The chemicals use for non-organic vegetable cultivation are not the kind of thing you want to be feeding your family. But what's are the options? Organically grown vegetables are expensive, and you never really know if they are truly organically certified. And isn't growing organic vegetables time consuming? Not according to Jonothan White, Environmental Scientist, Horticulturalist and author of Food for Wealth.

Jonathon's guide to growing organic vegetables will show you how to build and maintain a high yield veggie patch with as little as 8 hours maintenance per year.

Enough dreaming, before you can taste your own succulent home grown honey or even keep your own bees, you need to build your own beehive.

Beekeeping is literally as old as the Egyptians with records of domestic beekeeping going back to around 2500 BC. Beehive design has come a long way since then too with the invention of the moveable comb hive in the 18th century.

Beehive design has continued to improve with innovations continuing in the 20th century. You can even download the best beehive plans and build your own hive.

Designed and built by professional beekeepers, these DIY beehive plans will have you keeping your own honey bees in no time.

Growing enough produce in a small area to feed a family is challenging. Small space gardening, or high density gardening is becoming more and more popular due to the diminishing size of the Australian back yard and increased prices.

There are many techniques you might consider to get the most our of a small garden. Here are just a few:

Companion Planting

Combine vegetables and herbs that offer advantages to one another as they grow. Companion planting offers natural pest control, aids in soil balance and uses space-saving principles.

Inter-Cropping

Planting vegetables that share space well. A popular vegetable combination using this principle is radishes and carrots. Purdue University Extension suggests mixing the seeds together to plant. Radishes grow quickly enough to harvest in three to five weeks, making room for the carrots to mature after your radishes are harvested.

Vertical Gardening

Vertical gardening takes full advantage of space above the ground. Vine type vegetables such as tomatoes, beans, peas, cucumber, squash and pumpkin are all good vertical gardening options. Wall mounted planters can expand the vegetable varieties you can grow including shallow-rooted, non-vine types such as lettuce, spinach, radishes and onions.

Raised Bed and Container Gardening

Use raised beds or container gardens not only to utilize deck and patio space, but to expand your growing season as well. Because the soil warms faster, it offers earlier planting and frost protection. These principles also prevent soil compaction and offer better soil drainage than in ground gardens.

For more information on how you can increase the amount of produce you grow:

Find more visit High Density Gardening

There are lots of changes that can be made in your garden to help save water such as planting natives, using water crystals or even letting your lawn go brown in summer. All of these things are important but the simple act of changing the WAY you water can see you using as much as 60% less water.

By applying water to your plants or lawn underground – at the root zone – water loss though evaporation and run-off is eliminated. Even when compared to a water efficient sprinkler, or surface drip irrigation system, applying water underground is far more efficient.

Systems designed for use on the surface (such as drip irrigation) have been used underground, but with mixed results because they are not designed for this kind of use. Problems with blockage from roots and uneven wetting are common.

Subsurface Textile Irrigation, however, is design specifically for use underground and ensures a wide, uniform wetting pattern, minimal water losses through drainage and protection from root blockages without the use of harsh herbicides.

Water travels evenly along the length of an STI system and is distributed evenly to plants, whereas subsurface drip irrigation which tends to result in a series of disconnected circles of wet soil. Because water is delivered uniformly to the root zone plants are stronger and healthier.

Subsurface Textile Irrigation is used around Australia and throughout the world to irrigate crops, parks and public gardens and is a great solution for Australian backyards. In cities with harsh water restrictions, like Adelaide, STI is a popular solution for keeping a happy healthy yard, while complying with restrictions.

STI is also used extensively to keep sports fields green and ready for play – even when water is scarce. On many fields, like Eaton Hills State School in Queensland, recycled water is used as it can be safely applied at any time using the KISSS Subsurface Textile Irrigation system – even while the field is being played on.

The system is relatively simple to install – even in an existing lawn – and can be fully automated and paired with soil sensors (to turn off our system during rain periods) to provide maximum water savings while nurturing a healthy garden.

Subsurface Textile Irrigation is approved under even the harshest water restrictions – although it’s recommended you check with your local water authority as rules are subject to change.

For more information on Subsurface Textile Irrigation visit www.iwtech.com.au

This easy to follow organic vegetable gardening guide with show you how to grow your own organic vegetables.

Jonathan White, Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist wrote Food4Wealth to help people grow their own organic fruit and vegetables. This book will show you how to:

• Set up a garden that produces many times more than a traditional vegetable garden
• Grow food that you can harvest every single day of the year, no matter where you live
• Grow vegetables and fruit ORGANICALLY
• Grow food in any soil, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
• Grow more food than you need and sell the excess
• Create a garden that regenerates all by itself, year after year

The Food4Wealth Organic Gardening Method

The Food4Wealth guide will help you build a natural habitat that is made up of edible plants - you can create one more easily than you realize. This method of organic gardening is far easier than creating a traditional vegetable garden. No digging, and you won't have to barrow heavy loads.

Once this organic ecosystem is set up you will be able to harvest fresh organic vegetables and fruit every single day. It will literally save you thousands of dollars per year.

Jonathon's guide give you simple instructions on how to quickly and cheaply setup your own sustainable organic garden full of edible fruit and vegetables.

Find Out More About the Food4Wealth Organic Gardening System

There are three kinds of mulch that can can be used effectively on the garden to save water:

Coarse Mulch - such as pebbles, bark, gravel and recycled bricks.

Medium Mulch - wood chips and wood chips

Fine Mulch - saw dust, straw, cow manure and compost.

For more details, check out Save Water - Mulch and compost.

• A wattle Acacia cognata.
• A native grass called Lomandra ‘Seascape’.
• Coastal Rosemary, Westringia fruticosa.
• Dwarf Sacred Japanese Bamboo
• Pelargonium peltatum, the ivy leafed pelargonium.

For the full fact sheet, see Gardening Australia's - Drought Tolerant Plants.