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Maribyrnong City Council has committed funding to expand the Braybrook Community Garden. The garden will be a safe and inclusive place to grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers, learn new skills and meet people. The garden will be designed and built over the next six months. You are invited to attend community meetings to discuss how the garden should be designed and developed.

There are three dates, and all will be held at Braybrook Community Centre.

Place:
Braybrook Community Centre
107-139 Churchill Ave, Braybrook

Meeting times:
Tuesday 24 January, 2-4pm
Thursday 2 February, 6-8pm
Saturday 11 February, 10.30am-12.30pm

Contact:
Jennifer Witheridge
Growing Food Growing Maribyrnong Coordinator
03 9688 0169
jennifer.witheridge@maribyrnong.vic.gov.au

RSVP:
Tuesday 24 January, 12noon

Although the meetings are open to all, it would be great if people interested professionally could come to the session on Tuesday 24.

Party! Party! Yehar!

To celebrate an amazing year for POW and to get everyone excited for what’s going to be a thrilling year of growth for us all, come along to our end of year party! We’re holding it in the Braybrook Community Garden so you can come see all the great things the Braybrook Sprouts Permaplaygroup have been up to. And of course to make use of the pizza oven!

BYO pizza toppings from your garden, and a salad if you’re able to make one. We’ll also have homemade lemonade and tea from the garden. And all you brewing clubs better bring us all some samples so we can see who’s making the top brew!

Kids bring a small (pre-loved) toy, one per child, wrapped for a sharing swap!

This Saturday, 26th November, 3pm onwards
Braybrook Community Garden
Churchill Avenue
Braybrook
(behind the aeroplane playground)
Google map link

Public transport – 410 bus runs from Footscray to Sunshine and runs down Churchill Ave, but not every time so check before you get on or you can walk the extra four blocks from Ballarat Rd. Ask the driver Or use the journey planner aiming for the Braybrook Shops.
If you get lost call Rayna: 0416 620 221

Lots of love
Permaculture Out West

Open Day on Sunday, 23rd October

The East Keilor Sustainable Community Garden started as a community project in 2004 and will be open to the public this Sunday 23rd October.

Free entry, plant sale and BBQ, garden tour, kids playground, chickens, orchard, seeds.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~eksscg/index.htm

Address: 10a Tuppal Place, Keilor East
Time: 11am to 3pm

On the third Sunday of each month from 3-5pm, Permaculture Out West hosts EmPOWering community drinks at the Dancing Dog Cafe in Footscray.

These regular gatherings are aimed at inspiring and facilitating the building of a resilient, nurturing and empowering community in the west.

Each gathering includes a speaker or activity around a topic, as well as time to share your thoughts and to enjoy a drink with and meet other locals.

Our next gathering will be Sunday 21st August and our theme will be Community Gardens and Edible Landscapes. Come and here members of the Maribyrnong Community Gardens Working Group inspire you with their vision for an edible Maribyrnong and their immediate goal of a pilot garden within the next year.

Everybody welcome!

If you haven’t been to an EmPOWering Community Drinks yet, one of our POW’s aims through this and other projects is to inspire and empower people to turn the West into the place they want it to be. This may be as simple as hosting a regular sewing circle at their home once a month or it could be as big as the project in this video. The point is that 2 people with a vision and the courage to give it a go, transformed their city. How exciting!

Building a Park in the Sky

Our program support residents living in a public housing estate in Footscray. All residents are 55 years and over and living in single units. A community garden ahs been established several years ago and as you’d imagine is a fantastic place for residents to socialise and benefit from going their own produce.

Unfortunately the existing gardeners are finding maintenance of some of the communal areas (e.g. between individual garden boxes) difficult to maintain.

Skills/experience required by volunteers
-Ability to weed, mow & tidy the areas between garden plots.
-Effectively communicate with older residents from culturally & linguistically diverse backgrounds
-Provide gardening advice/ support to new gardeners (optional)
Location
127 Gordon St Footscray
Time commitment
1-2 hours per week / fortnight (flexible)

If you are interested please contact Brett;

Ph: 9362 8156
Email: brettm@wrhc.com.au

Attention: Residents and businesses surrounding the ‘Sinking Village’

Cr Michael Clarke invites you to a User Group Meeting to discuss the future of site at 276 Williamstown Road

Come and have your say on the future uses of the site known as the “Sinking Village”

Light refreshments will be available

To RSVP
Contact Samantha Aitchison,
Community Engagement Officer on 9688 0451 or Samantha.aitchison@maribyrnong.vic.gov.au
prior to Tuesday 10th May 2011

The local community gardens of

East Keilor, Avondale Heights and Strathmore will be sharing a marquee with the ‘My Smart Garden Program’ also nearby will be VEG and the local Rose Creek Winery

- Come say hello.

My Smart Garden

My Smart Garden is a new program to help you produce food, shelter your home, create homes for wildlife and use water wisely. My Smart Garden has something for everyone and is simple, easy and fun. It has been designed so that you can ‘choose your own gardening adventure’. Find out more at http://mysmartgarden.org.au/

The program will be officially launched at the Mediterranean Fiesta this week.

There will be free gardening workshops and giveaways.

The Mediterranean Fiesta is a free festival featuring a great range of musical and dance performances, cooking demonstrations, backyard gardening tips, workshops and kids activities.

When: Sunday 27 March 2011

Time: 11am to 4pm

Where: Centreway Shopping Centre, Centreway, East Keilor

Background: Between October 2009 and 2010, Permaculture Out West petitioned Maribyrnong Council not to sell the old Maidstone Hall at 16 Thomson St, Maidstone and won! Subsequently, Council voted to seek Expressions of Interest to lease the site. POW submitted an Expression of Interest to turn the site into a community market garden and “village well”. Our Expression of Interest can be found at this link: Permaculture Out West EOI 2.

Update: Council met on 15 February this year to consider the proposed lease of Maidstone Hall and resolved as follows:

1. “Endorse the suspension of the Expressions of Interest process to lease Maidstone Hall, 16 Thomson Street, Maidstone, until a suitable site for the relocation for the Footscray Senior Citizens Centre is found”

This means our Expression of Interest is on hold until further notice. Presumably, it also means that Council might decide to relocate the Footscray Senior Citizens Centre to the Maidstone Hall site. If this happens, there should be appropriate processes and opportunity to express your views. However, if you do feel strongly about the possibility of the Senior Citizens Centre being moved to the site, we urge you to express your views to your local Councillor in writing.

POW will keep you updated, but it is unlikely we will hear much until much later this year.

Meeting Details

• The fundraising BBQ – find out how we did at the meeting
• The lease is underway
• Landscaping plans and ideas for free/cheap building supplies

Date: Thursday 10th February
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Location: Avondale Heights Library – meeting room
69-89 Military Road Avondale Heights
Ann ph: 9318 7969