One family's quest for inner city sustainability | Becoming self-sufficient | Gardening Australia
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- The thoughtful renovation of this terraced townhouse means it can provide all its own power, capture rainwater, recycle organic waste, grow its own food, raise chickens, all while housing a growing family.
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“We said how we wanted to live and we left the design to the designers,” said Geoff. “A productive garden was always very important to us,” added Julie.
The home is split over two levels, with three areas of internal gardens. At the ground level there is a small backyard courtyard with garden beds, plus a planted internal atrium. On the second level there is a substantial external garden, dedicated to food growing. Here are the chickens and an aquaponics set up, feeding a wall-mounted vegie garden. They have found it especially good for leafy greens and taking cuttings. Compost is made and stored under garden seats.
All of the water that falls on the property is stored in a 5000-litre underground rain tank, some feeding the wicking beds where fruit trees and other plants grow. Julie says one of the standouts in this area is the now towering paw paw, bearing fruit and casting shade over the courtyard. “It randomly germinated from the compost. It was strange because we don’t really eat paw paw!”
They have found that layering plants - such as lettuce under fruit trees - is also an efficient way to use limited space.
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Impressive, a clever use of a tiny space, and it's lovely to see sustainability in the city.
agreed. we could use more of it!
Nice to see a genuine small city garden. Mostly when I see on UA-cam a "small city garden" located in USA or Australia, it is almost what we (here in the Amsterdam region) consider a park. But this is really inspiring!! Great what they did and thanks for sharing.
It's true, constraints encourage creative thinking and innovative ideas. I love the fact that all rainwater is harvested from the property and utilised. What a wonderful set up!
there are so many resources that people are unaware of. collecting your own rainwater is just one!
Amazing setting, but worth a heck of a lot of money. Beautiful, but not for all pockets.
Sooo much money.....
Constraints
Ya know I was saying this too gosh wish I had dem deep pockets but it's nice to see they're putting it to good "green" use.
It is something a person could build themselves cheap too. They just had the money to make it streamline but if you don't then do it cheap. It still works .
@@lovecreatesfreedom sure
Finally! A townhouse like ours! Every other 'suruburban' video I've watched has massive amounts of land and a huge house. Great job!
you can pack a lot of punch in a small space!
Every thing is possible if we put our minds to work.
They are doing an Awesome job.
And everything looks so organized and tidy.
Thanks for sharing.
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Nice Thoughts.
Fantastic architecture, (those counterbalanced atrium window omg) to nestle a thoroughly well planned garden into. Lovely for the whole family.
A bigger chook house or letting them free range except for sleeping would be ideal.
Congratulations to that family.
Saludos desde Chile.
If they can do it in a cramped city, we can do it anywhere 👍🏻
Superb, what a beautiful garden. Helow from Samosir Island
Absolutely beautiful
Thank you!
constraints certainly lead you to try new things. We too are in the city, but on a first floor apartment, with quite a large balcony - and have been able to make it pretty productive. Asking a bit much of our neighbours to have chickens here though.
Gorgeous 🌈🌟
Great show people 💯💯💯👍👍👍
What a place..
Beautiful and a great model.
Lovely
Love your stuff kick on love it
The plants do not eat the bacteria in an aquaponics setup. The fish produce ammonia. The ammonia is broken down in the plant beds by two types of bacteria. One turns ammonia into nitrites and the other turns those nitrites into nitrates. The plants consume the converted nitrates. The more ya know
I was a bit taken back by that also, because it was the first time I'd heard someone say that - always only the way you've explained it.
Que lindo grande lugar su jardín 😍❤🌺🍀🐾🐈👏👍👶😍 guapa bendiciones desde Paraguay
Great use of space...must be nice when money is no object.
Can you show the the whoe house design/perspective. Thank you
Wow 👍
Very nice, I wish to see something like that in an apartment
Very cool ! Although with the 3 hens that green patch won't last long (and I wouldn't picnic there with all the poop coming out of those beasts ♥️)
Thumbs up for using meters
How do I build the pond aquaponic system? I love it!
Not really aquaponics if you can't consume the fish. Didn't look like there was much growing in the vertical gardens. Only 5000 litres?
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This should be humanities future
Living in a box in the city?. I don't think so.
Hahahahahaha
More of this please! I don't think he explained the aquaponics system properly tho
Google it then ya geezer
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what kind of fish they have? Its nom very common in Spain. Thanks
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The problem with being sustainable or even green is it’s so freaking expensive no one can afford it not a regular working family that does it have like architectural degrees things like that I hope everyone’s reading this and makes a statement about it because it’s true I can’t even afford to have the solar panels put on my house because they’re so so freaking expensive and I am totally organic partially sub stainable
i agree! i have started organic gardens this past year and it can be quite expensive! also i can not imagaine working a full time job and keeping a garden! i also would love solar panels but cant afford them!
Anyone aware of the chicken breed?
These houses I’ve seen are awesome- but I feel you would have to be quite wealthy to afford.
Sounds like rich people showing off how much money they have. Most working adults who've bought these types of properties won't be able to do that.
When he says not having constraints = $$$$$ to throw around for experiments to harvest a three eggs a day and a couple heads of lettuce. Not sustainable or feasible for most people unfortunately.
That's true, but not everything needs to work for everyone. I'm happy they've chosen a lifestyle they enjoy and that doesn't produce as much waste and damage as it could. And if it inspires other wealthy people to make different choices then that's a win.
Not sure if gardening Australia or grand designs wannabe?
What's the address? Be worth robbing them I reckon.
See Revelation 14:12 please it tells the 2 characteristic of what a saint is, very informative.
Revelation 14:12
(King James Version)
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Too much money 🤑💰🤑💰🤑💰🤑
WHATS …WOTHUU.????
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This is a parody white wash of bored rich people seeking purpose.
I liked your content. Just loose the beard , mustache and cut your hair. It ain't pleasant for viewers. You'll see tons of views and subscribers
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