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Sprouting Spouting: A Gutter Garden

Gutter Gardens are a small-space hero of edible gardening When space is limited but your green thumb is itching, a ... Read More
The Joy of Crop Swaps

The Joy of Crop Swaps

Do you think you are the only one out there with a humble veggie plot in your backyard? Think again ... Read More
Spaghetti Squash Seeds

Grow Your Own

With the ramifications of Covid-19 in New Zealand, from stockpiling to food rationing, we should now, more than ever, embrace ... Read More
Hungry Bin Worm Farm - Years Later #part2

Hungry Bin Worm Farm – Years Later #part2

My Hungry Bin worm farm is trucking along just nicely after many years. I adore my Hungry Bin worm farm, ... Read More
Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin

Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin

Around the size of a soccer field in Berlin’s eastern Moritzplatz district, Prinzessinnengarten is more than just an urban vegetable ... Read More
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Garden allotments in Munich: weekend houses with grit

I’m back from a wonderful fact finding tour of Germany where I continued my quest to rediscover how urban living ... Read More
Moss Lane School Allotment

The Burys Allotments, Godalming

If you haven’t heard of ‘allotments’ before, let me introduce them to you. UK Allotments 101 Allotments in the UK ... Read More
Food Runners & Urban Farming in San Francisco

Food Runners & Urban Farming in San Francisco

I am intrigued how cities apply themselves to meet their urbanomic needs. I recently met up with Phil from Food ... Read More
Community Fruit Harvesting

Community Fruit Harvesting

Once upon a time, every backyard in every quarter acre block in New Zealand, would be home to fruit trees ... Read More
Kaibosh Wellington

Kaibosh: the Food Rescuers

It is appalling to learn how much food New Zealand wastes. Thank goodness for kind hearts; the food rescuers. With ... Read More
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Pick Me! My Community Vertical Vege Garden

Pick me! Pick me! I have been waiting weeks to introduce my vertical community fence garden to the world. Well, ... Read More
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Food for Thought: Auckland Berm Gardens under Fire

“Roadside gardens are to be outlawed in Auckland, with residents forced to apply for a $150 licence if they want ... Read More
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Lemon Tree Defiance: Benny on the Berm

The Community Gardening virus takes hold. After a chance meeting with Incredible Edible Geraldine founder, Sam Lees, I was so ... Read More
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Community Gardening: Incredible Edible Geraldine

I love the concept of sustainable backyards. I’m sold on the idea that every house, regardless of the size of ... Read More
Hungry Bin Worm Farm - The Arrival #part 1

Hungry Bin Worm Farm – The Arrival #part 1

It doesn’t take much to get me beaming. The Hungry Bin Worm Farm didn’t need wrapping to be the perfect ... Read More
kai auckland

Kai Auckland

Kai Auckland has been established just a few months but already it has the makings of something very positive. It’s ... Read More
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