Date Sunday 12 February 2012
Time 10am until 2pm
Where Werribee Park Heritage Orchard

Come along to Werribee Park to see how to propagate your own stone fruit trees or add another variety to an existing tree to extend the fruiting season.

Purchase newly budded trees, or scion wood separately

The orchard is on facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/wph.orchard/

Website http://www.werribeeparkheritageorchard.org.au/

Have a look at this article about budding techniques http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/propagation/budding/budding.html

Local Harvest will be a website resource for finding good food close to you, connecting with growers, and exploring alternatives for food production in an urban setting. It includes:

•A national directory for finding food co-ops, food swap meets, community gardens, farmers markets, box systems, pick-you-own farms, farm-gate products, organic retailers, seed saver networks, free-range meats, and more. You can find local food by simply placing in a postcode.

•promotion and exploration of do-it-yourself alternatives for food production and meeting essential needs, including resources for growing your own food, making your own produce, storing and preserving, and low energy living.

The project will be launched at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival in February 2012.
Find out more about why this project is important at www.localharvest.org.au

Are you a South Kingsville gardener or know someone who is?

Transition Hobsons Bay want to connect gardeners, and their compost bins, to local cafes, and their food scraps. A nearly unlimited resource! We’ve lined up a cafe in South Kingsville already, so now we’re looking for local gardeners to be part of an organised roster…

Email transtionhb@gmail.com for more information or pass this message on to someone you know in the area.

http://shareable.net/blog/gen-y-guide-to-collaborative-consumption

Bring your surplus home grown fruit, vegies, herbs, food/plant seeds, seedlings, eggs, honey, jams & preserves and swap your produce with other local home producers!

Sunday 3rd July, 2011

1–2pm @ Eddie O’Toole Park

Main St Bacchus Marsh,

opposite Information Centre

For more information, updates and reminders about future

events e-mail  bmproduceswap@gmail.com

Find us on Facebook: “Bacchus Marsh Produce Swap”

First Saturday of each month – the Spotswood Farmers Market is just next door.

9.30 am to 10.30 am. 5 March – 2 April – 7 May – 4 June

Find us at the Spotswood Community House, cnr Melbourne Rd & McLister St, Spotswood.

Melways ref 41 J12.. (Next to the Spotswood Primary School).

Contact Madeleine on 0409 712 003 or Julie on 9391 2613.

Email coordinator@spotswood.com.au

An initiative of The Spotswood Community House & Newport Organic Collective Inc

WORKSHOP – THE ART OF MAKING A GREAT SUGO & GNOCCHI

Learn to make the mother of all tomato sauces – Sugo – with LouLou. LouLou has channelled generations of Nonna’s to perfect this super intense recipe. She will also demonstrate how to make Nonna’s home made gnocchi using a foolproof recipe.

It’s a small group, hands on, and everyone will get a jar of freshly made ORGANIC sugo to take home. We finish off with a bowl of freshly made gnocchi smothered in fresh, rich sugo, parsley and parmesan cheese. It doesn’t get any better.

COMPULSORY BOOKING FEE $20 Full refund with 48 hours notice.

DATE Saturday March 5, 10 am to 1 pm, includes light lunch.

VENUE Spotswood Community House,
Cnr Melbourne Rd & McLister Ave

BOOKINGS Contact Julie on 9391 2613 or email
coordinator@spotswood.com.au

An initiative of the Newport Organic Collective Inc & Spotswood Community House

10-11.30am (first saturday of every month)

Rotunda, Pilgrim St park (Bristow reserve) Seddon (see attached map thanks to Rob)

 

1) last month we learnt about the edible weed perselane which contains more omega-3 fatty acids than another other plant and is delish in salad …

2) some local cafes now have a Ground-to-ground sticker on there coffee machine. Ask them to take home their coffee grinds for your garden/compost. Plump, Feedback, Corner store…stay tuned

3) 12th of March is a Melbourne community swap meet at Fed square 11am – check it out

4) LOOKING for someone else to help host the urban swap meet … all you need to do is meet and greet people!

5) am thinking of making a western urban harvest flag/banner. is anyone interested in sewing a triangle with a letter on it? of bright, colourful, fruity flare

6) did I hear somebody mention figs?! oh boy

 

Whatever you’ve got to share – everyone and anything is welcome -

 

plums, figs, zucchinis, green yellow and red tomatoes, rocket, rhubarb, lemons & limes, eggs, honey, manure, coffee grinds, preserves, jam, homemade sourdough bread or biscuits, companion plants, seeds & seedlings, worm juice, herbs (think small bunches or root stock) and fruit and veg of course! and maybe a thermos of tea!

 

Hope to see you and your little urban harvest swappers for some community bonding and a great chat!

 

neesh

Where to find us

 

* Free nitrogen boost for your compost!
** Making use of an abundant local resource!
*** Diversion of landfill, so curbing methane gas pollution!

Transition Hobsons Bay has been asking cafes to participate in the Ground to Ground program. Since we started in Williamstown & Yarraville, the earliest adopters have been:
• Feedback Cafe & The Corner Store in Yarraville
• The Picnic Table & Novel Kitchen in Williamstown

A google map of participating cafes (including some in the eastern suburbs) is available at groundtoground.org or Ground to Ground Map

Get along to one of these cafes and support their efforts to divert coffee grounds from landfill*!
Most likely if a cafe doesn’t have a magnet up, its because they don’t know about the program…
So ask Transition Hobsons Bay for a Ground to Ground magnet for YOUR favourite local cafe. (transitionhb@gmail.com)

* We suggest picking it up in a bucket.

Transition Hobsons Bay wants to develop a community composting scheme along the lines of Glenda Lindsay’s fabulous Compost Mates. Neighbours organise a roster to pick up all food scraps from a local cafe. Individuals compost at home. Ground to Ground is envisaged to be the first stage of this scheme that all cafes and everyone can participate in.

Cheers to the Cappucino

Surplus resources are shared. Swapping the unusual, such as loqats, cape gooseberries, unusual salad greens and even ferments, builds knowledge. Gardening know-how is swapped. And everyone makes new connections in their community. All that sharing!

The Newport swap has taken off so fast. No doubt the established Western Urban Harvest swap helps. But mostly it’s people new to these swaps. Can you imagine one in every suburb? One every weekend?

Help to Start a new fruit and Vege Swap Up

Transition Hobsons Bay wants to help people set up a swap in their local area. If you are interested then get in touch! It doesn’t take much organising, but its worked well for us to have 4 organisers to share responsibilities. If you don’t already know other people who would be up for it, then we’ll try and play match-maker.

Contact: Find us on facebook, or send us an email to join the swap mailing list – transitionhb@gmail.com

The Newport homegrown fruit & veggie swap is on the
Date: third Sunday of each month
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: Newport Lakes
Details: Rowena 0405 763 909, or email transitionhb@gmail.com