Category: Cultivator
A sunny afternoon at Barringwood Estate
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sipping sparkling wine among rolling green hills is hard to beat on a sunny afternoon. I know…
How to naturally purify the air in your house
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the late 1980s, America’s space agency (NASA) studied house plants as a way to clean the…
Save the lobsters
Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier this year I wrote about LaPoinya and logging in Tasmania’s old growth forests. Many months later, the…
The wondrous Pelican Pick
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it a spade, a rake, a pick or one of those toothy creatures from Alien? Actually, it…
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Reading Time: < 1 minute A recent science article reports that our cave dwelling ancestors were often victims of bears and sabre-tooth cats…
Autumn mulching
Reading Time: < 1 minute Autumn is a great time to rake up all the leaves scattered around the garden to use…
Can you be friends with someone who doesn’t believe in climate change?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, a work colleague told me that her decision to leave tropical Queensland for North West Tasmania was motivated by…
Lapoinya’s secret weapon in the fight to save Tasmania’s old-growth forests
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Where’s the hope?” my friend Dave asks as we drive through plantations of recently felled trees. Piles of…