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What's in the yellow punnet?
The yellow punnet is a part of the highly visual branding of
Farmer’s Choice Organics seedlings; along with the unique spiral
logo on the propagation tag, they form an easily recognizable
assurance to the home gardener that they are purchasing a robust,
fully sun hardened Certified Organic seedling.
The yellow punnet holds 8 plants in a deep healthy hand blended
organic soil mixture, as well as being visually attractive the
punnets have been manufactured to a higher standard allowing them to
be reused by gardeners in their home potting shed or recycled
through our many supporting outlets in the northern rivers and south
east Queensland. Our Organic cleaning and sanitising methods allow
us to reuse them many, many times over, thereby reducing the
excessive manufacturing of, and incidence of plastic build-up in our
landfill depots.
We have investigated other forms of
packaging including; corn starch, cardboard, cocoa fibre and many
more, none however have come up to the same effectiveness in energy,
resource and environmental management as producing a quality
Australian made punnet, that is recyclable back to the nursery to be
reused many times over.
What's happening in the Garden?
“The ultimate act of sustainable activism is to grow your own
food”.
At Farmer’s Choice Organics we strive to procure
organic seed for the most robust, nutritious, flavoursome and
interesting of vegetable varieties to meet the needs of gardeners
who have taken up the challenge of ‘active home food production’. To
assist our loyal gardeners in producing sufficient quantities of
vegetables to sustain their family, friends and neighbours, we will
be presenting informative pieces from a variety of local well
informed sources. Regular spots will be presented by Carla Tipping,
owner operator of Precious Plants Nursery in Lismore. Carla is an
Accredited Permaculture Teacher, and was the founding Site Manager
of the Lismore Community Garden.
Each month special guest writers will be covering a wide variety
of subjects in Organics and Biodynamics and sustainable home food
production, and local identities will share their favourite recipes
from the garden.
This month Carla gives an easy guide to the “No
Dig” garden, for those wanting to try this simple approach to
establishing a vegetable patch, so grab a cuppa and retreat to the
garden to enjoy the read.
With Love to your Garden,
Ness & Greg - Farmer’s Choice
Organics.
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