New Article For Green Urban Living Members,
Step by step instructions and short video on how to make your own compost tumbler.
Click Here 

 


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

 


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

Click here to find out more

Soapnuts


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

Eco Drain allows you to collect rainwater

$39 each. Click here for more info.

 



visa

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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Green Urban Living is proud to host the web pages of the Save Our Bees Charitable Trust. Visit here . 

 

An invitation to the inaugual NZ Natural Beekeeping Conference. Info here.

 

 

 

      

I am setting myself a challenge! To live off our backyard for 4 months. Read about it here. I am hoping to pull my kids and husband along (kicking and screaming?) for the ride.

 

  carrots liam with eggs

 

book with woolgroMy book Green Urban Living- Simple steps to growing food, keeping chickens, beekeeping and much more in New Zealand Buy it at bookshops and from my website here. 

Learn how easy it is to keep poultry in town. Attend a course and learn how to keep chickens and build a chicken dome. Subscribe to the members only site and download step by step instructions on how to make your very own chicken dome or rectangular run. Buy my Poultry Tonic and Natural Wormer here.

 

Want to get the kids away from that TV or Play Station? Get them out in the garden. Grow and make some birdhouse gourds with them. Buy some Seed Bombs and let them throw them in the garden.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  





Do you want to save money, help save the Planet, grow organic nutrient rich food and provide experiences for your children, that perhaps our grandparents took for granted? Enrol in a Backyards Organics course or subscribe to the Members only section for indepth knowledge on living the 'Good Life' in the City!

 

Attend a course and learn how to make your own Adobe Pizza Oven or subscribe to the members only section and download step by step instructions to build one yourself. Wow your family and friends with wood fired pizza's, fresh bread and baking. All from your pizza oven.

 

 

hand made pizza oven

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pizza oven and fireplace

 

 

Become a backyard beekeeper. Attend a free course, get a Top Bar Hive made for you, download a free E-Book on how to get started. Visit the Green Community for help and advice and to knowledge share.

Hiving a swarm of bees in a Topbar hive.

 

 

 

Take a quick tour around Janet's Summer garden