Food prices and weather extremes
The Sydney Morning Herald’s columnist, Paul Sheehan, has today written a column about food prices and weather extremes; see it here - http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/next-shock-will-be-high-food-prices-20110116-19sen.html Speaking of gardening and food, there’s lots of rain forecast for the next few weeks so it’s a good time to be planting, mulching and composting, Michael Read More
Trees do furnish a street
A beautiful tree centred street, Surry Hills Mulberry tree and fruit, Surry Hills Here are two beautiful streets I walked down today in Surry Hills. One has trees down the middle. One is blessed with a banquet of mulberries some of which I picked and ate . . . mmmm. Read More
Can we eat food grown on roadside gardens
When folks ask me to design a road garden a common question is, can we safely eat the food we grow there? It’s a lot safer than stuff from overseas that’s been treated to kill foreign pests and insectides – none of those treatments have been applied to your own food you grow – you grow it and know what’s been done to it. But what about car fumes, air pollution and the soil in the road gardens? Here’s some advice from one of Australia’s leading soil scientists: “During... Read More
