Garden

Preserving is another good way to reduce food waste. It allows you to use up excess fruit and vegetables for consumption later and is especially good for things that are getting overripe. It's...

Use very ripe tomatoes for the best flavour. If you can afford to buy good quality vinegar, such as apple cider vinegar, do so. Otherwise you can just use cheap white vinegar but it will give your...

Here a few recipes for different sauces and dressings that are full of flavour and easy to make. PestoAdd to soups, pasta, salads or sandwiches. For a vegan version just leave out the cheese. 1 cup...

Zucchinis are cheap and plentiful during summer and if you have zucchinis growing in your garden there will inevitabley come a week when your plants produce more than you could possibly eat. This...

For this chutney you cook the first step is beetroot whole with the skin on. This keeps in more of the flavour and nutrients of the beetroot than if you were to peel it first then cook it. Peeling...

It's an interesting and thorny issue. Planet Green had a post about managing a relationship with someone with different environmental standards than you, but what if it's your housemate...

I'm sure we're not the only renters with quite a lot of concrete and ugly brown fencing. I was excited to find this tutorial on Instructables.  Good for smaller plants that don't...

Our website, which includes several hundred articles drawing thousands of people a month to read them, is one of our most popular activities. Researching, writing, editing and hosting these...

Joining one of very few similar projects in Australia, Moreland council embarked on a pilot program to set up seven community composting hubs in the inner north Melbourne municipality. With an...

Some time ago now I attended a meeting of the Food Gardeners Alliance, which was very interesting. One of the attendees then delivered a talk on keeping chickens in your back yard, something that...