Did you know that about half of what we put in our red-lid garbage bin could in fact be composted this includes all our fruit and veggies scraps as well as grass clippings and other types of garden waste? Also, most spoilt or food-contaminated cardboard and paper is easily composted too. So if we removed all that from our garbage bin, and composted it at home, we could be halving what we send to landfill! What a great result that would be.
Council would like to invite the community of the Shoalhaven to take part in a comprehensive new approach to household waste management simply by composting.
Resources, including a compost bin and a kitchen bench-top tidy bin, will be given to those households to get them started and maintain their composting efforts. It is important that the households that sign up to participate in the composting program are committed to reducing their households waste to landfill.
HAMMALOT is the museum of hammers, mallets and mauls quietly expanding in one of the streets of Greenwell Point, where local resident Brian Picketts 5000 strong collection crowds every nook, cranny and rafter in a double garage.
He has been fitting out with his collection for the past nine years.
When I asked, Why hammers?, he immediately volleyed back," Well, why not? When they lose their temper they don’t fly off the handle.
Backyard Aquaponics System
Aquaponics is the creation of a complete cycle of symbiotic relationships where the fish help plants and the plants help fish.
Aquaponics is a truly remarkable system of food production, because it works so well.
Nutrient rich fish water is pumped from the fish tank into grow beds filled with gravel, round river stones, or expanded clay balls, and is evenly distributed by a simple system of pipes.
Plants such as tomato's, cucumbers, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, growing in the grow bed media, extract the nutrients from the water filtering through the grow bed, finally returning the water back into the fish tank, by gravity or by pump, cleaned of excess nutrients and freshly oxygenated.
So an Aquaponics system is made up of a tank containing the fish of choice, and a series of Grow Beds for vegetable production.
