The Veggie Club

Composting is not just managing waste. Your compost heap is alive. A single teaspoon of healthy compost contains more microbes than there are people on earth. By composting, you aren't just managing waste; you’re managing a tiny, productive ecosystem.

International Composting Awareness Week Australia

Worms are the ultimate "silent workers" for our land. A healthy worm farm can eat its own weight in scraps every day. They turn your leftovers into "worm tea," which is one of the most powerful natural liquid fertilizers on earth.

International Compost Awareness Week

Around 50% of organic waste materials are in the average household bin. Every year Australian households generate around 14.6 million tonnes of organic waste. If you just compost it, you instantly halve your rubbish output and stop the "bin juice" that makes your bin smell.

International Composting Awareness Week Australia

Compost is a water-saving tool. Adding just 5% more compost to your soil can quadruple its ability to hold water. Whether you’re watering a balcony pot or a regional veggie patch, composting is a modern way to protect our land from drought.

Camden Council International Composting Awareness Week Australia

When food is trapped in a plastic bag underground, it produces methane - a gas that's 25 times more potent than car exhaust at heating the atmosphere. Composting lets the scraps breathe, turning that gas into solid nutrients.

Camden Council International Composting Awareness Week Australia

Find out what's wrong with your compost this week.

It's this week so now's your chance to learn how to fix any problems with your compost.

I'm running workshops with Camden Council for free. And you'll get a free 25ltr bag of compost to take home with you.

Tuesday 5th, 6:30pm @ Oran Park Library
Wednesday 6th, 10am @ Oran Park Library
Saturday 9th, 10am @ Council Depot, Narellan

Bookings essential - DM for rego link.
(but show up anyway if you miss the deadline for registrations because there might be some no-shows on the day)

Soft or crunchy?

Today's your chance to check out some amazing gardens in the Southern Highlands NSW.

It's another perfect autumn day to go to open gardens that you wouldn't otherwise see. And make a stop at the newly opened Burradoo Park Farm.

It's definitely worth a Sunday drive and the weather couldn't be more perfect.

Don't forget to stop by the plant fair at to grab some take home goodies too.

Australia’s highest-volume pesticides widely used in agriculture are banned in other parts of the world, according to a new study led by .

Researchers from Griffith’s School of Environment and Science analysed 45 pesticide products used in volumes of more than 100 tonnes per year, identified through the Australian Government’s now archived Agricultural Chemical Usage Database.

The findings were stark: 60 per cent of Australia’s high-use pesticides were now banned in the European Union.

A further 24 per cent were approved in Europe but banned in at least one other country, and just 16 per cent retained full international approval.

“These findings set Australia apart from the rest of the world and raise questions about how our chemical regulatory frameworks and pesticide-use patterns differ from the rest of the world,” said co-lead author Professor Susan Bengtson Nash.

“The continued use of pesticides banned overseas places Australia increasingly out of step with leading international chemical policy reform and may complicate trade, particularly given that more than 70 per cent of Australia’s primary produce, worth nearly $80 billion annually, is exported.”

Read the full report here
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c15716?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcARMNqNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAadCMfdmDdk63-1rbEpLVzCE_U8MTvuYjoKp0ctyC4Iu5EQA_n4rGzpUwnw67A_aem_ghnI3rvxv9RtCI_NTmVdKQ