Words by Jade Peace On the first morning of Spring, Kit and I did a little maintenance in the garden at 241 Bondi Road. Our job was to empty one of our “cooked” compost bins and use the nutritious compost to fill one of our raised beds that has been neglected of late. During this…
Winter garden tips from Juan Carlos Negrete, chef at Three Blue Ducks, and permaculture designer. It seems like this weather has hit us all. Everywhere I look, there are hibernating people trying to recover from colds and sore throats and to stay away from torrential rains and cold nights. The bees have locked themselves in…
words by Daniel Parsa I told an acquaintance of mine that I have moved houses more than anyone that I know. She said she may be holding that record. After a quick countdown, I think both of us can be in the Guinness Book of Records in our age brackets for having moved houses so many…
Bondi Farmers Market coffee cart have some ‘gold’ waiting to be claimed by keen gardeners and composters. We mean coffee grounds of course. Spent coffee grounds are what’s leftover after brewing a perfect shot of espresso. They are chemically neutral in the soil, and provide texture and bulk. Worms enjoy it too if you have…
At long last, Bondi Beach will be getting a reverse vending machine for empty drink containers. Litter is a massive problem in Bondi. The NSW EPA’s Return and Earn program incentivises the recycling of empty drink bottles, making it more likely they will be recycled instead of littered. The machine will be located behind the Bondi Pavilion in…
Words by Natalie I’ve been living in Bondi for about four years, and have walked by a vacant flower bed outside my unit block every single day. It’s always bothered me that it’s typically been a dumping ground for rubbish, and nothing much seemed to grow there. A few months ago, I set out to…
Words by Kate Transition Sydney founder, permaculture teacher and social entrepreneur Lance Lieber is backing the efforts of organic growers to save the wild gene pool and conserve our edible food crops – more specifically, making sure we heed the dire warnings of crop scientists and the Ecological Society of Australia about the loss of…
Words by Kit, and pictured above are Kit and Gonzalo. When walking (my main form of transport) around Bondi there are many small areas to be seen – at the edges of lanes or on verges – with a look of neglect, or abandonment from earlier efforts to grow something. The term tragedy of…
At next week’s Film & Feast, Transition Bondi will be screening the film Waste Land and hearing about Southern Sydney’s waste and recycling strategies from Louie Leung, waste educator for the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC). To prepare for Film & Feast, we presented some questions to SSROC. Here’s what the organisation had to…
By Jacob Freeman The east coast bunya-bunya pine originated from the Bunya Mountains in Queensland. The tree was of immense cultural significance to the life and food security of the Aboriginal people of Australia, who traded the seeds along the Great Dividing Range. Bunya trees were marked with the totems of families that planted and passed them down through the generations. The…
