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Set up a worm farm!

• A worm farm is another great food waste composting system that creates amazing liquid and solid
fertiliser for your home garden. Here’s an infosheet that’ll tell you what you need to know about worm
farms, and a step-by-step guide for how to set one up.

Get some chooks

• You can farm your own eggs or pitch in with neighbours to start a chook co-op.

• To have chooks, you need a fairly big backyard and have to be prepared to build their chook pens, feed
and nurture them and collect their eggs. The good news is the eggs you get from your own chooks are
generally much tastier and healthier, and they increase the resource efficiency of your land while treating
your chickens well.

• SEE-Change has some useful resources about starting a chook co-op in your neighbourhood here.

Join or start your own
community garden

• You can become a member of one of the Canberra Organic Growers’ Society, which has 12 community
gardens situated in Canberra. For $2.40 per square metre, you can rent an allotment at one of the
community gardens and start gardening! There are gardens all through the North and South of Canberra.

• Incredible Edible have a range of great resources about starting your own community garden too.

• You could also look into joining local organisations Canberra City Farm and Canberra Seed Savers.

Go vegan or vegetarian

• Australian Dietary Guidelines say “appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or
vegan diets, are healthy and nutritionally adequate”. 38
• Here’s some advice on going vegetarian for the first time, and another article on doing the same with
veganism.
• To give you some extra motivation, check out the films Cowspiracy (about the environmental impacts of
eating meat and dairy) and Forks Over Knives (about the huge health benefits of a whole-foods plant-
based diet).

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