Entries from June 2010 ↓

The Australia and New Zealand Biochar Researchers Network delivered a workshop on Monday 28 June – an opportunity to learn basic facts about biochar and its potential applications and benefits.

Biochar can be produced from a wide range of organic materials – wood waste, paper waste, municipal green waste, animal manures and crop residues, to name a few.

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This Sunday, June 27, there will be two in-house demonstrations on home insulation.

Come and see how Clear Comfort window insulation can be cheaply installed on your windows – at 1pm, 136 Waterworks Rd.

Come and see how to retrofit insulation into a weatherboard wall cavity – at 3pm, 195 Waterworks Rd.

Autumn leaves are abundant at the moment. Mixed with manure, watered and left for a few months they turn into great compost. Collecting them up is quickly done with a sack (or a few), a leaf rake and a pair of gloves.

1. Rake up a good pile of leaves and position your rake and sack next to it. Try to smile while you are working (photo on left)
2. Put the rake flat, just inside the mouth of the sack
3. Using your preferred foot, pin the rake handle to the ground
4. Using your non-preferred hand, hold the top of the sack’s mouth open
5. A taut, tiangular opening to the sack will be evident (middle photo)
6. Use your preferred hand, glove on, to sweep the leaves into the sack (photo on right).