Compost * - Cressida Campbell , 1994.
Australian , b . 1960 -
Oil on canvas , 51 x 51 cm.
*'My mother had a little plastic ice-cream container for the compost heap, which was downstairs at the end of the garden. She always ate papaya or other fruit for breakfast and often asked me to take the container downstairs for her. When I was visiting for dinner, I thought it looked like a particularly beautiful composition of colour and shape and design, so I said, ‘I’ll come over tomorrow and draw it.’'—Cressida Campbell
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Selected Garden Objects by Syboulette Converted 4t2
A conversion of several objects made by @syboubou from Sims 4 to Sims 2.
Contains compost bin, water pump and water hose from their “A la ferme” set as well as a planter from “Hortensia garden” set.
Compost bin is meant to work with @lamare-sims’s and mine Planting Overhaul mod. Comes in all the original colors plus Cluedo woods by @shastakiss.
Planter works as a planter (4 slots) and needs @honeywell-mts garden plot or @lamare-sims edited version of it to work with Planting Overhaul mod. I’d also recommend having this fertilizing fix by@midgethetree.
Compressed, clearly labelled, picture included.
Download at SFS
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UPDATE 28/07/2023:
Added polycounts directly in the object’s description, cleaned up the planter file a bit and centered it a bit differently, nothing major.
UPDATE 29/02/2024:
Major update: replaced images in the post, smoothed out meshes, removed shine, made quarter tile placeable, fixed too dark recolors, moved planter and adjusted slots, cleaned up files inside, deleted mipmaps. If you ever ran into issues with any of these objects, chances are they are now fixed.
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Jerry is north of Brisbane to visit a home gardener who has built a remarkable food garden over a decade, that enabled her to avoid food shopping for an entire year. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe
Around 15 years ago Sonia and her partner Rob decided they wanted to start building a food garden. “We never did a plan. We just did it bit by bit. We based it on convenience; we walk here so let’s plant here. It just evolved over time.”
In 2019, Sonia set out on a remarkable challenge to eat 100% of her diet from her garden. “It was just to see if I could do it.”
“I did go to bed hungry a couple of times, but only a couple. It was challenging at times. I really missed bread, but it was really amazing the connection I felt to the garden. I’d love to do it again one day. Especially now that I have honey!”
Growing enough food to live off is a huge achievement, and the fruit trees here would have helped immensely. This area holds a litany of temperate, subtropical and tropical fruit trees; loquat, wampis, bananas, citrus, mulberry and peaches to name just a few. The food forest understory is edible too, with smaller cover crops like pepino and nasturtium.
Sonia has a rare passionfruit species to offer Jerry to try. “It’s a Japanese hard-shelled passionfruit (Passiflora maliformis). You crack the shell with a hammer like a nut, and the flesh is a really creamy passionfruit flavour.”
Nearby, Sonia has an entire area of the garden dedicated to native food plants. Here you’ll find native nutmeg (Myristica insipida, ground kernel used as spice), Fraser Island Apple (Acronychia imperforate, small sweet yellow fruits), white aspen (Acronychia oblongifolia, aromatic white fruit with a pine/mango flavour). She points out the native mulberry (Pipturus argenteus) as her favourite.
Adjacent is an area that Sonia has converted from annual crops into perennial, ornamental natives. Since taking up beekeeping (both stingless and European), Sonia’s been conscious about including more year-round flowering plants in her garden, and to this end, has callistemon, banksia and grevillea planted to help out her growing collection of hives.
Sonia’s not only managing to line her own belly, she’s providing a resource for her community. Out the front of their place she’s set up a stall selling her excess produce, and it’s become very well known in the community. The honesty-based payment system has been such a success, it’s funding Sonia’s holidays, and she feels like people may be putting in extra money - such is the appreciation for her produce.
