The Australian landscape has been strategically burnt by Aboriginal people for centuries. With the aim to reduce fuel load, regenerate native foods and vegetation, and put goodness back into the soils. Today, our attitude towards the environmental benefits of fire and the burning of our bushlands and private properties are quite often based on fear.…
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Some time has passed since my last blog, I’m not going to check the date, I just know that it’s been too long! I really would much rather have kept things up to date with the comings and goings at Living Greener, however, the business has been going so well and with young children, a…
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As you may know, I LOVE collecting and working with rustic timbers. I have previously mentioned the mountain of recycled hardwood timber that we inherited from a local demolition and we have now put it to another fantastic use which will also decrease some of the weeding maintenance that we have to do around the…
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Living Greener assists a local award-winning South Gippsland winery, Harman Wines with their property maintenance. The Harman Wines property is 10 acres with vines, a cellar door, veggie gardens, a fruit and olive orchard, a large paddock with sheep, and a bit of space to mow and brushcut. With the Harman Wines business growing in…
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Yesterday would have to have been the proudest moment I have experienced in my veggie garden……….I harvested 21 of the most deliciously round, big and perfectly gorgeous garlic I have ever seen! I dug them out with the biggest grin on my face, each bigger and better than the next, it was like Christmas morning…
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The idea for the 3 acres of land that we have dedicated to livestock is to create a rotational grazing system. When we originally purchased the property it was an open paddock with an existing narrow and sparse shelterbelt through the middle. We fenced 2 large paddocks with the idea of running sheep, cows, and…
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I’m sure everyone has experienced a loose, falling off or broken toilet roll holder. When ours gave way recently in the kids toilet, I suggested to our 4 & 7-year-old about making our own. I put a challenge to them and took them to the local recycled building materials place to see what goodies we…
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When our neighbour rang us up one day and said ‘I’m helping demolish a shed, do you want the hardwood frame for firewood’ ….. he knew all too well that we were going to say ‘ABSOLUTELY!’. Within an hour there was a HUGE load of hardwood dumped in front of our shed. Little did we…
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When most people think about artichokes they associate it with the marinated artichoke hearts that we buy at the supermarket or local deli. However, when I think of artichokes, I think about sitting at my Nonna and Nonnos table cloth covered dinner table, placemats at every seat with a bread crumb stuffed treasure in front…
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When we first built our home on 5 acres in Inverloch, we were adamant about being as sustainable as we could and setting our farm up to be low maintenance and functional by using the basic elements of permaculture. The chicken-vegetable dynamic is the perfect example! The chooks provide poo power (life-giving nitrogen) to our…
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