Sustainable House Day Darwin

Sustainable house day is in Darwin and its on Sunday 8th September. This day show cases new designs and retro fit suburban houses that have features making them more sustainable through power and water use and in some cases, like our place creating sustainablility through community. There are 5 houses around the Darwin and Northern…

What’s Growing in the garden of number 99 (now)

Well considering it is peak season right now for growing and I was hoping our garden would show case what you could do on a small block, the garden could be doing better. The important things that maybe out of whack are the right amount of water and good soil composition with heaps of nutrients….

Cool Beets for a hot place!

I am so happy to get into these beets! Trying to eat just locally grown food I do not often eat beetroots as they are pretty hard to grow in the hot climate, but luckily thanks to Ronnie,  a grower in Howard Springs who uses no sprays and manure fertilisers I got hold of these…