Pip’s Issue 28 is packed full of inspiration and information to nourish yourself and the planet.
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Ever dreamed of picking deliciously ripe stone fruit from your own backyard? Winter is the time to put the work in if you are wanting to be picking sun-warmed fruit in summer.

While great quality fruit is available seasonally at farmers markets and roadside stalls, nothing…

The reasons to try your hand at grafting are many and varied. As well as increasing the varieties of fruit you’ll be harvesting each year, you’ll be improving pollination, extending your fruiting season and creating important diversity to benefit your patch.

In simple terms, grafting is…

Winter can feel like a bleak, barren time in nature and many gardeners find slim pickings from the patch as we wait for our winter vegies to sweeten with the arrival of frosts. A simple solution to filling the nutrient gap is to turn to…

By learning more ways to cook the lesser- known vegies this season produces, you’re increasing diversity in the kitchen and giving yourself more planting options for your patch.

This time of year produces plenty of vegies that often get overlooked for the garden or in the…

A considered renovation and clever retrofitting turned a small dilapidated house on Wathaurong country into a rustic, coastal retreat for this creative young family.

When Harriet Birrell (otherwise known as Natural Harry) and husband Fraser West needed somewhere to live, they felt overwhelmed by the price…

When we try to live our best life each and every day, things can get overwhelming. Just don’t let the thing that has to give be your own wellbeing.

In an ideal world, we are doing it all. We’re practising all the old homesteading techniques our…

A considered renovation and clever retrofitting turned a small dilapidated house on Wathaurong country into a rustic, coastal retreat for this creative young family.

When Harriet Birrell (otherwise known as Natural Harry) and husband Fraser West needed somewhere to live, they felt overwhelmed by the price…

For Jaclyn Crupi and her partner Andrew Stewardson, transforming a disused tennis court into a productive vegie garden was about finding a design that balanced history, happiness and health.

In 2019, Jaclyn and Andrew acquired half an acre on the Mornington Peninsula, less than 100 kilometres…

Ross O’Reilly is the visionary behind High Valley Dawn, a 140-acre seaside off-grid property nestled in the Capricorn Coast in Queensland, of which the Darumbal people are the traditional custodians. Established in 2016, it has the optimal climate for growing food, allowing Ross to work…

It’s pretty common to have a handful of broken, old or rusty garden tools that you’ve vowed to get around to repairing one day. With a bit of elbow grease, patience and creativity, not only can you get them back to good working order, but…

Hot water bottles are an efficient low-cost method of taking the chill off your bed, or warming parts of your body. This homemade woollen cover will improve its efficiency.

Used cleverly, a thermal layer or two of woollen fabric has the ability to improve the quality…

TREK FOR CHANGE

Pip subscriber and environmental educator Lizz Hills is trekking 6000 km from Brisbane to Perth in a bid to inspire youths to reconnect with the planet and give it the love and care needs. The six-month ‘Trek2Reconnect’ journey has so far taken her…

Handmade from extra-virgin olive oil, botanicals and other natural ingredients, this ball of soap comes in a double-layered cotton mesh bag that’s designed to hang on your garden tap. After a day in the garden, just rub the bag between your hands for a moisturising…

Local permaculture farms help change the global food system by connecting with each other. Evidence shows that creating, protecting and restoring local small-scale agro-ecological food systems around the world is key to feeding the world in a just and sustainable way, while restoring biodiversity and…

You can prune your deciduous fruit trees up to three or more times throughout the year, but the major cutback should be done in the cold winter months, before the sap rises. Start the pruning season with the early fruiters, such as apricot, nectarine, plum…

While winter can conjure cozy thoughts of being snuggled around fires, it also brings with it a host of sniffles, colds and flu which get us down. That doesn’t have to be the end of the story though, not if you know how to care…

My mum thinks my vegie garden is Pip worthy, so I thought I’d send you a photo. We’re looking at newly planted lettuce, baby spinach, newly seeded lettuce and carrots. Then, in the next bed; beans, bunching onions, lettuce, all sorts of herbs, tomatoes and…

Not a conifer or an oak as the name would suggest, the coastal she-oak is native to southeast Australia. A member of the Casuarinaceae family, she-oaks are drought hardy and fire resistant.

Aboriginal use of native plants is often threefold. The plant may provide a valuable…

Silverbeet is native to the sea coast of Spain, Portugal and islands of the Mediterranean Sea. Wild sea beets are still found in the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands and Sicily. Beetroot, sugar beet and forage beet are also classified as Beta vulgaris.

Silverbeet, also…

Striking in their appearance, Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) mushrooms have been a favourite among foragers all around the world for many years due to their immunity- boosting properties.

Found in damp forests growing on dead or decaying hardwood trees, logs and stumps, turkey tail mushrooms are…

The moon’s phases and its associated gravitational pull has a significant effect on the behaviour of tidal oceans, so it’s easy to understand how the moon can have a similar effect on the moisture in our soils and plants. By planning what you sow to…

We love seeing what kids are growing with their families in their gardens, so snap and email us an image of what you’re harvesting at the moment.

Send the photo to editorial@ pipmagazine.com.au, and our favourite will receive a copy of Slow Fashion by Megan Anderson….

The country is at a crossroads. In The Wires That Bind, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith reveals the world that awaits us if we make the most of Australia’s energy future.
Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively…

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Catalyst Soil Conditioner Liquid is a fermented fertiliser containing a…

I was immediately attracted to this tarpaulin because it is made of canvas. Most tarps these days are made of polyethylene and over time they get weak and degrade, shedding strips of plastic all over the place as they eventually fall apart.

The beauty of canvas…

Far more than an online gardening shop offering good old-fashioned customer service, Brian and Kaylene Chapman’s Aussie Gardener Store website has built an online gardening community where you can shop, share, connect and learn.

Aussie Gardener Store’s aim is simple: to simplify gardening so everyone can…

Welcome to another issue of Pip. I am coming into my tenth year of publishing this terrific title. When I started Pip, my youngest child was a baby, we were living in our shed, building our house and I had a crazy idea to start…