“We had hard clay at first. It was terrible. We get free mulch from the tip and we have a big trailer. We’ve put down about 150 loads of mulch, and the soil’s improved.” Also enlisted in the soil-improvement effort is a compost bin painted like a pig. “We call her Gloria the compost pig. When she’s full we say ‘it’s time for her to spill her guts.’“
Sonia’s built an impressive food garden in her backyard and achieved something most only dream of by living off it. Her can-do attitude echoes Edmund Hilary and shows the power of starting with what you have, where you are and working bit by bit.
Featured Plants:
WAMPEE - Clausena lansium
LEMONADE TREE - Citrus cv.
BANANA - Musa cv.
PEACH ‘TROPIC BEAUTY’ - Prunus cv.
JABOTICABA - Plinia cauliflora
TAMARILLO - Solanum betaceum cv. *
PEPINO - Solanum muricatum
NASTURTIUM - Tropaeolum majus *
PASSIONFRUIT ‘JAPANESE HARDSHELL’ - Passiflora cv.
BANDICOOT BERRY - Leea indica
EMU BERRY - Grewia latifolia
BIGNAY - Antidesma bunius
WHITE SANDPAPER FIG - Ficus fraseri
CITRUS ‘RED CENTRE LIME’ - Citrus cv.
NATIVE MULBERRY - Pipturus argenteus
* Check before planting: this may be an environmental weed in your area
Filmed on Kabi Kabi Country | Morayfield, Qld
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Garden Composter Bin Made from Recycled Plastic – 110 Gallons (420Liter) Large Compost Bin - Create Fertile Soil with Easy Assembly, Lightweight, Aerating Outdoor Compost Box
Link in bio / linktree (gardening)
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Transitional Kitchen - Kitchen
Huge transitional l-shaped porcelain tile and multicolored floor enclosed kitchen photo with an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, quartz countertops, white backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, two islands and white countertops
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Louisville Transitional Kitchen
Example of a huge transitional l-shaped porcelain tile and multicolored floor enclosed kitchen design with an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, quartz countertops, white backsplash, stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, two islands and white countertops
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the garden i tend at work is getting overrun with snails so i thought about a world where we acquired a domesticated a "working dog" breed of hammerhead worm (they eat snails and slugs and worms) that is also. a puppy. Bred to clear vegetation of common slimy garden pests. click under readmore if u wanna see the worm theyre based off of i think theyre really cute
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Enclosed Louisville
Inspiration for a sizable transitional kitchen remodel featuring an enclosed l-shaped porcelain tile and multicolored floor, an undermount sink, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, quartz countertops, white backsplash, and stone slab backsplash, as well as stainless steel appliances, two islands, and white countertops.
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Monday, May 29, 2023 - National Learn About Composting Day
I can compost anything…
Happy National Learn About Composting Day!
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late night karma assclass doodles. because i sure remembered his existance again
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Rate my compost bin (there's also plastic bags over the surface now)
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Re-using Old Pallets
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October 2022: Spawn Of The Gecko
First warbler of the 2022 Fall migration. It’s a little hard to see but there it is:
Monday’s backyard garden harvest:
Monday’s grilling:
I mentioned in this post about seeing a Mediterranean House Gecko in one of our compost bins back in July but wasn’t able to get a photo & hadn’t seen it since. Well, I was in the bathroom last night & noticed something on the shower curtain. I caught it in a jar. This isn’t the gecko from July. That gecko was an adult & this one is just a kid. Anyway...
Behold! The spawn of the gecko:
I figure it came in since the night time temps have gotten cooler:
I relocated it to one of our compost bins where it will be warm & have plenty of tasty invertebrates to nibble on:
Tuesday’s backyard garden harvest:
First pot of chili 2022:
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Here's a simple compost bin build you can make with wood from a local hardware store, or even DIY it from pallets. It's an extension of the classic 3-bin hot composting system, to add two more bins. This size works well for us at the Epic Homestead due to the size of our garden, and the 5th bin is a great potting soil / finished material storage as well.
IN THIS VIDEO
→ Composting: https://growepic.co/3LLKHHB
→ Felco Gloves: https://growepic.co/3BMgZxJ
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