Before we began our house renovations, we had to pack up half our belongings so the back of the house could be demolished. We decided to get rid of a few things such as an old desk, dishwasher, light fittings, kitchen shelving and so on that we knew we wouldn’t use in the new extension. [...]
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Freecycle
Posted in Useful resources on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Understanding the sun
Posted in Saving the environment, Useful resources, tagged solar panels, sun on August 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
There are many situations when it’s useful to know the movements of the sun, which is why I was pleased to come across suncalc.net. Built on top of Google Maps, you type in an address and a date, and it shows you the track of the sun, from sunrise to sunset. For example, the screenshot [...]
Picking up our first Petersham food box
Posted in Local issues, Useful resources, tagged chippendale, co-op, food box, jura books, organic, petersham on July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back when we were in Chippendale, we used to pickup a weekly food box containing locally-sourced fruit and vegetables, most organic. This worked very well for us, and the variation week-to-week spiced up our cooking. (See Food for the Future for details on the Chippendale food box.) Now that we’re in Lewisham, driving to Chippo [...]
Grants for community gardens
Posted in Useful resources, tagged community gardens, grants on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Open Garden scheme has just announced details on their 2009 grants program for community gardens. This gives cash to community gardens across Australia that are of ” lasting benefit to the local and wider community” and are “accessible to the public on a permanent or semi-permanent basis”. I think it’s wonderful that there is [...]
Free local food (it’s legal … really!)
Posted in Useful resources on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine, Trina, has a great blog called Greenfoot. Recently, Trina created a feral fruit tree map using Google maps which shows where fruit can be picked (legally) in her local area of Ryde. I love this idea! We used to live in Chippendale, just around the corner from Myrtle Street. Myrtle Street [...]
Growing from seed
Posted in Growing our own food, Useful resources, tagged gardening, heirloom, seedlings, seeds on June 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A lot of what we’ve grown has been from seed, rather than seedlings. What has been interesting is that plants from seeds have consistently grown quicker and stronger than seedlings. For example, our sugar snap peas from seeds are gowing incredibly, while the seedlings of snow peas from the local garden store have barely moved [...]
Inner west community gardens
Posted in Useful resources, tagged community gardens, gardens, glebe, lilyfield, marrickville, newtown, petersham, redfern, rozelle on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are a number of community gardens in the Inner West of Sydney (and many more beyond). These provide a great opportunity for those with small gardens (or no gardens!) to grow their own vegetables, herbs and fruit. Today we visited the Marrickville Food Forrest, located on Addison Road, in the Addison Road Centre (ARC). [...]
Gardenate: online gardening calendar
Posted in Useful resources, tagged calendar, gardening on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just stumbled across the Gardenate site, which provides a free planting calendar for multiple climactic zones in Australia, NZ and the UK. Super easy to use, a wonderful resource!
