, you make Spanikopita!
Growing your own food is one thing, but eating the food you grow is a whole other thing. You have to be prepared with recipes and ideas of how to use the abundance of food that nature gives you, which prompted me to start posting some recipes to help us all use our home grown veg. So,
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.
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