Archive for the ‘Community gardens’ Category
Strathmore Community Garden
The Strathmore Heights Community Garden group had a very successful inaugural meeting with support from both the Moonee Valley council and the local Rotary club.
They are in the process of selecting a site for the community garden. There is some land next to the car park at Boeing Reserve which looks suitable.
For more information contact
Email: strathmorecommunitygarden@gmail.com
International Gardening Projects
Check out the stories in these inspiring links
Braybrook – Sproutfest 2010
Braybrook Sprouts PermaPlayGroup
Come celebrate our fantastic first year and see what’s been happening in the Braybrook Community Garden
*Music
*Entertainment
*Locally grown food
*Workshops
Date: 13 December
Time: 10:00 – 13:00
Location 107-139 Churchill Avenue, Braybrook
Permablitz in Werribee this Saturday!
School Kitchen Garden Blitz, Werribee
Saturday, 27 November 2010, 10:00am - 04:00pm
We Need Your Help!
We are a Kitchen Garden Program at Thomas Chirnside Primary School in Werribee. We have spent most of this year building and preparing the area for a productive yield all year round, so we can learn about growing food, self sufficiency, health and cooking. We have come as the summer holidays approach (we want our garden to be set up to handle the hot and dry weather. So we are calling on anyone with a passion for food, the environment, education, permaculture or all of the above to come and spend a day with us in the sun, helping prepare the garden for the year ahead.
The Activities (at this stage) for the day are going to be:
• Building a bathtub worm farm
• Composting
• Setting up an irrigation system
• Building an arbour (climbing frames for vines)
There are many incidental lessons and rewards gained from coming to a permablitz’. It’s always an
inspiring and fun day. And…
YOU WILL BE SERVED A GOURMET LUNCH!
EMAIL ME TO HITCH A RIDE/OR OFFER CAR POOL
RSVP to hollyvkirby@gmail.com
When? SAT NOV 27 from 10am
Where? TCPS 85 Walls Rd Werribee.
Community Garden – Strathmore
A new community garden in Strathmore, city of Moonee Valley.
Come along to the public meeting to establish a community garden in Strathmore.
Date: 27th Nov.
Time: 9.30am to 11.30 am.
Address: Boeing Reserve Hall,
Boeing Road, Strathmore Heights.
Hall is Adjacent to the car park.
South Melbourne Commons – News
South Melbourne Commons is coming to life. With the upstairs classrooms cleaned, painted, floored and finally finished; our kids parties have begun and we are moving the site office upstairs into real offices in a matter of days!
Our salad garden is loving all of this rain and is producing huge amounts of delicious greens for our volunteers lunches. Check out the latest photos of finished rooms & gardens
http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=rf/smc_update#sept2010
We will be launching an exciting new twist on the traditional markets in November at the Commons. Every Friday is now Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day – Coming soon every Friday
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With a commitment to low environmental impact, high quality goods, we are looking for a small number of stallholders to join us. We are seeking artists and retailers of fashion, beauty, baby care and health; who meet our environmental standards to come and sell their wares. Please get in touch with Meg; meg.ivory@foe.org.au 0416 469 144 if you are interested in holding a stall or running a workshop.
Sustainable Food Festival – 11th & 12th December
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We are planning for a Sustainable Food Festival the 11th and 12th of December so we would love to hear from you if you or someone you know would be interested in having a stall. We are also looking for performers for the 2 days so get in touch if your band would like to participate.
Contact Tully tully.mcintyre@foe.org.au 0410 388 187.
Garden blitz days
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Planning has begun on building & planting our next lot of garden beds. If you want to be involved contact ecomarket.melbourne@foe.org.au or call Martin 0403 440 996.
Permaculture at Docklands
The Age 11 June
http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-life/green-thumbs-and-highrise-ambitions-20100610-y0hx.html
STROLL along North Wharf in Docklands, among the towering apartment blocks, and at the end of the wharf you’ll come across the precinct’s best kept secret. In the midst of the concrete surrounds, near the far end of the wharf, an oasis of greenery has been created, an open garden with a profusion of ready-to-pick herbs, vegetables, and flowers. It is a community garden, the first to be introduced to Docklands….. The community garden was established as a trial after Monash University student Emily Ballantyne-Brodie approached Docklands’ developers Vic Urban and Lend Lease with a proposal. They gave the space, while the Environment Protection Agency funded the plants and garden supplies.
”Our ecological footprint per person in Australia is 50 per cent based around food, the water used in production and the travel involved in getting it to the city,” Ballantyne-Brodie says. Her concept is for the creation of a community hub, eventually on a permanent site, that will combine sustainability ventures. It already includes an eco-shop selling garden supplies in nearby Merchant Street, where classes are run on establishing balcony and rooftop gardens, harvesting grey water and rainwater, organic gardening and permaculture design, and sustainable cooking.
Ballantyne-Brodie, 26, is studying for a master’s degree in environment and sustainability. She spent two years researching the idea of urban agriculture and community design at Italy’s Politecnico Di Milano.
Her passion for the project derives from her experience growing up at Upper Beaconsfield ”with a vegie patch and chickens”. The community garden has proved an enormous success with residents of Docklands, she says. She has been helped by a team of volunteers, including landscapers.
State of Design Festival Day in Violet Town next Saturday 24th
Violet Town plaque
State of Design Festival at Violet Town Saturday 24th July 11am – 4pm*
Join us and see what is happening design wise in a small country town.
For less than the cost of the local produce in your lunch, come along and learn more about the changes underway through a walking tour of retrofitted community buildings, solar houses, creek revegetation, community forest and Murrong permaculture development.
Stops along the walking tour include:
The energy efficiency retrofit of a 1970s Community Complex and the Early Childhood Centre in Violet Town demonstrates a great range of appropriate strategies to improve the way this building works.
HREP is a community powered restoration and design project for the Honeysuckle Creek and environs.
The Violet Town Community Forest, planted in 2006, is designed as an example of analogue forestry, to mimic the structure and functions of natural forest, while giving amenity, habitat, and future wood product yields.
Murrnong is designed as a permaculture community subdivision, with an established tree crop agriculture to provide for residents and local community.
Timing suits V-Line timetable from Melbourne.
Cost $10 adult – $5 child (under 16) Lunch included.
Pre-register by phoning 5798 1735 or email rplandvogt@gmail.com
LOCATION: Community Complex, Cowslip Street, Violet Town
CONTACT NAME: Rob Landvogt PHONE: 5798 1735
EMAIL: rplandvogt@gmail.com
WEB: www.violettown.org.au
http://vtecoliving.blogspot.com
GRAFTING DAY
Werribee Park Heritage Orchard is holding a grafting day this Saturday, 17th July from 10am to 2pm.
Enter at gate 2, (the main gate) then follow signs down to grafting shed.
- Watch grafting demonstrations by Pete the Permie and others.
- There will be tours of the orchard
- Dress appropriately, sturdy shoes etc.
- Bring lunch and drinks, there is hot water on-site.
For further information, contact Richard Hawkey: 0428 329 450
To see a map, click here
For more information about Werribbee Park Heritage Orchard or to subscribe to the WPHO newsletter, visit http://www.my-book-cafe.com/newsletter.html
MAIDSTONE COMMUNITY HALL DECISION THIS TUESDAY
We have finally received official notification that Council will be voting on what to do with the Maidstone Community Hall this Tuesday 20th July. The meeting is open to the public and it would be good to have strong showing of POW supporters. It starts at 7pm. The Agenda for the meeting, including the Officer’s Report and Recommendation for the site will be available at www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au from Friday 16th July. Please click on a link below to see the official letter from Council. Thank you.
