Gardening in road gardens
Hi, there, Gardeners We’ll be gardening this Friday from 9 to 12 noon and some things we’ll do include: Auger and aerate the compost bins Remove any compost and distribute on gardens Put up some contact point signs on the bins Transplant a fruit tree that’s not getting enough (six hours) sun Put some ‘Pestoil’ that we’ll make ourselves on some fruit trees with bugs Talk to Michael Neville, Council’s Waste Officer, about... Read More
Food scarcity in Australia soon
The ABC has initiated a terrific documentary on food production in Australia and worldwide and the first installment, Selling the farm, is here: www.abc.net… Some data in the program comes from Julian Cribb in a new book to be published this week, The Coming Famine, by University of California Press and the CSIRO. As far as my research shows the only government exploring Australia’s food growing capacity is Victoria’s. It’s... Read More
Stormwater control on billion dollar project
Billion dollar stormwater control Walking back down Broadway today I checked the stormwater pond on the north western corner of the billion dollar Frasers’ Broadway project. The photo shows world best practice stormwater control which is directing muddy water off site to Blackwattle Bay. A pit in the centre of the muddy pond has some fabric pinned into the mud by four star pickets and the water in the pond fills and enters through the fabric... Read More
Painting Chippo’s bins and signal boxes
Painted signal box in Brisbane A project has been going in Brisbane for several years where artists paint traffic signal boxes, called Urban Smart Boxes: www.urbansmartprojects.com… I’m going to start things moving to have ours painted by artists, too, and wonder if anyone would like to be involved and help me? I’d like to have our compost bins painted, too, and make them as beaut as some of those boxes being painted in Brisbane. May... Read More
Brown muddy stormwater in Broadway
Brown mud in grate from Fraser's building site, Broadway On Saturday, yesterday, I took a photo of brown muddy water in the stormwater grate on the southern side of Broadway at the intersection with Abercrombie. The pollution was from the rain last week. Now the stormwater from the Fraser’s site has been piped underground along the footpath to discharge into the grate below ground we will no longer see this pollution when it happens.... Read More
