Sustainable Living

Learn effective tips and tricks to manage flies in your compost bin. Discover how to maintain the right balance of materials, proper moisture levels, and use natural fly deterrents. Enhance your composting experience with practical solutions to keep your bin healthy and productive.

Composting is an easy and sustainable way to recycle your food and garden waste, and it all starts with a good mix of greens and browns. Greens are high in nitrogen, while browns are high in carbon, and a healthy compost pile should maintain a balance of approximately two parts browns to one part greens. Let's see what waste we can put in...

The food industry is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

The food on your plate has been on a journey; from being harvested, mixed, combined, packaged, and then shipped requires heaps of energy and cost.

We all need to rethink and question the way we food shop, what we eat and how we depose of it. We have pulled together some easy steps to help you and your family become conscious food shoppers while saving on the pennies!

Attracting unwanted pests is one of the main concerns that new composters have. They don’t want a stinky pile of decaying debris near their home that attracts rats and other pests. Agreed. No one wants that and when a pile of compost is done correctly, there will not be an offensive odour emitting from or pests coming to it.

As summer is winding down you may be tempted to put away the garden tools and forget about the gardening chores until next spring. That would be a ...

Every household produces enough waste to create tons of compost, but to be able to make all of this ‘Black Gold’ we need to choose a compost bin or system that suits our needs. Here we summarise plastic, wooden, tumbler, bokashi and DIY options for composting bins.

In the many ways we try to be more sustainable in our everyday lives, many of us dismiss or forget about composting. We think it’s too impractical or we don’t see how it would help us live a more sustainable lifestyle. All the waste you could compost at home can just decompose in a landfill anyway, can’t it?

Well, it can’t – and that’s only the beginning of why recycling is so important to living sustainably in the 21st century.