Our Community Vegetable Garden Plot

November 20, 2009 by Vesna  
Filed under Sustainable Living, Urban Garden

community garden soil preparation

Finally, after more than one year since applying for a plot in the local community garden, we’ve got one!  Coincidentally, we received the news on the day Sustainable Echo was celebrating its first birthday.  It felt like a real anniversary…

Spring in Our Urban Garden

September 15, 2009 by Vesna  
Filed under Urban Garden

The days are getting longer, the soil is warming up: SPRING has arrived (in the southern hemisphere, that is)!

For now all our vegetables are growing in the container garden quite happily, as you can see below.  The reason is that our small…

World Environment Day June 5th 2009

June 5, 2009 by Vesna  
Filed under Eco Kids, Sustainable Living, Urban Garden

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World Environment Day 2009

Today is World Environment Day. This year’s theme for the WED is ‘Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change’.

To celebrate the WED our kids planted the seeds of a beautiful native weeping red bottlebrush tree.  The seeds pack is…

Pictures from my urban garden

February 9, 2009 by Vesna  
Filed under Urban Garden

Latest pictures from my urban garden

Sunflower

Sunflower

Urban garden

November 13, 2008 by Vesna  
Filed under Urban Garden

urban garden Urban gardenLiving in the city doesn’t mean you can’t grow some of your own food. Even if you have no garden at all, think balconies, windowsills, apartment rooftops or community gardens. They are all potential urban gardens.

The effort and initial small investment of…