There’s a real community of veggie gardening/sustainablity bloggers in Australia. I love reading about Ali‘s exploits, Barbara‘s gorgeous children, Liz‘s amazing cooking, Mrs Bok‘s flock, Veggiegobbler‘s monkeymen and Hazel‘s tree change adventures (amongst many others). But after reading about blogger meet-ups in Melbourne I’ve been feeling pretty lonely around here.
Where are the garden bloggers in Sydney?
*Crickets*
So I’ve been searching, and I’ve found some!
My recent discoveries are:
The Green Backyard – Another mum (like me), attempting to live a more sustainable lifestyle in North-West Sydney
Edible Urban Garden – Lani is achieving simply amazing things on only 280m2 in the Inner West
Under the Choko Tree – Nev and Linda living the permaculture dream in Western Sydney – I’ve visited them!
And in the Hunter Region:
Purple Pear Organics – Kate and Mark are simply amazing, and so generous in sharing their knowledge
Merewether Life – Bwendo has a beautiful family, and shares my passion for chickens and veggies
Have I missed anyone?
500m2 in Sydney 
So all you have to do now is organise a Sydney bloggers’ get together! Thanks for the link.
That’d be me – I try to be as sustainable as possible but my forays into permaculture/organic gardening have been hit and miss.
Hi Lilian! I’ll have to check out your blog 🙂
I’d like to find some more Adelaide garden bloggers. Where are they
all?!
That is a very good question! I’m not sure I’ve ever come across one. Sophie from Gardening Australia should start one 🙂
I know a few:
http://adelaidegardeners.blogspot.com/
http://kebunmalaykadazangirls.blogspot.com/ (stunning veggies)
http://heartsdesigns.blogspot.com/ (on holidays in Asia at present)
http://eagoodlife.blogspot.com/ (geese, and lovely writing)
http://enchantedthingsprimitives.blogspot.com/ (great garden, nostalgia – S is a bit sad at the moment, but gorgeous!)
I am sure there are more, but not bad for a start!
Yay! for some Sydney bloggers. A meet up would be fantastic!! I’m there.
Lilian, I’ll be checking out your blog too!
L, if you organise a Sydney meet up like those Melbourne ladies did, I’m going on strike. Stop having fun without me people!!!
Oh Ali, I know your frustration. I was insanely jealous reading of the Melbourne meetup.
We could won the lotto and have a national meeting on a beautiful island somewhere with it’s own sustainable garden!
Mrs Bok, you had me at ‘beautiful island’…
Mrs Bok IS a beautiful island in Bloggland!
Thanks for the link – that was very nice…if only my cooking was always amazing – I made a fairly hideous attempt at fried rice last week and followed it up with some really mediorce dhal only yesterday…..
Dunno if you want to count people slightly down the coast in the Illawarra, but there’s me:
http://www.green-change.com
And a few others:
http://www.innerpickle.com.au/
http://justlikemynanmade.blogspot.com/
http://www.estategardening.com.au/blog/
Of course Darren! Thanks for the heads up – I’ll check out your blog (and the others too).
I guess all the Sydney gardeners are concentrating more on gardening than blogging. I have been told that the cottage gardeners meet up quite frequently (and they don’t just do cottage gardens), and I know the western sydney permaculture group meets up once a month.
Seen this?
http://www.gardenclubs.org.au/minigen/default.asp?action=showContent&contentID=18
I’ve been tempted to contact Permaculture Sydney North, but I’m worried that I don’t really have time for a ‘club’. That and I’m worried that I won’t fit into the ‘permaculture culture’. Silly, huh?
Thanks for including me on the list. The other inner-west one (and a great blog) is Jamie at Garden Amateur http://gardenamateur.blogspot.com/
I do agree – so many Melbourne-ites are active bloggers and not so many Sydney – but thanks for the new list!!
Thanks Lani – I did check out gardenamateur, but he has been focussed on his travels lately, and I didn’t really know where to start in the archives. I look forward to reading when he gets back.
Here is mine. http://gardenglut.blogspot.com It’s very new. Have a look, add to ideas for glut recipes and help me with my pleas for padron seeds and finger limes. Keep gardening. Gardenglut
Not strictly a gardening blog, mine (The Good, the Bad and the Italian) will feature the occasional post about my new-found love of gardening. Soon I’ll write about home-made marmalade from my own mandarins, and this post from a few weeks ago was about my radicchio patch (with some other musings thrown in). http://ambradambra.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/the-secret-radicchio-society/
thanks
Ambra Sancin
I’ve been asking the same question! It feels like everyone I speak to about my veggie fixation says the same thing. ” I really want to grow my own food” but none of them do! Am I alone in tilling the soil?
Thanks for visiting Kevin. I’ve been trying to encourage people around me, and it seems like I’m having some success in my neighborhood. Try growing something in the front yard – that’ll get people talking!
Thanks for your mention, we are still here, and going as strong as ever… Talk soon
Great list, I am looking forward to exploring those Blogs more. Here’s another to add to to the list, Gardens and Polka Dots (www.gardensandpolkadots.com)