Shoots, Roots & Fruits Gardening

25/06/2017

Caterpillar control. Timed light over a pan of water. Catches moths, feeds ducks and chickens, saves our plants. Function stacking.

24/06/2017

Spot the difference!
1 month old wheat plants, all grown in the same patch of soil. The 3 on the left have received 85kg/ha of NPK.
The 4 on the right received 60kg/hectare organic pelletised wormcastings.
The decision is up to you on what the better farming practice is.
Coolibah Herbs Worm Farm Waste Systems BioGro NZ Organic NZ Magazine Landsave Organics ABC Landline AgChatOZ Landcare Australia Alkira Organics Living Earth Carbon Ag Solutions Red Tree Environmental Solutions Ltd. Peats Soil & Garden Supplies

20/06/2017

Their ultimate self-sufficient garden has a higher purpose - our very survival.

29/12/2016

This is just lovely.

Support Happen Films: http://patreon.com/happenfilms In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton's a...

22/12/2016

Nature is simply amazing.

Yep!
Via AsapSCIENCE

20/12/2016

Yeh!

Gutter gardens are great for strawberries and greens!

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07/12/2016

Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our backs on industrial farming holds the key to tackling climate change

04/12/2016

Tomorrow is World Soil Day!

The health of our soil is critical to our lives and our earth.

Soil contains all of the vitamins and minerals we need to survive, as well as the bacteria and microscopic cultures that help grow our food, and plants for our air.
It also locks in carbon - which is critical to the balance of our atmosphere, and life on earth.

03/12/2016

Our StoryA country that extols pavlova (actually a New Zealand invention) and Vegemite as their contributions to international cuisine has no authentic cooking style of its own. But for 100,000 years we did. The Australian obsession with denying any Aboriginal achievement in order to avoid conversat

15/11/2016

It is a pity people don't respect our public spaces.
The amount of rubbish we encounter along the beach, on a warm evening, is terrible.
Take a bag with you and pick it up. Maybe other people will cotton on.

Lot of people at the beach last night on a hot night and a . This mess however is nothing to celebrate!!!!! UNLESS YOU PUT IT IN A BIN FOLKS IT IS STILL LITTERING! Just metres from the beach a slight breeze will blow it into the ocean. It's your rubbish, if the bin is full TAKE IT HOME. Don't leave it to the council to gather up what you can't bother to take home. Their job is to empty the bin. This is where plastic pollution on our oceans starts and this is where it needs to stop.

14/11/2016

I love sneak peaks of nature doing it's own thing. This is just beautiful.

David at Vacy - aka Captain Cow - has sent us this amazing photo of an Eastern Rosella with 6 fledgling chicks, nesting in a hollow fence post on his farm!

Garth Russell asked bird enthusiast and Hunter Bird Observers Club member Bruce Watts about the nesting habits of Eastern Rosellas. Bruce said that Rosellas have had to adjust to the loss of their usual nesting places, but are very good nesters, sometimes having 8 chicks in one nest. He also said that while Eastern Rosellas like these don't mind having their photo taken, there are a number of species that are very suspicious of humans. He advises that, if in doubt, to stay clear of the nest.

Listen to Garth's full chat with Bruce on our Soundcloud page: http://bit.ly/2gbqijd

Don't forget that you can send us your photos from around the Hunter Region - text them to 0487 99 1233, Tweet us at , or upload them to this page!

08/11/2016

My Grandmother used to do this.
On one of our trips to South Africa, my mother rolled her ankle and my grandmother bound it with a thick layer of comfrey from her garden.

My fascination with healing plants began with my Grandmother's garden and her herbal cures for ailments.

I rolled my ankle today - *ouch*. So I made a comfrey poultice (mashed comfrey leaf) and used a bandage to keep it in place. Comfrey is also known as 'knit bone' and was/is commonly applied to broken bones, bruises and sprains. A super useful plant to add to your garden!