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It’s roll-your-own compost at city farm

10. January 2010

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It’s roll-your-own compost at city farm

At Brisbane's Northey Street City Farm, they make compost the rolling way...

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It’s olives and food gardens at Black Forest primary

8. January 2010

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It’s olives and food gardens at Black Forest primary

Kate Hubmayer explains what it is that makes Adelaide's Black Forest primary school so innovative....

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Creating a population explosion with worms

3. October 2009

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Creating a population explosion with worms

Your plastic worm farms too small to produce the quantities of vermicompost your community garden needs? Why not scale up?

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Small urban livestock offers protein in small spaces

3. October 2009

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Small urban livestock offers protein in small spaces

Small urban livestock offer productivity in a small area and a supply of fresh meat. A city farm demonstrates how rabbits can be kept humanely for food...

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It’s fish and vegies at Perth City Farm

3. October 2009

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It’s fish and vegies at Perth City Farm

THE SMART FOLK over at Perth City Farm have found a way to enjoy some tasty fish with the vegetables they grow. This they do through an aquaponic system...

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A combined, rotational egg and vegetable gardening system

3. October 2009

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A combined, rotational egg and vegetable gardening system

Egg with your dinner, perhaps? That may be possible for community gardeners who can spare a little time for planning with this combined mobile chook pen-garden bed combination...

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Cooking with cobb

12. October 2005

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Cooking with cobb

Hot food straight from the oven in a community garden? But aren't ovens found inside buildings? Not in community gardens that have taken up cooking with cobb.

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