Updated articles on sustainable living.
Gone are the days of hiding a heap of rotting food and garden clippings at the back of the yard, manually turning it with a shovel every week while swatting away rodents. In our first post for Australia's favourite real estate site realestate.com.au, we break it down into 4 easy steps: These days, composting is [...]
It’s Australia’s national Composting Awareness Week so we thought we’d give a refresher on why composting is so essential to the health of our planet and provide some suggestions to combat common barriers to composting: There are two big reasons we should compost our food scraps: Almost half of our household waste is food waste. [...]
by Lydia Blocksidge Victory Gardens Let us take you on a food journey back in time. During the First and Second World Wars food, labour and transportation shortages were prevalent all over the world. Countries including the US, Germany and England set out to fix the problem by encouraging people to grow their own food. [...]
Being as waste free as possible is very important to us and composting has a large part to play - you simply cannot go waste free without it. So to help you out, out clever intern Elly Hill put together a quick guide to get you started, no matter where or how you live. We [...]
Urban agriculture (UA) is one of our favourite topics here at Sustainable Table, because we recognise it is the way forward to a sustainable and secure food future. So when volunteer Lauren Salathiel came to us with this story of a wildly successful UA project in the UK ("UA to the UK yo") we had [...]
Growing Green: how herbs can help the planet by Melanie Barker Recently I read an article in the paper about the current food to population-growth ratio and it stated that Earth will need to produce 70% more food by 2050 in order to sustain a predicted population of over 9 billion people . As individuals [...]
It’s International Composting Awareness Week this week (if you missed our intro to the initiative, read here). Composting is uber important. Not only does it recycle vital nutrients that plant life (all life) depends upon, it diverts food waste away from landfill. For every tonne of food waste not sent to landfill, almost one tonne [...]
Little do people know of the environmental harm done by sending food waste to landfill. Let us explain: Up to 40% of household waste is food waste. That means that almost half of the stuff households send to landfill is food/organic waste. When organic matter like food waste rots in the anaerobic environment of landfill, [...]
Words and images by Sofia Strandberg Growing our own veggies is probably one of the most efficient ways that we can keep our food miles and packaging waste down (down down!). But, the reality is, a lot of us aren’t blessed with a beautiful big back yard. Heck, many of us don’t even [...]
What problems arise from poor sanitation, and conventional farming practices, and how can fixing one problem be the solution to the other? Every day, 4,900 children die from sanitation related diseases. That is one child every 20 seconds. At the same time, conventional farming practices that involve the use of petroleum-based chemicals degrade soil quality [...]
