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How To Design Your Own Australian Inspired Edible Garden
Before colonisation, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia utilised native plants for food, medicine, and tools. Food was, and continues to be,
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Eco-Friendly Gardening 101: Expanding Your Garden the Right Way
Creating a sustainable and eco-friendly garden is a rewarding endeavour. As a conscientious homeowner, you might be contemplating how to take your modest garden to
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16 Strategies for Sustainable Lawn Care
Sustainable lawn care is the practice of maintaining your lawn in a way that is environmentally friendly and resource-efficient, focusing on soil health, water conservation,
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Grow Your Own Food
Would you like to eat fresh food that’s good for you and the planet? Get into gardening in your own backyard. Much of the food
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Grow an Indigenous Garden
Growing indigenous and endemic plants in your backyard helps extend remnant patches of native fauna, attracts native wildlife to your garden and conserves biodiversity. So
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Nurture and Conserve Biodiversity
Create an urban refuge for local biodiversity and enjoy the visual elements, the sounds and serenity of nature in your own backyard. Nature is something
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Mulch your patch
Mulching your garden beds improves soil health and prevents water loss through evaporation. Mulching is the number one rule for water conservation in your garden.
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Water Efficient Gardening
With less rainfall and hotter weather predicted in the coming decades, we need to go with the limited flow and create water-wise gardens. Clean water
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Keep Chickens for Eggs
Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds your
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Use plants to remove toxins
Is your living space giving you ‘sick building syndrome’? Treat it with a collection of plants that absorb toxic chemicals. They’re good for your soul
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Our gardens can bring us closer to understanding ecosystems that underpin life on this planet and how to live in harmony with the earth. By creating a beautiful, efficient and productive garden in your home, you can learn the rhythms of nature and our humble role in it. So how can we let our green thumbs align our gardens to the sustainable path?