Sustainable Macleod
Projects by Sustainable Macleod include the highly successful Vegie Swap, Community Garden, Tool Library and Seed Bank and a yearly sale of plants.
Plant to Harvest November
Sat 2 Nov, 12 – 1pm
Come along to the Plant to harvest series held monthly at Sustainable Macleod Community Garden. This month you will learn to grow exceptional zucchini, pumpkin, melons and cucumber. You will receive some seeds or seedlings to take home.
Plant Sale at Eltham Market
Sun 3 Nov, 8am – 1pm
This year we will be offering 15 types of heritage tomatoes, various spring vegetable seedlings, strawberry, raspberry and red currant plants, herbs, ginger, turmeric and galangal. We’ll also be selling Queensland Fruit Fly supplies.
What’s going on
Check out our complete calendar of events for Sustainable Macleod which lists the latest workshops and social events.
Latest from the blog
Featuring the latest Macleod news along with a variety of gardening and growing tips, recipes and information on sustainable living.
July garlic hint
July is an easy month! All you need to do is keep your garlic weed free, netted to prevent cockatoo strike and watered if there is insufficient rain. If you did not enrich your soil prior to planting, give each row a side dressing of blood and bone but if you did,...
Dealing with suckers!
For the health of fruit trees, it is important to remove suckers at pruning time. Suckers are the shoots that grow from the rootstock beneath the graft on fruit trees. Most fruit trees are grafted, sometimes having several grafts on the one tree. The rootstock is a...
Love your gadgets? – let’s recycle the batteries that power them!
Love your gadgets? – let’s recycle the batteries that power them! As the world shifts towards renewable energy, our search for the best battery storage technology has galloped along. Our appetite for cordless gadgets and portable things has also grown in ways we could...
8 cool things about mosses
Until recently I’ve never paid mosses much attention. I’m ashamed to admit I remember peeling blankets of moss off rocks as a kid and building imaginary fairy villages with them. Lately though, I’ve been appreciating their beauty as they reappear in the bush and...
What is a sustainable community? Part 2
What is a sustainable communityPart 2: Inclusion, diversity and belonging Last month I used Sustainable Macleod as an example of an organisation seeking to assist the development of a sustainable community. In this article, I want to dig a little deeper, into what a...
Pruning and care of fruit trees
Pruning and care of fruit trees First published in July 2022 Top tips follow the timetable below for individual fruit trees prune on a warm, dry day, especially for apricots and cherries avoid using wound healing sprays remove suckers avoid Bordeaux mix and use lime...
Join Sustainable Macleod
Become a member and get access to the community garden, the tool library and our seed library. We welcome all members of the community and have regular events and workshops to enjoy.