Adopt a more sustainable lifestyle with the Balmain Glasshouse program
The Balmain Glasshouse is a program that invites people to participate in creating a sustainable lifestyle for themselves through learning about plants and growing their own vegetables to eat. If you're a resident of Balmain property and are interested in seeing this for yourself, now could be the time to take off your work suit, put on some overalls and really hoe into your backyard.
The aim of the program is simple: to educate local Sydneysiders on the benefits that growing your own plants and produce can have. This is done by teaching people how to plant seedlings and care for plants as they continue to grow. Embracing a degree of healthy living and sustainability is becoming an increasing popular move to make across Australia, as more people being to think about their own effect on the environment.
During your time with the Balmain Glasshouse, you'll learn a variety of things about gardening and cleaner, greener living. With both formal and informal techniques of propagation, planting, heritage seeds, organic gardening, natural resources, soil health and many more being taught weekly, this could provide an opportunity for change and adapt your own lifestyle at home.
Promoting community interests and developing an on-going understanding for the continually changing landscape of multi-use and unusual plants, vegetables and flora could help enrich the lives of those living in Sydney's Inner West. Not only this, but arming yourself with the knowledge needed to live off the land could potential end up saving you money in the long run by reducing the amount of food being bought at the grocery store.
Finally, attending local activities such as this allows you to meet other people with similar interests in your community. This could be a great way to get to know your neighbourhood and develop some real community ties with others living near you. Members of the Balmain Glasshouse meet every Tuesday evening from 6:30 p​.m. next to the Balmain Library and Town Hall. Take yourself down and embrace the cleaner, greener lifestyle offered by the program and change your habits today.
