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25.01.2022 GR 256 Dec-Jan 2019-20 out now! Read about the Australian White sheep, a tropical tree change and a permie paradise on a suburban block. Make your own salt and mountain pepper with Jude, your own fetta with Julie, and a macrame pot hanger with Therese! ... Install water-saving garden beds, and make a handy bath shelf, a driftwood mobile, a mosaic pot and waste free fabulous homemade Christmas crackers that snap! There's dwarf goats, organic beef cattle, poultry and heat, and why it's fun to dig up bottles. Save your recipes in a digital recipe book, beat root knot, and have a lovely festive season with a bees theme. Enjoy, dear friends!
24.01.2022 Its lovely and rainy here in Victoria. If you are inside looking for something to watch, the delightful Katrina Forstner, who is on the cover of the April GR, has put together some YouTube tutorials about native bees and making bee hotels! Do check them out! Intro to Native Bees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJATpMGrGY... Bee hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EU6_pz4sY Bee bombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDi_XTeoDQg
22.01.2022 We are extremely proud to share that Megg Miller has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to the poultry industry. Megg has had a lifelong devotion to poultry, best practice, rare breeds and showing, has been on countless committees, and has gone out of her way to help and inspire many poultry people with her knowledge, warmth and interest. We reckon its very well deserved! Congratulations Megg!
22.01.2022 The April/May GR has so much to cheer and inspire you! - Gorgeous Katrina's abundant urban sustainable garden with kids, chooks, compost and native bees. - How Jude balances having a lovely productive garden and welcoming in wildlife including bandicoots. - All about Gypsy vardoes.... - How to successfully garden with children. - Delicious mutter paneer using your own easy homemade paneer cheese. - Knit an Aran scarf. - Jenny from Mallacoota's hair-raising bushfire story. - Direct print onto fabric for unique T-shirt designs. - How Pam has set up her new farm. - Traditional chook breeds and moulting care. - Crafty bookmarks to make. - Damera sheep, easy care and hardy and no shearing required. - Build with DIY papercrete. - Transform your garden with barley straw...and much more! Out in newsagents on 1 April: - newagents are still open - or call newsagent to organise home delivery - or call our office to order a subscription or we can send you the current issue - ph: 0357-924-000 or email: [email protected] Mon to Thurs. - or go to isubscribe (https://www.isubscribe.com.au/grass-roots-magazine-subscrip) Don't miss out on your fabourite reading!! The best company in a pandemic!
21.01.2022 It’s lovely and rainy here in Victoria. If you are inside looking for something to watch, the delightful Katrina Forstner, who is on the cover of the April GR, has put together some YouTube tutorials about native bees and making bee hotels! Do check them out! Intro to Native Bees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJATpMGrGY... Bee hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-EU6_pz4sY Bee bombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDi_XTeoDQg
21.01.2022 Make your own curry powder - Jude Van Heel's recipe plus how to grow and prepare Golden Nugget pumpkins on page 54 of GR 252! Yum
21.01.2022 Read about Clive Blazey's 40 years at Diggers in the latest GR!
20.01.2022 Morgan Koegel has transformed her rented backyard into a productive paradise - read more in GR 251, Feb/March 2019. Photo: Marcel Aucar
20.01.2022 In GR 204, Easter 2011 we made these decorated eggs using food colouring and vinegar! They were quite fiddly but very satisfying and the perfect challenge if you are at home for Easter. Instructions from magazine attached. Have fun!!
17.01.2022 For advertising, subscriptions, queries or assistance, email us at: [email protected] or call 03-5792-4000 between 9-5, Mon to Thurs. Thank you!
16.01.2022 Festive love and joy to you all from the GR Team, and Peaches and Creamy the Pekins! X
15.01.2022 Tree changers take note! Here is a community lifestyle not to be missed! The ‘Coomy Shop’ in SA is the hub of the community and has a friendly customer base. Farmers often gather for lunch & a catch-up. Long time owners are keen to retire and the community is desperate to keep it open. Check it out in our latest issue of Grass Roots. Contact Dave and Di on ph: 08-8573-3076. Genuine enquiries only please.
14.01.2022 Our cover story in GR 223 featured this fabulous tiny home. It's now looking for a new place to call home itself - all the details of the arrangement below. Contact Reece and Bex on their Facebook page below or via email below if interested!
13.01.2022 Emily King is a young market gardener committed to natural farming practices. Read her story in GR 249.
12.01.2022 Dear GRs, any thoughts for Carolyn: Hi. Thinking of moving to Tasmania. Keen to hear suggestions and advice.
09.01.2022 How much would we love to be off in this Gyspy vardo right now! Megg was fascinated to interview the maker, Henk, for the April Grass Roots mag - and now everyone in the office is obsessed with the different vardo designs!
06.01.2022 Dear GRs, Although there is no long term shortage of toilet paper, in case you are in short supply temporarily, I have attached our article 'Wee Wee Wipes' by Lucie Maxwell from GR 213, which explains how to make your own from an old towel or similar. If you have ever used a cloth nappy you will know the drill!
05.01.2022 Country blacksmith Michael Drinkwater's mud brick house. Photo: Nick Richards.
05.01.2022 Any lovely people have suggestions for Marlise? - I would like some advice from GR-ers regarding size of land. We are hoping to retire to Benalla from Melbourne (mid 60-s and healthy still). We would like an acreage of land, however haven't agreed in size: my idea is 10 acre, whereas my partner prefers 40 to 100 acre with the idea to have a large proportion as agistment property. What do we have to think of to agist land? Will we be getting out of our depth with a big prope...rty? We are not planning to do anything with the land except veggy garden, fruit trees (maybe), chickens and maybe some goats. Is there anybody who can give us advice? Does it make sense what we want to do? I have always lived in a village growing up in Holland, so looking forward to country life again. I am hoping to do a hobby farm course or so when available.Thank you, and thanks for the Grassroots mag, I've been reading it ever since I've lived in OZ (since 1986!). Cheers, Marlise. See more
03.01.2022 If you are looking for a present to make for a bub, you can't go past this easy bib shared by Therese Grinter - instructions and template in the latest GR mag #249. Find Therese on Instagram only - @chooktopia
02.01.2022 If you are looking for some eco inspiration, our much loved GR contributor Jude Van Heel has compiled a free ebook called Greener Alternatives - simply click on the link to the book on her ebooks page and it will open up in your screen from her Dropbox. Jude asked all her Fairy Wren Cottage community to contribute their tips for living greener, and you may even find some from Megg and Suni!
01.01.2022 Adeline Barham has created a self-sufficiency paradise on a standard suburban block in the west of Melbourne, with vegies, fruit trees, an amazing planted out verge, quails, and soon bees. Article on page 13 in GR 256. Photo: Supplied.
