Road gardening is like talk back radio, but better
Gardening in the street is like talk back radio except the station you choose to listen to is the place where you live. When you garden in the road you have surprising and interesting conversations with complete strangers, or people you’ve seen but never spoken to. It can be more surprising than talk back. And it builds a community where you live, not in the airwaves. You connect with where you are and make connections and discoveries you... Read More
Sustainable house electricity bills things of the past
The latest electricity bill arrived this week. The bill shows the electricity company, Origin Energy, owes me $44.20 for the most recent three month billing period. Adding that sum to the previous credit the company owes me ($69.34), the total accumulated amount owed to me by the company is $113.54. Pleasing to have this money owed to me and to see my solar panels still producing power and sending the surplus, clean, unused solar electricity back... Read More
Spring is coming, we just have to look
Cat watching spring coming Little green, red and bulging shoots are everywhere. Look closely and you’ll see them in the tips of the fruit trees, Midyem Berry bushes, paw paw and other plants in our road gardens. Yes, it’s hard to believe spring is coming but the flowers and fruits are getting ready. Some of our first lemons and limes are ripening, too. All the first year’s fruit was pruned away to direct growth into the tree... Read More
Rain tanks in Peace Park
Excavation for rain tanks in Peace Park Feeling frisky, I climbed to the top of the kid’s play equipment today, there to obtain a better view of the excavations for the new rain tanks to be buried in the park. I took the photo above. There’s some terrific big, hefty sandstone blocks now stored to one side which have been unearthed by the digger. It’d be terrific if the Council can have them kept on site and reused in the Park when... Read More
Warrigal greens in our Chippo urban farm
There are healthy, strong and plentiful outcrops of Warrigal Greens in our Chippo urban farm, particularly in Myrtle street up near City road where I took this photo. This is what the Australian Native Plants Society says about eating and cooking them: “It was widely used as a spinach substitute in the early years of European settlement in Australia and was even taken back to England where it was a popular green vegetable in the early 1800s.... Read More
