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Composting 101: A simple guide to composting at home
Composting is a cheap and clever way to use your organic food waste for something good, while doing your bit for the environment. And even though it is known as ‘black gold’ for to gardeners, you don’t need to be a gardening pro to start composting your waste. Compost can be given away to neighbours/friends, or even sold, if you can’t use it yourself or you have too much. Most importantly, you would be reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that would be produced by your waste if it went into landfill, and lessening the financial loss of your food wastage.…
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What happens in an insect hotel?
The word “insect” conjures up a whole range of images. Kids will talk about lady bugs, butterflies, and bees, cute creatures that dot the landscape with beauty, just like flowers in the garden, fuzzy animals and sunshine. By the time they are adults they might think of flies, stinging wasps, termites, mosquitoes and those annoying critters that might interrupt a perfectly good day or beat us to our home grown vegetables before we get a chance to pick them. But love them or hate them, they are here for a very good reason, and there are billions of them behind the…
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B&Bs for bees in the Sydney Morning Herald
It seems everyone is buzzing about our new B&B Highway initiative… including the Sydney Morning Herald who this week shared a story titled “B&Bs for bees: the bid to save Sydney's pollinators”. Thank you for sharing our story and we can’t wait to bring the project to life! …… An airborne highway with rest stops for birds, bees and other insects will be created across Sydney in a bid to help food security and biodiversity. Animals that help with pollination are declining across the city as their habitats are lost to urbanisation, Judith Friedlander, a postgraduate researcher in sustainability at…