A Beginner’s Guide to Composting

A Beginner’s Guide to Composting

A Beginner’s Guide to Composting: Turn Waste into Garden GoldBy Marie Bella Compost is a soil-like material that is created when vegetable and plant matter break down. It’s widely accepted around the world as a superfood for your garden, but it’s not a modern...
Veggie Gardening in Hot Months

Veggie Gardening in Hot Months

By Jodie Eden Looking for inspiration for your Tablelands veggie garden in November? My advice is: Wait until March! Yes, use the months between now and then to plan and prepare your garden beds, but if you are not already well set up for gardening in hot dry...
Backyard Gardening Tips

Backyard Gardening Tips

Backyard Gardening Tips By Jodie Eden Agriculture, farming, land management & all goodthings from the Tablelands legendary red dirt. On the Tablelands, I always encourage beginner gardeners to start growing veggies in Autumn because we have ideal conditions then....
Living With Snakes

Living With Snakes

There are over 40 species of snakes found in Tropical North Queensland, and the Atherton Tablelands offers a range of varied and unique habitat types for many of them. These include the highly venomous Coastal Taipan, and the largest of Australian pythons the...
Winter Gardening: It’s Cool

Winter Gardening: It’s Cool

Written by Jodie Eden Imagine for a moment that you live in England. You’re on the opposite side of the planet so summer has just started for you. Today you had a minimum of 10°C and a maximum of 20°C. Sound familiar? England’s summer temperatures are similar our...
Plastic Free July

Plastic Free July

Written By Julia Mauro Reducing the amount of plastic in our lives can improve our general wellbeing. If you avoid plastic, you are more likely to consume whole foods, avoid unhealthy processed foods, feel comfortable by wearing clothes made from natural fibres, use...