Crafting Eco-Friendly Tree Decorations with Garden Finds: A Permaculture Perspective The holiday season is the perfect time to celebrate the abundance of nature while embracing sustainable practices. By turning to your own garden, you can craft unique and eco-friendly decorations for your tree that reflect the principles of permaculture. Twigs, pinecones and even branches canContinueContinue reading “No Waste Holiday Decorations and Gifts From The Garden”
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Autumn Garden: Seed Collecting & Saving
Seed Collecting in Autumn: Preserving Your Garden Autumn is a magical time when gardens transform into a kaleidoscope of colours, with golden leaves and rich hues of red and orange. But beyond its visual beauty, Autumn offers an excellent opportunity to prepare for next year’s gardening season through the rewarding activity of seed collecting. WhyContinueContinue reading “Autumn Garden: Seed Collecting & Saving”
5 Non Plastic Wrapping Paper Ideas This Holiday Season
As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband Peter then joined me a few monthsContinueContinue reading “5 Non Plastic Wrapping Paper Ideas This Holiday Season”
DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening
DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening This DIY project brings together simplicity, functionality, and eco conscious design to create a vertical garden using a recycled pallet mounted on a fence. Perfect for small spaces, balconies or kitchen gardens with limited ground area, a vertical pallet plant shelf is an excellent wayContinueContinue reading “DIY: Pallet Plant Shelf On The Fence For Vertical Gardening”
DIY: Building Raspberry Support Structures From Pallets
REPURPOSING & REUSING Getting Started When you plant Raspberries you have to also plan for their support system. Raspberries are usually planted in rows with a system of posts and horizontal wires/string to support them. If you don’t have room for this, you can grow them singley in a pot or in a container supportedContinueContinue reading “DIY: Building Raspberry Support Structures From Pallets”
Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn
Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn Repurposing & Reusing Repurposing milk cartons for gardening is an eco friendly and cost effective way to start your sweetcorn plants. These sturdy containers provide an excellent environment for seedlings, giving them enough space to grow long roots in before transplanting them into the garden. Preparing the Milk CartonsStartContinueContinue reading “Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn”
Building A Lawn Edging & Window Style Box With 1 Pallet
REPURPOSING & REUSING What Did We Do? Using 1 pallet we cut up the wood to make several usages, first some lawn edging, I say some because we have a large section to cover and will need maybe 3-4 more pallets to finish this off. Secondly we made a window style box that holds 22ContinueContinue reading “Building A Lawn Edging & Window Style Box With 1 Pallet”
12 Months: 12 Eco Changes. Making An Eco Swap Of Plastic Wrapping Paper
Month 12- December it’s Wrapping Paper Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husbandContinueContinue reading “12 Months: 12 Eco Changes. Making An Eco Swap Of Plastic Wrapping Paper”
12 Months: 12 Eco Changes. Making An Eco Swap Of Fast Fashion
Month 11- November it’s Fast Fashion Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husbandContinueContinue reading “12 Months: 12 Eco Changes. Making An Eco Swap Of Fast Fashion”
