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Foodcube is transforming cities into urban farms. Our modular water efficient wicking beds are easy to install, low maintenance and make gardening easy.
Here's what to do if your basil is going to flower before your tomatoes are ready and ruining your plans of growing your own pasta sauce, or summer salads. That's the dream, right?
Basil is best pruned to the leaf axil, or where the stem meets two alternate leaves, that will give you a nice busier basil plant and hopefully keep it going a little bit longer so that the tomatoes have a bit more time on the vine to ripen to their full tastiness!
Hope this helps someone out there growing their veggies!!
10/01/2026
Did you know that you can harvest your own honey from native stingless bees? These bees collect pollen from native plants - the wax around the hive entry to this one smelled of Eucalyptus, very reminiscent of the classic Aussie bush scent!
If you're interested in understanding more about Australia's native bees, its important to remember that we have more than 2,000 species with many different kind of nesting and social behaviours. Some are solitary, some are social, and some are semi-social.
There are only a few that have social nesting behaviour and make social beehives in locations that are warm enough to produce extra honey to harvest for us to enjoy, too - and they aren't suited to all climate locations over Australia.
Here's a few notes and resources to read up on to understand if a stingless native beehive is right for you!
If not, consider another hive type to support these awesome pollinators - as some solitary bees (like the blue banded bee) perform buzz pollination that is incredibly effective for your eggplants and tomatoes!
If you are looking for a workshop, I recommend following .aus or your other local bee experts! or get your kids involved in understanding Victorian native grasslands with the book
Here's the only thing to do when you find a spider in your Foodcube vent...
What a buzz to see urban agriculture take off in schools, Brian Daniells the assistant principle is using Foodcubes to teach kids about growing plants, food and vegetables and letting them take charge of their own learning outside of the classroom!
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Transforming cities into urban farms
We are on a mission to transform under-utilised city spaces into productive and luscious urban farms. Urban agriculture has an enormous potential to address many of the toughest challenges that we are facing in the world today: a changing climate, food insecurity, social disconnectedness and rising mental health issues. A bounty of scientific evidence is pointing at urban agriculture as a viable solution to all of these problems.
Not only that, kids today a growing up in a world where most the food they eat comes from supermarkets and is wrapped in plastic packaging. We want to reconnect young people to where food actually comes from and demonstrate that growing food is fun, easy and immensely satisfying.
To do all this we have developed modular, self-watering wicking garden beds which require small amounts of time to maintain and require only a fraction of the water used in conventional gardening to keep healthy. They are perfect for growing lots of food in small urban spaces and have been designed to maximise user engagement and satisfaction.
We work with individuals and communities to install our wicking garden beds in schools, workplaces, rooftops, backyards and anywhere else where food will grow. We provide hands on training with our wicking garden beds and continually impart expert advice on all things urban agriculture related.
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