Laying local is city news
The latest issue of one of Sydney’s inner city newspapers, City News, has a beaut photo of one of the chooks here, Bob, on the front cover. That chook; there’s no holding her back. It’s part of a story about the Walk Against Warming on Sunday 15 August, this weekend, and the story is called, Laying local. You can find it here: www.altmedia.net… Or if you wish to download the paper - be warned, it’s 9.2 MB –... Read More
What we did in the road gardens today
Irrigation pipes and comfrey plants Today Karlie, Kath, Rachel, John and Alina worked in the road gardens. We: cleaned the outside of the seven bins in Peace Park cleaned the outside of the six bins in the streets augured all bins and mixed in the fluffy coffee husks from Toby’s Estate one bin in Rose street needed compost from the base of the bin dug out and put on top to make it less smelly and drier had a little pruning workshop on one citrus... Read More
Villages support us most
This week’s column from George Monbiot provides a useful summary with data of the benefits of villages, some of which we’re experiencing in Chippendale’s village-like streets. Here’s some of George’s column: “We are, to a surprising extent, what the built environment makes us. Academic papers show that many of the problems we blame on individual behaviour are caused in part by the places in which we live. People... Read More
A loss in the street
Two fruit trees (bush lemons) and a native planted to feed and shelter small birds were stolen from our road garden in front of the units at the corner of City Road and Myrtle sometime since last Sunday. Sad to see the empty holes where they’d been pulled out. It looks as tho’ someone’s stealing them to sell not to vandalise. I try to let pass the hurts of theft, death and vandalism of our plants. And to try for the road gardener’s... Read More
Food Connect’s record for July
Food Connect, the fruit and veggies box service for which I’m a volunteer City Cousin (ie folks can collect their boxes from my house) has just sent their monthly report for environmental and social impacts and in summary: - over the month of July the social and environmental impact has been: Households/week: 180 City Cousins: 19 Price to farmers: 40c/$ Organic or chemical free: 100% Food miles: 212 km For more information: sydney.foodconnect.com… To... Read More
