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Today’s tip is about the benefits of growing your own food for the environment from home!

Benefits include:
🌱 Reducing food miles, emissions and food waste (from being damaged during transport and being rejected by Supermarkets due to aesthetics)
🌱 Reducing the use of plastic packaging
🌱 Avoids the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers on our food
🌱 Prevents large areas of bushland being cut down to make way for Agriculture, therefore also protecting our Native Wildlife’s habitat 🐨 🌳

If you don’t want to grow your own food but want to support locally grown produce, let me introduce to you… Community Supported Agriculture!

CSA is a model that connects farmers and consumers; people buy shares in a farms projected harvest in advance and then receive regular deliveries of fresh produce!  🍎

Below is a link to an example of a CSA:
http://harvestfarms.com.au/

How our pets may be influencing the health of our local environment 🐶🐱

We are half way through this challenge,  thank you to everyone who has been posting and sharing their eco tips and behaviours. Here's a quick look at a few of things that will be in the eco bundle....

Reusable items such as this reusable, biodegradable cutlery set, helps reduce our need to buy plastic items and therefore reduce the likelihood of them ending up in our local waterways or oceans.
This item will be included in the Eco-Bundle! 

One of the Eco- Products that come in our Eco-bundle
Trendy Reusable Bag along with many other eco-gifts.
Post a photo or video of you helping your local environment onto our page! 

Love these Reusable Produce Bags to take with you to the supermarket.
Let’s make this the norm in society by choosing to use these rather then single-use plastic bags.
They come in our Eco-Bundle! 

A Stainless Steel Straw is included in our ECO-BUNDLE!
These are a great way to reduce your single-use plastic consumption.

So, for your chance to win, send us a photo of you doing something to help your local environment! 

Any questions, want to get more involved in CHEN? - Send us a message!

Today’s eco-tip to help your local environment is planting Native Plant species in your garden! 

Planting Native Plants in your garden provides food and shelter for native birds, butterflies and lizards as well as help provide a corridor to connect native animal and plant populations.

Additionally, Australia has long, dry summers and we suffer from water restrictions and an unpredictable climate. Australian native plants are more drought tolerant then exotic plant species so they will save you money on watering them as often. They are easy to grow and once having an established native garden are low maintenance.

PLUS native plants are our heritage, so by planting natives, we are helping to preserve them.

So its Day 3 and we are cleaning out our gutters of leaf litter! This helps our local environment and nearby waterways such as the Cattai Creek by reducing the number of nutrients such as Phosphorus and Nitrogen that end up overwhelming our waterways.

Instead of chucking out the leaf litter, I put it in my compost bin, using its nutrients for my garden rather than contributing to algae blooms and aquatic weeds to our waterways.

Today’s Eco-tip is to Clean Your Car on Grass rather then on Paved Surfaces

Washing your car on paved surfaces allows your cleaning detergents to flow into your gutters only to be taken to our local water-ways such as the Cattai creek, contaminating them.

However, when you wash your car on the grass, the water along with the detergents, are soaked into the ground reducing the amount of chemicals and detergents reaching our nearby waterways.