Yes, dear reader, the time has come. Everything in life has a beginning and an ending, and I believe that it’s time to wrap up The Greening of Gavin blog and podcast. All good things come to an end (to quote a very famous Star Trek series)! A

TGoG 132 – A House or a Home

Apr 13th, 2016 19m 35s

Is your place a house or a home? Kim and I have some thoughts on the subject in today’s podcast episode. Welcome back. Sorry for the hiatus, but we’ve been working and launched a big project over the last 3 months, which we’ll talk about in n

TGoG 131 – Christmas Special 2015

Dec 23rd, 2015 55m 24s

Yay! It’s our Christmas Special 2015 podcast episode. Whether you celebrate or not, please take the time to join us recapping the events of 2015 and sharing not one, but two songs during the episode! It’s been a very busy year now that Kim an

TGoG 130 – Budget Gifts

Nov 26th, 2015 32m 3s

Kim came up with a brilliant theme for this episode that will get you all fired up to start making budget gifts to give during the Christmas season. We all know that this time of year can be expensive if others expectations are high, so cut yo

TGoG 129 – Downshifting Again

Oct 21st, 2015 16m 45s

Downshift (ˈdaʊnʃɪft) verb – change a financially rewarding but stressful career or lifestyle for a less pressured and less highly paid but more fulfilling one. Yes folks, after another sorrowful wakeup call, I have decided to downshift another

TGoG 128 – Major Events Around the Yard

Oct 8th, 2015 17m 56s

Some major events around the place this week so this week’s episode is a bit of a round-up. We had to remove the greenhouse due to catastrophic failure of the polycarbonate sheeting. Its being replaced with a storage shed for soap making suppl

TGoG 127 – Not Keeping Up With the Jones’s

Sep 30th, 2015 43m 24s

Today is International Podcast Day so in the spirit of the day, Kim and I co-hosted an episode about something that we are quite proud of. Proud of not keeping up with the Jones’s, especially when it comes to our home, furnishings, and garden.

TGoG 126 – Why We’re Passionate about Little Green Workshops

Sep 23rd, 2015 20m 51s

Today I had a revelation. I realised that if Kim hadn’t gone along with me at the beginning of my green epiphany, we wouldn’t have started our sustainable living journey nor started our small green business, Little Green Workshops! And you kno

TGoG 125 – 22 Things You Should Start Adding to Your Compost Bin

Sep 16th, 2015 18m 17s

This show is all about the 22 things you should start adding to your compost bin. If you don’t have a compost bin, I highly recommend you source one, because there are many used household items that you can add to it that gives back nutrients t

TGoG 124 – Sustainable Living with Emma Sutcliffe

Aug 26th, 2015 21m 3s

Today I am inviting you into our dining room or inner sanctum if you like, for a candid lunch-time chat with me, Kim, and Emma Sutcliffe. There’s nothing quite like having lunch with like minded-people and chatting about sustainable living. N

TGoG 123 – Solar Talk with Emma Sutcliffe

Aug 19th, 2015 21m 16s

Recently, I was interviewed by Emma Sutcliffe about my small solar power system that I built myself. You can read about it in this post titled To Grid or Go Off Grid. Why Not Do Both? We conducted the interview just before a delicious lunch t

TGoG 122 – Old Fashioned Living with Michelle Snape

Aug 12th, 2015 42m 57s

There are many ways to describe how many of us live, but one that resonates strongly with me is old-fashioned living. Living in a simple and hard-working manner like our grandparents did to maintain a peaceful and joyous life. Its the simple

TGoG 121 – Influencing Your Partner with Amy Webber

Aug 5th, 2015 30m 23s

What can you do if your partner is resistant to your green lifestyle? How do you convince them that it is in their best interest financially and good for the environment. Well today we explore the topic of influencing your partner with my spec

TGoG 120 – Urban Gardening with Sue St Jean

Jul 29th, 2015 1h 1m

Growing food in a small space is often challenging, but Sue St. Jean has taken on that challenge head on. She ripped up her lawn in back and front of her 5000 ft² (464 m²) Rhode Island home, and began planting edibles to feed her family. She t

TGoG 119 – Household Sustainability Index with Jennifer Richards

Jul 22nd, 2015 52m 50s

Have you ever wanted to measure how sustainable your home is? I have often wondered if there was a means to do this beyond the basic environmental footprint. Well, it just so happens that Jennifer Richards has developed a method of measurement

TGoG 118 – Plastic Free Living with Lindsay Miles

Jul 15th, 2015 46m 7s

All that plastic getting you down? Want to live a plastic free lifestyle? Well I have a treat for you! On the show today I’m joined by Lindsay Miles who is the author of the popular blog Treading My Own Path. After watching the documentary Bag

TGoG 117 – Getting Out of Debt

Jul 9th, 2015 26m 28s

I’ve often said that Debt equals Slavery in another form. Given the current economic climate, I think that this episode is well-timed. The stock market is trembling, Greece is on the ropes, and we have been warned of a housing bubble here in

TGoG 116 – What’s Working What’s Not

Jul 2nd, 2015 40m 15s

Kim joins me on the show this week and during this episode we delve into what is working in our sustainable lifestyle and what is not. We cover such topics as non laying chickens and short showers on a cold morning, to going on holidays using G

TGoG 115 – Bek’s Backyard with Bek Stiegler

Jun 24th, 2015 34m 34s

Bek Stiegler went pretty much went from the average consumer (supermarket shopping, buying stuff she didn’t need, buying the cheapest and not caring where it came from etc) to growing pretty much all her own food (except meat and dairy), reusin

TGoG 114 – Sustainable Living with Gürkan Yeniçeri

Jun 16th, 2015 34m 59s

This week we catch up with Gürkan Yeniçeri, a fellow sustainable living practitioner who lives in Canberra, ACT. For those of you who listen to the Little Green Cheese podcast, you would have heard his cheese making story during episode LGC 04

TGoG 113 – Plastic Free July with Erin Rhoads

Jun 10th, 2015 32m 57s

Erin is the author of The Rogue Ginger a blog dedicated to sharing her plastic free and zero waste lifestyle. During this episode and via her blog she shares plastic free alternatives to shopping, cooking, makeup, fashion, cleaning and travel w

TGoG 112 – Megan goes Veggie

Jun 3rd, 2015 22m 43s

In the studio this week I have a chat with my daughter Megan. This is her first time on the show, and we discuss in-depth on why and how she now lives a vegetarian lifestyle. It is amazing that she only embraced vegetarianism a year ago and it

TGoG 111 – Sarhn McArthur-Gumbley Revisited

May 27th, 2015 36m 18s

Catching up with friends made via this community is always a treat. Sarhn McArthur-Gumbley is one of those many friends that I have made over the years via this podcast and blog but never met. Sarhn’s first visit to the show was way back in ep

TGoG 110 – Lucy House: Dawson Valley Free Range

May 20th, 2015 36m 21s

Knowing where our meat comes from very important to Kim and me. We want to ensure that any meat we consume has had the best possible life and has only one bad day. Ethically raised and not factory farmed. Imagine my delight when I was contact

TGoG 109 – Kim’s Journey

May 13th, 2015 36m 31s

You’ve heard me talk many times about my sustainable living journey, but what about Kim? After all, she has been right by my side for the entire trip, so what does she really think about it so far, and how does she think she has changed along t