Last month we looked at how composting food waste reduces the amount of methane in the atmosphere. An astute reader corrected my quote that methane is 25% more potent than…
Food waste in your bin goes to landfill where it decomposes producing methane, a greenhouse gas which is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. In 2016-2017 3.2 million tonnes…
Often our celebrations at Christmas have a negative effect on the planet because of the amount of waste we create. There are many things we can do to make Christmas…
This is the great title of an article in our local council’s seasonal newsletter! www.onkaparinganow.com The article is about our involvement in Sustainable House Day and describes the some of…
How life has changed in just over a month! One of the advantages of having to stay home most of the time is reconnecting with the pleasures of slow and…
A few years ago I read a great book called One Magic Square by local Adelaide Hills author Lolo Houbein. She wrote about growing vegetables on one square metre of…
The IPCC states that we are now in a climate crisis. A report from the UN states that bio-diversity is decreasing at unprecedented rates. Our re-elected leaders in Canberra don’t…
Garden farming describes food-growing in domestic gardens for the people living in the household. On our small block we do this by a mix of food forest farming, where layers…
When we bought it our block of land it consisted of 2 olive trees and a paddock of couch, kikuyu, soursobs and assorted annual grasses. We moved one olive tree…
Welcome to the first Footprint Garden Farm blog. We aim to write a blog every month about the latest happenings at the FGF. Our big news for last month is…