Just posted for Green Urban Living Members,
ideas on what helpful herbs you can grow in
your garden to use around your home, including 
all the 'witchy poo' lotions and potions I make with them!

 


saving your own seeds- Save money and heirloom plants
pumpkin seeds drying

Here is the step by step instructions
to make a rectangular-shaped
chicken tractor(no Bob the Builder
skills required!). This shape will
fit perfectly over your rectangular
shaped raised beds.

Rectangular Chicken Tractor

 


Eco Drain- Easy, peasy way to collect your own rainwater.

Eco Drain allows you to collect rainwater

$39 each. Click here for more info.

 


Soapnuts- a cleaner, greener way to wash your clothes.

Click here to find out more

Soapnuts


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Mastercard

Accepted here

 



TVHB
Click here for Janet's
interview with TV
Hawke's Bay


Government Funding Available to Insulate Older Homes

In this years budget the Government has announced a non-means tested grant to retrofit older Kiwi homes with insulation. The grant is up to $1800.  Further loans will be available through local councils. The funding becomes available on the 1st July. If you think you need to make your home more cosier click here for further information. 
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Welcome to Green Urban Living

Check out our new Green Shop, stocking only products we can personally recommend. Reduce that carbon footprint and shop from home!

Introducing Green Urban Living Community - a place you can ask advice, share tips and recipes, read reviews on the latest books, equipment or eco gadgets, exchange seeds, plants and much more. Please take a few minutes to register, it is free and easy to do!

To launch this new, exciting feature we are holding some competitions. Post your best chicken keeping secret and win some of my Poultry Health Tonic and Natural Wormer. Share your most successful veggie growing idea, as voted by the Green Community, and win two Veggie Wool Mats

 

 freshly picked organic carrotsGoing green used to be considered hippie behaviour. But now the Planet is groaning under the strain of our unsustainable lifestyles. It is up to us all to help ease the pressure. Green Urban Living can show you ways to live a green lifestyle without having to wear homespun jersey's, socks and sandals and you will still be allowed to shave your legs!

Become a Green Urban Living Member for just $35 per year (normally $55) and learn about how to compost, make your own liquid fertiliser teas and how to build a no-dig garden and grow your own organic vegetables and so much more!!

 

liam feeding a chicken

Learn how to build your own chicken dome or rectangular poultry run, attend a course or become a Green Urban Living Member and download step by step instructions. Have the best housed chooks in the neighbourhood! Buy my natural Poultry Health Tonic and Wormer here.

Quinn with Broadbeans


 

Check out the Green Urban Living garden as featured in the July issue of Next Magazine.

Green Urban Living will again be at this years Auckland Home Show as one of the key design features. Hope to see you there September 8th - 12th.

Chickens make great pets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn how easy it is to keep bees in a Topbar hive. This is how I house my bees in our garden. Buy one here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GreenUrbanLiving.co.nz is all about helping you find ways to make a positive difference in the way you live. If you are like me I am not going to change habits of a life time unless I can see that it is saving me money or precious time when I’m doing it.

By visiting Green Urban Living I am sure that you will find many handy hints and tips to live your Picking dinner from the gardenlife more eco friendly. Much of it is about getting back to basics and reclaiming the knowledge that our grandparents took for granted.

Learn how to keep poultry such as domestic ducks, bantams or chickens in your backyard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

an adobe pizza oven made during workshopAttend a Green Urban Living course and learn how to build your very own Adobe pizza oven or subscribe and become a Green Urban Living Member and download step by step instructions to make one at your home.

 

 

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Need some ideas on how to get the kids way from the TV
or Play Station and re-connecting with nature. Get them throwing Seed Bombs in the garden or vacant space.

 

 

 

 
A Beneficial bug Hotel

 

 

 

A Bug Hilton, I built in my garden to provide
a habitat for beneficial insects. These beneficial
insects help keep the populations of aphids
and other insects off my broccoli! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boys with ChickensKeeping chickens in town is the 'new black', you heard it here first. Attend a course to learn everything you need to keep them successfully in an urban environment. Here are some tips with keeping them, including how to keep them laying through winter and the many different breeds, including bantams.

Learn about other livestock that are well suited to city living, including ducks, bees, worms, quail and rabbits. Follow these easy instructions to make a moveable run for your chooks.



 

 

Growing and making birdhouse gourds is a great project to do with the kids and helps to attract birds into your garden.

Birdhouse Gourds

boys sanding gourds