REJUVENATING RUSTY TOOLS If I were an investor at the moment I think I’d invest in vinegar! We’ve gone through large bottles of it for cleaning away mould, and today I used it to tackle rust. Many of our garden tools have gone rusty in this wet season, so Read more…
HOLIDAYING LOCAL & SUPPORTING LOCAL AGRICULTURE Our son came home for the weekend and I explained how, on World Health Day this coming Thursday 7 April, we’re hoping to inspire 365 people to all take one new action to restore planetary health, so that we can have the action Read more…
FIRST OYSTER MUSHROOM HARVEST What an exciting evening! Tonight, 4 weeks and 5 days after taking the plunge and having a go at inoculating recycled paper with spawn, we harvested and ate our first crop of blue oyster mushrooms. It was hard to say goodbye to them after the sculptural Read more…
Transforming surplus veggies into stock powder For today’s new action for A Year in a Day I experimented with creating veggie stock powder to use our surplus and reduce packaging. The basket of saffron milk cap mushrooms we foraged yesterday were more than we needed for dinner so I sliced Read more…
Eating Green to limit global warming The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C WORLD is a new report by the C40 Cities Climate Group, academics at Leeds University, and engineering firm Arup. It addresses the important role cities play in reducing consumption-based emissions to limit global warming. The Read more…
Building strength! As more people have to struggle with the impacts of climate change and geopolitical disruption, there is much to be done as those of us who can, rise to meet the challenges of restoring planetary health. We need to be able to carry, and do, more. To Read more…
Recycling pens and markers It wasn’t until Sue started talking to me at Landcare on Saturday that I began to think about all the old markers and pens lying around the house. When my kids left home, their old pens and textas didn’t. After starting A Year in a Day Read more…
Saturday Night Fever! It’s been a long long time since I used to get upset if I was home alone on a Saturday night. But I remember it vividly and my heart goes out to all the young people experiencing that isolation and disappointment during the pandemic. My heart also Read more…
I simply can’t bear to waste food. As a gardener, I’m aware of the space, time and effort it takes to produce one single cauliflower, for example. There’s no way I’d let any part of it go into the bin! A positive outcome of Lockdown during the pandemic was that Read more…
Tackling procrastination to become a citizen scientist It’s so easy to talk about all the things that need to be done to restore planetary health. Surprisingly, it’s also very easy, and infinitely more satisfying, to actually do something about it. The point of A Year in a Day is to Read more…