Charley’s Home 2024

Charley’s Home

Come and visit Charley’s home and gardens; we have the following house features for discussion:

• Solar panels provide low-cost electricity
• LED/energy efficient lights replacing conventional globes
• Roof insulation making the home more efficient
• Re-glazed and draught-proofed sash windows provide enhanced insulation
• Water tanks provide for all water requirements throughout the house, including drinking water
• Grey water filtration bed capturing shower water

In the garden:

• A greywater filtration system feeds the garden beds
• Water features helps increase the frog population (and reduce slugs further) and log piles, drilled logs and other habitats increase local wildlife.
• Recycled timber from railway bridges and sleepers is used for the deck and raised garden beds
• Worm farms compost all vegetable waste from the kitchen
• Zero-artificial-inputs garden
• Ducks for pest control and manure for fertiliser
• Deep mulch for water retention
• 9 native bee hives
• Raised vegetable beds
• Fruit trees – apples, apricots, mango, sharen fruit, lemons, oranges, limes, bananas
• Berry canes