Urban permaculture, local food + sustainable living blog.
Where’s the best place to start with sustainable home renovations?
Here's the #1 question to ask yourself when considering sustainable home renovations, which will help you decide where to start and what you should change.
Urban permaculture gardening column for ABC Everyday
I write a regular column for ABC Everyday on permaculture and organic gardening in small urban spaces. Here you can browse my story archive.
Cheap chicken feed ideas: how to feed your flock without breaking the bank
Here's how to save money on chicken feed while enriching your hen's lives, training your flock to be friendlier & producing better-tasting eggs.
#DiversifyYourFeed — 40 Instagram accounts on climate justice, permaculture & local food
Diversify your feed and step outside of your own echo chamber — here's a list of 40 excellent Instagram accounts to start following.
How to make your own vegetable stock powder
Making your own veggie stock powder is heaps easy — and a great way to sneak extra greens into all sorts of meals, all year round.
How to grow great veggies: top tips from two South Australian market gardeners
Two ace local farmers share must-know advice on how to grow excellent organic food in Adelaide's tough conditions.
Best organic fertilisers to supercharge your veggie patch
Feeding the soil is your number one job as a veggie gardener. Here's the best organic fertilisers to use for growing nutritious and healthy produce.
Make your own healing calendula + lavender salve (with no special equipment)
This calendula salve — handmade using homegrown flowers — has fast become the only face and body cream I use. Happily, it's easy to make...
Pick and cure your own foraged olives, the traditional Sicilian way
Olives grow abundantly in many cities, yet often go unpicked. Here's how to forage a free harvest, then cure your own delicious jars of Italian-style olives.
How to make an urban roadside honesty stall for veggies, flowers, seedlings + more
Honesty stalls are common in country areas — little stores filled with homegrown produce sold to passers-by, who pay into unattended cashboxes. Not so in cities. Here's how I created my urban stall.
Foraged sour plum shrub syrup + an upside-down plum cake
Sour plums ripen on street trees across Adelaide in early summer. Many folk dismiss these trees as purely ornamental, but the fruit can be yum! Here's two ways to use one batch of foraged sour plums.
Top 50 South Aussie permaculture, gardening & farming Instagram accounts to follow
Here's a list of my favourite South Aussie Instagram accounts, so you can share in their awesomeness, too. These are folk I love to follow for constant inspiration, tips, knowledge exchange and ideas ♥
Using herbs as gentle medicine: a walk through Patrizia’s herb garden
Join me on a walk through the garden of South Australian medical herbalist, Patrizia Bronzi, and learn simple uses for everyday herbs.
How to make kombucha at home: delicious, bubbly and great for your gut
Kombucha is insanely easy to make at home. And the process of keeping a culture alive + turning it into a healthy bevvy with just tea, time and a little sugar is something close to magic.
Homemade limoncello, the traditional Italian way
When life gives you lemons, moonshine and an Italian imported direct from the motherland, you have to make limoncello.
