Despite the overcast weather and the odd shower of rain, the breeze is warm and hints of a coming Spring. Over the weekend I caught the scent on the breeze that is unmistakably the perfume of an approaching and not so far off Spring. The plum trees in our garden are blossoming. Our … Continue reading Winds Of Change
I am constantly looking at how time is spent. Particularly mine, occasionally the families. A fair chunk of my time is taken up with preparing meals and washing dishes. This frequently has me checking in on what others are doing in similar circumstances to see if there are short cuts I can take. The biggest … Continue reading Food Packaging, Gran & The Taste Monster
We are planning to use rainwater throughout the house wherever possible, so utilising our greywater (wastewater from showers, bath, laundry and hand basins) means that the water captured from our rooftop goes further. Generally, the permaculture approach to water is to capture it, slow it and disperse it through the designed system (in this case … Continue reading Tillellan – Greywater System
In many respects, life at our current Petit Paradis started with Compost Worms. We started our garden by initially burying food scraps directly into the sand and introducing some compost worms which we brought over from our previous residence. The worms quickly digested this organic matter into soil humus. This in turn introduced more of … Continue reading Petit Paradis – Compost Worms
Ecological Debt Day or Earth Overshoot Day arrived. Yesterday. Each year someone that is better with numbers than I works out a calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year reaches a deficit. We cannot regenerate renewable resources quick enough within the same year. The actual science and calculations behind the day are … Continue reading Ecological Debt Day 2017
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