Davo's Worm Farms
David and Beth Davidson are at the Buninyong Farmers Market selling their worm farms, worm castings, worm tea as well as compost worms and earth worms.
http://www.davoswormfarms.com.au/
Harvest
Solar Hot Water
Buninyong Garden's house has solar hot water. It is an Edwards - GTS - Series 2.
Full technical specification is available from here.
How to Raise Lettuce Seedlings to give away
Things you will need:
Free: recycled egg cartons, lids removed, white polystyrene box (4 egg cartons to 1 box)
Buy or Make: Seed Raising Mix (see recipes below)
Buy or get from a seed saving friend: Lettuce Seeds (Mine were from the Diggers Club)
Tools: A watering can with a fine head (small holes for watering seedlings) and a spray bottle (for keeping the seeds wet)
Solar Panels
Buninyong Garden's house has a grid connected solar electricity system.
There are 10 BP solar panels. They do not produce enough power to run the whole house - we will need to do an energy audit and will replace inefficient power guzzlers (like fridge and freezer) with the newest most efficient models in the future. We do apply other simple energy saving steps like turning off all appliances at the wall to remove "stand-by" power use.
They were installed by Gee-tek.
Newspaper Pots
You will need:
Recycled: a jar, some newspaper
Potting mix or seed raising mix