Featured
Recipe 1: Green Bean Salad with Smoked Chicken and Lemon-Thyme
A fresh summer salad of gently blanched Green Beans, Zucchini ribbons, Peas, Mint and Extra-virgin Olive Oil, served with slices of organic Smoked Chicken and a zesty Lemon-Thyme vinaigrette.
Sound fancy. It is... but it's also dead easy, and the perfect way to showcase your home grown summer produce.
Jon Kingston – Sydney King
Jon Kingston describes himself as a 'free range urban horticulturalist'.
He spends his time designing, installing and maintaining balcony and roof top garden spaces around Sydney, Australia.
Spring Vegetable Planters
Spring is the perfect time of year to start a container vegetable garden, the weather is looking better, and when it comes to planting options you’re spoilt for choice.
If this is your first attempt at a small space garden, you don’t need much to set yourself up for some fantastic results and a lush, bountiful garden come summer-time.
To get started all you need are some robust and reliable vegetable planter boxes, potting mix, and some seedlings.Carrie Forest – California Dreamin’
Carrie Forrest is California-based blogger sharing inspiration for healthy, balanced living.
Her professional background is in non-profit healthcare fundraising and masters degrees in business administration and in public health (nutrition).
Paul and Angela – NY City Living
Paul and Angela are New Yorkers, who have been married now for 15 years.
Whilst Angela works in the medical field, Paul spends most of his time in broadcasting, and performing hip-hop around the US as UncommonNasa.
When the couple were able to buy their own home, they didn't want the traditional house with a picket fence and yard.
Ryan Young – Changing the Landscape
People often ask Ryan Young what makes him different to other landscape designers, and what is a ‘Sustainable Landscape’?
"The core to ensuring a landscape design is sustainable, is to have a holistic approach built around ‘energy spent to energy gained’." Young explains.
Small Space Gardening at Home
For many, turning a small balcony, patio or courtyard into a lush, green oasis can feel daunting... especially if you have the familiar history of failed pot plants or wilted window herbs haunting you.
Welcome to Lloyd The Farmer’s Mail
Welcome to Lloyd the Farmer's Mail, where our gardening guru Lloyd will do his best to post gardening tips and plant-based musings to try and help our rapidly expanding Glowpear family get the best out of their Gardens. Please let Lloyd know if there are particular topics you would like to see covered here, and we will endeavour to keep it all relevant and interesting.
The Coulthards – Family Farming
The Coulthard family of Melbourne are busy bees. Stuart Coulthard is a director of Rubiix, a boutique business accounting firm. Stuart's wife Yasmin is a dentist and runs her own Arbonne business which is a beauty, skin care and healthy living product range. They have been married for 6 years and have 2 young children Harper (4 years) and Darcy (2 years) who keep them busy, and entertained.
Wanda Hernadi – A Green Epiphany
Wanda Hernadi is one Glowpearian who knows where she's going. Her corporate career and busy lifestyle mean she's always on the go, however she took the time to write to us recently to share her "green"
epiphany.