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Planning Your Urban Garden

November 13, 2018 by Vesna 1 Comment

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 ...

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How to Grow Garlic in the City

May 24, 2011 by Vesna Leave a Comment

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 ...

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Community Garden Plot

November 20, 2009 by Vesna Leave a Comment

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 ...

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Spring in Our Container Garden

September 15, 2009 by Vesna 1 Comment

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 ...

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Pictures from my urban garden

February 9, 2009 by Vesna 1 Comment

Latest pictures from my urban garden... Sunflower ...

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  • First ever cherries from our tree 🍒
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  • If you have a  bicycle that’s broken or gathering dust, please donate to charity rather than throw it out with hard rubbish collection. Opp-shops will take those in good order. Broken ones too can be donated. Just check charities in your area. Bikes are repaired and sent to people in need to whom a 🚲 will mean the world. I emailed Bicycles For Humanity, a volunteer run charity. They were happy to collect the bike. Easy. Thank you Phil from @b4h.melbourne !
  • I caught the soap making bug a few years ago thanks to a good friend and never looked back. When I’m not baking or teaching baking, I love to mix my own oil combinations and experiment. All ingredients, except the lye I guess, are natural. Pure essential oils are added and sometimes other ingredients like cocoa, ground teas, dried greens, oats, cinnamon, calendula etc. All soaps are made using cold process hence they need to cure for at least 6+ weeks. Now is a good time to make soaps for Christmas presents 🎁. On the picture above I have coconut laundry soap, shampoo soap, some marbled versions and goat’s milk soap. .
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  • Made virtually kilos of comfrey cream using homegrown comfrey root 😅. Little jars, when jazzed up with labels and ribbons, will make great presents 🎁. Comfrey, also called Knitbone, is easy to grow. Homemade cream can be made from roots in late autumn/winter or from leaves in spring and summer before flowers appear. 
The cream is used in healing broken bones, sprains, bruises, etc.
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  • What’s cooking? A huge  batch of comfrey root cream. Faze one: 4-hour simmer in oil over hot water. .
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  • This old marble cheese slicer is great for cutting soap 👍🏼. #homemadesoap
  • Stinging nettle & beetroot stalks tart. Actually I should call it “whatever greens I could find in the garden” tart, as in there I have some Tuscan kale, silverbeet, parsley, beetroot leaves and wild rocket, too. Love the very distinctive taste of nettles 😋.

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