Archive for October, 2009
Grandma Monica’s Eco House Open Day 3rd October in Moonee Ponds
You are invited to Grandma Monica’s Eco-house Open Day!
ECO House and urban permaculture garden Grand Opening on 3rd of October at 10am first tour and 11am second tour. Other tours by appointment (call to arrange a time 9326 0489).
This heritage listed home has been fully retrofitted over the past one and a half years.
This is a good opportunity to see how it is possible to retrofit an historical building. It was a difficult process and I hope this tour will help you to avoid terrible mistakes. CD presentation included (in full tour), documenting the process from start to finish.
All Welcome.
Premises address:
297 Ascot Vale Road Moonee Ponds. Map 28 J 8.
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Parking available in Browning, Chaucer and Montgomery Streets up to 2 h.
Safeway Parking between Gladstone and Young Street Moonee Ponds.
How to get there:
By bicycle or
PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
Train Niddrie line Moonee Ponds Railway Station,
Tram 59 stop 31,
Tram 82 stop 33, stop in front of the house
Bus 472, 404 stop in front of the house,
All the buses going to Moonee Ponds Terminal.
Entry $10 (CD included)
Come to see what you can do to have a green garden full of goodies regardless of water scarcity. How you can purify by organic means and reuse the water from your bathroom to flush the toilet , to do your washing and to irrigate the garden.
To enjoy the hot water for free, to enjoy healthy, chemical free fresh fruit and vegetables from your own garden.
Hope to see you soon.
NYREE’S PLACE IN WEST FOOTSCRAY
Saturday, 31 October 2009, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Viva la spring. Please come and join Nyree and Willie in the West to help transform their small, barren, concrete yard into a scene from “The good life”
We will be building and planting a chicken house and run, raised garden beds and a vertical garden using the wire frames from old bed bases that require stripping. We also need help pulling up the front fence and garden to prepare the soil for a future food forest.
If you’re coming please RSVP for catering purposes to nyreechung@mac.com and bring along your gardening tools i.e shovels, trowels, earth breaking tools, wheelbarrows, forks and rakes.
Location : 9 Exhibition street, West footscray
Contact : Nyreechung@mac.com
10 – 5pm, kids welcome
An Easy Way to Grow Carrots From Madeleine
Since I was young I have always been a keen gardener. Unfortunately the soil where I live is very hard and I have had no success in the past at growing carrots. I needed a way to solve this problem as I spend lots of money throughout the year buying organic carrots. My solution was to get old tyres from my local tyre store (they usually give them away for free or a very small charge) and fill them with soil and compost, and then plant the carrot seeds on top. As the soil has been built up, I now have delicious carrots that are very healthy and big. This year I have tried planting potatoes with great success. The tyres in my garden are a great space and water saver also.
Walk in Werribee Gorge State Park: Saturday 3rd October 2009
Werribee River Association Inc.
and the
Australian Plant Society: Wyndham District
Will combine for a
Walk in the Werribee Gorge State Park
Saturday 3rd October 2009
This is an opportunity for members of both groups, having similar interests, to enjoy one of the geological and environmental wonders of the Werribee River Catchment.
The walk from the carpark is moderate as the track follows the river then rises to follow the remains of a defunct aqueduct which supplied drinking water to Bacchus Marsh until it was disabled by a rockslide.
In the gorge there is a wide range of riparian plants, evidence of glacial activity and wonderful wildlife habitat. From this time of the year Peregrine Falcons nest high on the cliffs above the river.
9.00 am To arrange car pooling, meet in the carpark behind the office block at
22 Princes Hwy, Werribee,
directly opposite the Wyndham Civic Centre.
9.10 am Convoy leaves for Bacchus Marsh via Ballan Rd.
9.50 am Drive down the steep track to the carpark in the Werribee Gorge State Park.
10.00 am Begin walk.
12 noon Return to cars.
Notes for Navigators.
Take the Western Hwy for several kilometres towards Ballarat
The turnoff is clearly marked
Werribee Gorge State Park/ Pentland Hills Rd.
Follow the signs a couple of kilometres down into the park.
Everyone welcome
Urban Agriculture
Dear Member
Please find below the following AILA Vic Communiqué;
Cultivate Event – only 8 days to go, book now!
Topic: Urban Agriculture
Presenters: Dianne Moy, Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab
Adam Grubb, Permablitz
Date: Thursday 1st October
To Book: www.aila.org.au/pay
Details: See attached flyer
Mandy Bromilow
Victorian State Manager
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Level 1, 41 Exhibition St, Melbourne, GPO Box 18025 Collins St East, Melbourne VIC 8003
M 0401 811 976 T 03 9016 0111 F 03 8620 3886
victoria@aila.org.au www.aila.org.au