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Our gardens can bring us closer to understanding and working in sympathy (or not) with the ecosystems that underpin life on this planet. By assisting nature to create a beautiful, efficient and productive garden in your home you are learning the rythems of nature and our humble role in it. So how can we let our green thumbs play and align our gardens to the sustainable path?

Grow your own Food smlGrow your own Food

Want to taste really fresh food that's good for you and the planet? Get into gardening in your own backyard.



Water-Efficient Gardening smlWater-Efficient Gardening

With less rainfall and hotter weather predicted in the coming decades, we need to go with the limited flow and create a wonderful water-wise garden.


Grow an Indigenous Garden smlGrow an Indigenous Garden

Growing indigenous plants in your backyard helps extend remnant patches of native fauna, attracts wildlife to your garden and conserves biodiversity. So get your hands dirty and enjoy the rewards.


Use plants to remove toxins smlUse Plants to Remove Toxins (from your home)

Is your living space giving you 'sick building syndrome'? Treat it with a collection of plants that absorb toxic chemicals. They're good for your soul - and good for your health.



Mulch your patch smlMulch your Patch

Mulching your garden beds improves soil health while preventing water loss through evaporation.


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Environmental

Our gardens are perhaps the easiest part of our lives to make sustainable and two paths appear to describe the environmental choices in the garden. On one hand we can have the productive garden with veggies and fruit trees. This is an efficient and sustainable way to grow food (no transport) and any extra water used is simply offset by the water saved by not buying food produced elsewhere.

On the other hand there is the non-productive garden which is sustainable through it’s alignment to its conditions. This garden requires no external resources (i.e. water, fertiliser) to survive and thrive. If you can achieve both these paths in one garden you doing very well.

Wellbeing

Gardening is good for your heart and soul. It puts you in direct contact with the natural systems that give us life through food. The food grown in you garden is fresh, free of toxins and somehow more satisfying for your having grown it.

The process of gardening improves your mental health by helping you relax and unwind. It improves your cardiovascular fitness as well as your flexibility, endurance and strength.

 

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