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LIVING SIMPLY FOR THE FUTURE
22 Root to leaf: Eating the whole plant
28 Grow your own heirloom zucchinis
62 Festive season: Organic drinks
66 Slow clothing: Make, mend and repurpose
74 Costa on life, gardening and the planet
81 Happy holidays for chooksoganic gadning
16 20th anniversary: looking back, looking forward
As part of our 20th anniversary, we asked some of our
longstanding contributors, past and present, to talk
about their gardening lives, the changing environment
and our fragile future. They offer hope, despair and
everything in between.22 kitchen: waste not (making every part count)
We often waste edible parts of common vegetables
and herbs – Justin Russell explains what we are
missing out on.
28 grow: super producers
Penny Woodward says zucchinis can be flavoursome
and prolific, making a great vegie garden staple.
35 grow: a herb to dye for
Penny Woodward loves the beautiful, butter-yellow
flowers of dyer’s chamomile, its attractiveness to
butterflies and its usefulness as a dye.
36 biology: the cryptogamic garden
Ecologist and photographer Alison Pouliot delves
into the unheralded world of mosses, liverworts,
lichens and more, explaining their valuable role in
the garden and how to encourage them.
43 action: to your health
Gardening is not just about work, make sure you leave
space and time to just get out in your garden and enjoy!
78 natural solutions: cane toads
Simon Webster looks at how we can slow the march
of the cane toads from the north into southern states.contents
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