Category: Newsletters

The month of May was a busy one for we blitzin’ types… No fewer than four permablitzes were had – one in Rosanna, two in Flemington and yesterday in Crib Point. A big thanks...

Winter is now definitely here, and getting out of bed is harder than ever. It’s been great hearing the rain hitting the roof at nights, and the plants are loving it. The brassicas are...

It’s the last month of Autumn, but with the near-total lack of rain you’d barely know it. The weather has been rather mild of late, so you’d certainly forgive the plant-life for being confused!...

We recently enjoyed the first decent rains in Melbourne in almost six weeks, and with any luck we won’t have to wait quite so long before the next time we hear raindrops on the...

Autumn is almost here – and we’re already seeing fallen dry leaves swirling around the streets… That means that many of us are now wrapping up our summer harvests, and getting stuck into preserving...

The last long weekend was a hot and humid one, with us Melbourne-folk getting a taste of the tropics – complete with sweaty nights and a welcome deluge at the end! We’ve had a...

It’s been an incredibly wet start to summer – the rains came down and threatened to wash away seedlings and streets alike! That hasn’t dampened our spirits however, and we’ve been super-proud to see...

In the last month or so Spring has put on quite the show for us – we’ve seen bees swarm and chicks hatch… the apricots, peaches and apples are forming, we’ve already eaten our...

You know it’s Spring when the chooks start getting broody and the bees begin to swarm… Our snowpeas are starting to finally give out after providing good munchings for a fair while now, and...

After the excitement of hitting our 200th blitz last month, it looks like September is shaping up to be a blitzin’ good time for us all – with three events planned so far! And...