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I've been a fan of composting toilets for decades now. There's just something about NOT shitting in drinking water and making quality composting for my landscape with my own humanure that just makes me feel really good and really smart. I've also long been into making...
The term 'Time Rebel' was coined by Australian-born social philosopher, Roman Krznaric and is someone who works towards intergenerational justice. Meaning every decision they make today considers how it'll impact future generations - hundreds of years from...
This is the 6th year in the row of the Home Harvest edible garden trail and it shows. The conversation around urban food production and food security has more traction and is more normalised more than ever. It wasn't too many years ago when people would look at me...
Living in a city with around 250,000 people, you don't necessarily think you're going to be existing alongside a population of platypus in numerous creek lines that run in and around the city. But here in Nipaluna/Hobart, that's exactly the case. Over the years I've...
It's that time of the year we're we're putting the call out for our next batch of garden hosts to feature in our 6th Home Harvest Edible Garden Trail!! That's right, it's been six years of garden glory. Enormous thanks to the City of Hobart for their ongoing support -...
After many years of dreaming, scheming and then Anton having time to actually build it - the greenhouse of our dreams has arrived into our garden and we are in love. That little stained glass window of a chicken/bird was made by Anton's Grandmother Dorothy and has at...
Hello there... There's so much I want to tell you about what I've been up to for the past month or so. I want to tell you about the incredible people in Townsville Council I got to work alongside for their biannual Eco fiesta (they dressed me as the flower...
The Flower Power Project came from my friend Nadia Danti’s head and heart (she’s the angel above and below right). She was like “hey Hannah, I know we’re all really busy but you wanna use some of our backyards and grow heaps of flowers to give away for free to people...
As we wrap up our fifth Home Harvest edible garden trail, it's always good to pause and take a moment to reflect on the greatness that just was. Cause it was really great. I've organised countless community events and projects over the decades and I reckon this is one...
2023 was a particularly hard year for my little family. There were numerous work and personal stresses which just kept piling up. My partner (Anton) and I kept saying to each other - it's going to get easier, surely nothing else challenging is going to happen. But...