A little story to share in celebration of Happy Earth’s 3rd birthday
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 06:18PM This week marks three years since we first started our adventure in urban sustainability here at Happy Earth, turning a typical house and lawn into a healthy, efficient home and abundant food garden. It’s been an epic and rewarding adventure, made so much more rewarding by being able to share it with you! Being part of an on-line community of people passionate about growing good food, eating good food and enjoying all things good and simple in life has been so amazing for us – thank you to you all for being a part of this inspiring and uplifting community!
Recently the lovely Emily Duncan, a journalist student from the local univeristy, popped around to create a short audio visual film about our adventure in sustainability. She did such a fabulous job! See below for the finished product:
Reader Comments (13)
Great video guys! I can't believe it's been three years since you started this adventure! I still remember seeing the pool before it was ripped out, and it hardly seems that long ago. You guys have the most amazing and inspiring house and garden, thanks for being a motivation to imitate :) Lots of love.
That was wonderful. You have achieved so much!! Thanks for sharing :-)
So much better looking than a pool! :)
Doesn't time fly when you're having fun. Have you noticed the neighbours changing their gardens to be more like yours?
Congratulations! And Thank you!
Thanks so much for your lovely comments, glad to hear you liked the clip - Emily did a fabulous job!
Chris, in the Illawarra the number of people interested in organic gardening and veggie growing is really amazing! We're thrilled that one of our next-door neighbours has been inspired to planted some fruit trees - peach, bannana, plum and pawapaw - and has recently got two bee hives. With honey being shared over the fence we couldn't be more thrilled! We have also helped plant a citrus and a fig for another neighbour who was impressed with the idea of growing food at home....here's to the food growing bug jumping across one fence to another!
Hey guys, the video is great! Rich you have a good presenters voice, you should do more of these :)
"Kings wouldn't eat this well" haha!!
:)
ah ps. Video doesnt work in google chrome on OSX, it says 'Missing Plug In'...which is weird as i have the latest flash installed and chrome is html5 compatible
Why can't I see the embedded clip just white space? Using IE8
Glad you liked the clip Dan!
We're not sure why you can't view the video sorry Mike, and why it doesn't work in Google Chrome....we'd suggest tying another browser :-)
Just FYI, Safari and Adobe doesn't work, Internet Explorer 8 and Adobe doesn't work either.
Really lovely lovely clip - the humble storey telling direct from your experience and passion is very energising. thanks!
Happy Birthday Guys!!
You have been an amazing inspiration to many. Keep up the great work and lets see what else you can "grow" in the next three years.
Happy birthday
wow your place looks great
So glad i found ur site an inspiration
and gives me some ideas of what will grow well down hear
i live about 15 min away,