Logan Food Gardeners

My yard has had a major transformation these last 2 days.  Had some tree loppers come and take out one big tree, one small tree and trim back 3 large trees.  The big tree was removed as it would shade the solar panels we are installing soon.

They mulched the lot and then left the mulch.  I already had a huge pile of mulch that was left after I had some other trees removed a few months ago, so the new pile was huge.

This afternoon I had a bobcat come and move the mulch…

I would like to start a blog listing all great local websites that you may know off.

The first one is from an overarching 'saving nature and people in Logan" type of site. There is a lot on it. Have a look: http://www.laca.org.au/

Under sustainable living it has a lot of great tips as well as the sad news on its homepage that 14 koalas are dead per week in Logan. Time to act?

On Wednesday I took the 'Cat-o-nine tails' tour to St Helena Island on Morton Bay and had a great day out. It's about a 4 km walk around the Island and lunch and drinks come with this guided tour of this ex Prison Island.

It was disturbing to see that National Parks has taken it upon themselves to use much of the Island to raise bloody beef cattle as a revenue source. Guess they can argue that cattle farming had been one of the prison's means of generating an income, but the effect on…

As a beginner food gardener, I love gleaning insights about how experienced gardeners go about producing food for the table.  Attending just a couple of Logan Food Gardeners' meetings has given me confidence to try some of the projects that I have seen.  From the last meeting, I took some Chia seeds that Trinette kindly brought along and have already harvested my first micro greens (yummy on sandwiches and salads).    I was moving some wood the other day and saw heaps of worms.  Instead of…