We're helping everyday urban dwellers connect with their relationship to the planet, by growing food, consciousness and building a resilient tribe along the way.
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Who said you need bulky pots to grow food! Our fabric grow bags are lightweight, flexible and designed to work neatly into your compact space! Be it a sunlit coffee table, or your apartment balcony, Earthli Edible Garden Mini's are made to celebrate the little things while helping our environment.
Pollinators and insects are critical to our environment and our food systems, but they're being pushed out from our cities. Each of our kits have been designed to draw them back in, with each containing at least one flowering plant, as a feast for your eyes, and your friendly pollinators too!
For explorers of culinary delight, and the rest of us who sometimes struggle to put food together too! We've done the hard work for you, and carefully curated a selection of plants that make mixing and matching your fresh, home grown veg as easy as opening the fridge!
Nature is powerful, so why grow against it? Our Kits are designed to attract an ecosystem of biodiversity (nature!!) to grow with it, so that great things can happen organically. We've selected specific plants (companion plants!) that allow you to grow more within a tighter space, and even improve the health of one another. By growing a space beneficial for insects and pollination for more yields, and natural pest control by attracting predators, you're not only making an area more productive, but creating a valuable micro-habitat that will reconnect your home / garden / even balcony! back into the ecosystems of nature around it! Truly epic.
Did you know, plastic and ceramic pots can have a negative effect on plant root health? Have you ever noticed how seedlings from a nursery can have dense, spiraling roots? Each fabric grow pot is breathable, which stops your soil getting waterlogged, lets in more oxygen, leading to increased root growth, increased and faster plant growth, higher yields and no root bound plants!
Compact space? Spare your ankles and furniture - a brush with Earthli grow bag won't do much as give you a tickle. Perfect for tight spots too, where the grow pots can be placed snug to one another and the corner of your balcony —no more wasted corners!
Tired of walking heavy, bulky, items up stairs? Or thinking about moving nest soon? Our fabric grow bags are lightweight, sturdy and designed to last many seasons. Also feature handles for easy moving when your soil is in —neat!
We ship with minimum packaging to keep your items protected, using compostable, recyclable and otherwise reusable (useful!) material - because, really, who needs more packing? It's our way of delivering as much impact, minus the usual fluff that hurts our planet. Our Edible Garden Kit deliveries are also carbon offset to ensure our actions with you can only be carbon positive from here on it! This is all about the details, and while perfection is hard to achieve, we're taking stock to do as much as possible - after all, we're all connected and it all adds up.
It can be daunting when there is a lot going wrong in the world. But did you know there’s a tipping point in the way a community thinks? If only 25% of people in a group change their point of view, and their actions, convincing the rest of the population to change becomes much simpler.
The great news is, we can do this! —while helping ourselves and sharing the perks!
It means that only 1 out of 4 best mates need to be called upon, to help spread awareness, positive action and impact to help our planet!
Even if your friends don't catch on immediately, when positive change is visible, people are still exposed to it. Things can go from the hip alternative to the new normal, faster than we can predict. Remember when single-use plastic shopping bags were a thing? - not that long ago!
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Hi! This is us - Hiranga and Ashini. We are two Melbournian architects. We happen to be husband and wife, and we're the co-founders of Earthli :)
During our careers we've designed city shaping buildings and public infrastructure around the world. We've specialized in sustainable design, however sustainable buildings can only do so much, when the systems which run our cities are, more often than not, destructive to the natural environment. This is why we've been paying close attention to simple actions that could help bring back more circular and ecosystem-like behaviour into our cities.
Ultimately, so that we can live more like nature, more with nature.
And, the fastest way to begin doing all that? Well, it all starts with food, and plants!
We live in a small urban cottage with a teeny tiny back garden that was once just a slab of bare concrete. It used to be uncomfortably hot in summer, and it was so barren that we wouldn't spend time outside in it. That was three years ago. Now it produces a quarter of our fresh produce and serves as a little sanctuary for local wildlife (and us!). During heatwaves the garden has a lovely microclimate and we've been lucky to spend time in our own little oasis during the covid lockdowns. Needless to say, it wasn't easy to get our garden established and thriving - we lead busy lifestyles; we have a small space to work with and imperfect conditions; we were learning as we went, and have killed many plants in the process.
This is why we started Earthli: for people like us: people who live in dense urban areas and suburbs; people with busy lifestyles; people who always wanted to, but weren't confident enough to START GROWING, and people who hate killing plants. So we're working to make it easier than ever, to take the leap, have more successes in the garden; and grow with a tribe from all walks of life- to learn, share and grow together.
Because simple actions, even as small as growing a few plants on a balcony, can bring about positive change to not just your own life, but to the environment and life surrounding you too.
—Hiranga and Ashini from Earthli 🖤
