If you enjoy gardening, you can design your own container garden as a way to add some color and pizzazz to your home for the holidays. Tips on Making a Holiday Container Garden Unless you…
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How to Extend Your Gardening Season
As the weather gets colder, green thumbs may find themselves with limited options when it comes to continuing their hobby. While it may be challenging to keep your plants alive past the traditional growing season,…

How A Group Of Refugee Women Started Their Own Organic Rooftop Garden
The Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp in Lebanon just got its own organic rooftop garden, thanks to the work of women living on the camp site. The garden will allow these women to produce vegetables and…

Kitchen Garden: ‘salad bar’ makes for a happy clucker
Oh to be a chicken at Finch Farmlet in Chisholm. They have a ‘salad bar’ raised from Clucker Tucker seed mix from Bellchambers in Fyshwick with a dedicated patch of lucerne and clover. The coop…

Flex your green thumb: Tips on growing cannabis at home
Budding green thumbs now have the opportunity to legally grow their own cannabis at home. Canadians can grow up to four cannabis plants for personal use per residence under the new laws. The plants must come…

This Beaufort store is closing after 30 years of business. Here’s when it will close
A Beaufort business is closing after more than 30 years serving customers. Lifestyle Furniture by Mama’s of Beaufort — located at 1800 Boundary Street — is closing sometime in the next month and a…

Gardening: Go native with a habitat garden and welcome blue tongues and birds
The Royal National Park was looking particularly picturesque, not to say gardened, as I drove to Bundeena to meet garden designer Kath Gadd, of Mallee Designs. Flowers of pink and yellow, white and purple sprinkled…

How to build a salad garden in your own backyard
Choosing your plants When choosing your plants, think about what you like in a salad. Some suggestions include, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, capsicum, spring onions, radish and maybe a few herbs like mint. Ornate lettuce can…

Yorktown neighbors’ lawsuit: Commercial business in their residential area is a nuisance
Several neighbors are suing the owners of a Gomer Street property, claiming that its “ever expanding commercial operations” create a nuisance of dust, airborne debris, noise and flooding in an otherwise residential area. Residents of eight homes on Gomer Street,…

Aleph Objects Launches Open Source Hardware Material PETg by IC3D
For anyone looking for an open source filament for mechanical and robotics applications, you may want to try the new offering from Aleph Objects, the company founded in 2011 and “built on the philosophy of freedom”. The company…