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Old Homestead Community Garden Compost Update

Submitted by Heidi on 11 May 2010 - 9:51pm | updated 11 May 2010 | Local news

Saturday's turnout at the garden was the best in a long while, and we achieved heaps. (2 in fact.) Nine adults plus children and a mulcher meant we now have a new compost pile, and the best of the compost from the "old" heap has been turned, covered, and is just maturing to perfection over the next few weeks. » Read more

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New Community Composting Facility

Submitted by Pippa Coom on 26 April 2010 - 3:37pm | updated 26 Apr 2010 | Local news

The Wilton Street Community Garden (part of Grey Lynn 2030)  recently completed construction of our new Community Composting Facility. Located in the garden at the top of Wilton Street, the facility consists of three large wooden bins designed to turn local organic waste into usable garden compost. » Read more

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A Green Light For Guerilla Gardeners

Submitted by hjones on 6 November 2009 - 1:06pm | updated 06 Nov 2009 | Story

By Sue Jackson

2 Nov 2009

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Guerrilla gardens might not have 'owners' but they sure have defenders, as Yarra Council discovered when it tried to wipe the gardens out. Sue Jackson tells the story » Read more

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Urban Food Production at the Expo

Submitted by freefood.org.nz on 11 September 2009 - 4:49pm | Blog entry

It was the Transition Towns presentation on Urban Food Production today at the cathedral. There were three speakers on the subject, all taking different approaches to the problem of what to do about food in the city. » Read more

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Food for Everyone

Submitted by James Samuel on 6 July 2009 - 7:17am | updated 06 Jul 2009 | Blog entry

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In the last 12 months attention to localising food has increased so dramatically that it gives me faith we can create new systems to provide for the well being of many people while regenerating the earth after the last 200 years of exponential growth in consumption and extraction. To find out more, follow any of the tags at the top of this post, or click on the graphic above. » Read more

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The start of spring

Submitted by Rimu on 1 September 2008 - 2:47pm | updated 01 Sep 2008 | Blog entry

Spent sunday afternoon digging around in the local community garden. Plenty of weeds to pull and compost to prepare!

It was a beautiful day (for a change), and I'm really looking forward to a good 8 months or so of growing things coming up :-)

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