by Laila Helena | Grow Naturopath | Feb 25, 2021 | Building Soil
Is your worm farm smelling bad or attracting the wrong sort of bugs? Here are seven frequently asked questions. Can I overfeed my worms? Definitely! Overfeeding worms can result in protein poisoning (aka sour crop). As protein-rich foods break down, they release...
by Lucy Legan | May 5, 2020 | Conscious Green Mama, Homeschooling, Kids Gardening, Little Green House, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
We were lucky enough to find an old rolling rubbish bin and decided to repurpose it into another worm farm. Trash bins are a great way to collect worm juice and castings in a vertical space. The bins can readily be found in tip and junk shops. When choosing a bin make...
by Laila Helena | Grow Naturopath | Sep 15, 2019 | Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
So you’ve fallen in love with fermenting your food and making your own kombucha…but you suddenly realise that you have huge amount of kombucha, kefir and other yummy goods that are growing out of control and your family isn’t as big as your microbe...
by Lucy Legan | Jul 29, 2019 | Conscious Green Mama, Ethics, Permaculture, Sustainable Living, Waste Free Living
Or could you be the problem? A little harsh? Maybe so, yet we have serious environmental problems piling up and the solutions are embarrassingly simple, they just take a little effort. We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
by Laila Helena | Grow Naturopath | Nov 10, 2015 | Kids Gardening, Permaculture, Sustainable Living
There are some 10 quintillion insects buzzing around the planet at this moment. They are the largest biomass of the terrestrial animal on the planet and play an extremely important role in keeping us alive. Insects spend their time pollinating the flowering plants and...
