Living 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 Garden
How to Grow Garlic in the City
Late autumn, early winter is the perfect time to plant garlic in Melbourne (Australia). These photos are from our container garden last year's crop. I also planted some garlic in our community veggie ...
How to Make Hay for Pets
Seeing the photo above, some might ask: what on earth are we doing here? Making hay. But why? In an inner city backyard? There are no big meadows or cows close by! Well, we are using it as the ...
Community Garden Plot
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 ...
Simple Ideas for Reusing Coconut Shells
9 - 15 November 2009 is National Recycling Week (Australia) founded by Planet Ark in 1996. This post is Sustainable Echo's contribution to NRW. It's about finding another use for something otherwise ...
Eco-Fun for Kids: Grow Your Veggies and Eat it Too!
Engaging kids in the organic gardening from an early age has many benefits: it teaches them about nature, sustainability, environment, patience, to appreciate food, etc. When they are older, ...
Spring in Our Container 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 ...
Pictures from my urban garden
Latest pictures from my urban garden... Sunflower ...
Garden Slugs: Organic and Natural Slug Control
Slugs and snails are annoying pests, more so as they are "invisible". They are rarely seen at work because they come out at night and hide in dark and moist places, mostly underground. ...