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How To: Make Your Own Chia Pet
While Chia seeds are making a comeback, it isn’t in the way that many 80s and 90s kids remember them. Back in the glory days, chia seeds weren’t for eating, they were for crafting! Chia pets had a variety of incarnations, but our fond memories are of the homemade creatures are made from mum’s old […]
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Permaculture: Solving the World’s Problems, One Garden at a Time
When I speak with Mandy Stubbs on a Sydney spring morning, she is busy in the kitchen. “I’m just making a pineapple cake,” she says casually. “I’ve got some pineapple which isn’t that good, so I decided to make a cake with it.” It’s this initial comment that lets me know that this woman is serious […]
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Permaculture Community Garden: a hidden gem
As we traipsed down the Pacific Highway in the blazing afternoon sun, we were skeptical about whether we had come to right place. ‘Opposite the Great Northern Hotel, just behind the Uniting Church’, was how our PermaPatch representative, Colin Maltman, had described the location of the Permaculture Community Garden. As the cars burned past us, […]
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Spring Planting Guide – October
The weather is well and truly heating up here at Sumo HQ, which has us excited about all of the Summer veggies that are about to start bursting in abundance. There is still time to get planting, especially if you are lucky enough to be enjoying the public holiday today! We have grabbed some info […]
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Spring Tomato Planting Guide
Spring is upon us and one of our favourite things about this is that tomatoes are about to become a whole lot juicier and more delicious. In-store we are featuring tomatoes more as part of our focus on seasonal produce, with our New Season Tomato and CousCous Express Deli Salad. Now is also the perfect […]