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  • How to reduce ecological footprint
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  • I am new to Sydney and am looking for a weekly or twice weekly organic farmers random delivery box?
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  • vertical gardening
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    How do i deter rats from eating the Roma Tomatoes on my front verge garden in Bondi?
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  • Hello, is it safe to use old railway sleepers to build a raised garden bed?
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  • Why is it important to reduce ecological footprints?
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  • Can you recommend a good book on permaculture for the residential novice?
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    Manuka Honey Tree - Leptospermum scoparium
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    Anyone know where to get (live!) chickens In Sydney? Ethical and local would be great, but will ...
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    Do i need to worry about foxes (or other digging baddies) in Bondi for my chicken coup design?
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  • April 17, 2013

    Urban chookery crowds out Barrett House

    More loveable than a dog, less aloof than a cat and incredible useful too... they're the urban animal supreme, the productive pet, the fascinating companion... and they eat our kitchen scraps.

    They're also the most numerous bird in the world and you find them both on ...

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  • April 17, 2013

    Permaculture... learning about the design system

    "Permaculture", said Bill Mollison on one of his early videos, " ...is about a lot more than gardening". And, if anything, that's the idea that people attending the Randwick Council sustainability team's Introduction to Permaculture two-meeting workshop went away with last month.

    Workshop educators, Steve Batley (landscape ...

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  • March 26, 2013

    Food — the biggest contributor to environmental damage

    The report summed it up well:

    • The biggest impacts that people have on the environment is through the food we eat — food choices could make a much bigger difference to household sustainability than direct water and energy use.

    Our food choices account for:

    • 50% of an Australian urban ...
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  • Jan. 31, 2013

    Cherries and a chat

    CHERRIES are a treat of the seasonal kind, and as this is cherry season a couple boxes of the round red delicacies arrived with our Sydney Food Connect weekly box of organic food, most of which comes from the Sydney region — what is known as Sydney's food ...

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  • Sept. 19, 2012

    Genetically Modified foods .. in a nutshell

    The trend towards re-establishing backyard edible gardens and community gardens can be seen as a reaction to the global demise of the small farmer and the growth of giant food production centres that operate more like factories than farms. True, these farms produce higher volumes of food. But ...

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  • Sept. 7, 2012

    At Barrett House, food is climbing up the walls

    Steve summed it up nicely: "We've got food growing in the garden, we've got food growing along the fence, we've got food growing on the footpath… and now we've got food growing on the wall".

    What he was referring to was the vertical gardens ...

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  • Aug. 24, 2012

    Weekly vegie box collection from Barrett House

    Rhubarb Foods Co-op will start a weekly organic vegie box from Barrett House from Thursday 6 September.

    It’s a great way to get the best priced organic produce into the community. The vegies arrive in bulk, together we divide up all the fruit and veg into baskets ...

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  • July 2, 2012

    The Permaculture Orchard

    AT THE Permaculture Interpretive Garden—the PIG—we’re progressively establishing a forest garden that will eventually yield fruits, nuts, selected vegetables and herbs. It’s a long term project but we’ve made a good start.

    It will be the outcome of a process that started with ...

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  • June 4, 2012

    International Permaculture Day in the East—2012

    IT was quite a little social scene, sitting in the tiny garden at Barrett House, soaking up the late Autumn sun, talking and biting into the snack food below the Sydney Food Connect banner.

    The event was International Permaculture Day and over in the Eastern Suburbs there was ...

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  • May 21, 2012

    Autumn sunshine hatches inspiration and ideas across the Tasman

    What do you get when you bring together five hundred clever people, smart ideas, innovative projects, lots of food, music and good North Island Autumn weather in a small town at the end of a big lake? 

    You get the buzz of conversation, the revelations and realisations, the ...

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  • June 1, 2013

    Eastern Green Thumbs Network Winter Meeting

    You're invited to the Eastern Green Thumbs Network Winter meeting!

    The Eastern Green Thumbs Network meets each quarter and is open to any resident of the eastern suburbs who has a passion for sustainable gardening - whether at home, or in the community. Come and meet like-minded people ...

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  • June 5, 2013

    #foodwastefuture

    There’s little debate that we’re wasting more food than is good for us or the planet.

    But what can we do about it?

    Join some of our political, academic and social leaders, OzHarvest and the United Nations Environment Programme in a healthy discussion about what’s ...

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  • June 20, 2013

    Love Leftovers- Reduce Waste

    Love food? Hate waste? Learn how to reduce food waste. This FREE workshop looks at the ways food waste is generated and how to minimise it by looking at portion sizes, ways of storing food and how to make the most of your fridge, freezer and pantry. Participants ...

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  • Eastern Green Thumbs Network

    The Eastern Green Thumbs Network meets each quarter and is open to any resident of the eastern suburbs who has a passion for sustainable gardening - whether at home, or in the community.

    The group aims to:

    • Facilitate sharing of knowledge and experiences between eastern suburbs sustainable gardeners through ...
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  • The Food Waste Challenge

    Do you love food, but hate wasting it? Want to know how to make delicious, healthy and sustainable food and reduce how much you waste? Then read on..

    The Eastern Suburbs Food Waste Challenge was held over two sessions in Centennial Parklands, if you missed them don't ...

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