Posts Tagged ‘workshop’
Money for Jam!
ATTENTION JAM & SAUCE MAKERS – GET PAID FOR SHARING YOUR SKILLS
Money for Jam.
If you think you are a good jam maker, sauce maker, or know how to preserve fruits etc then why not share your skills and be paid for it. The Spotswood Community House (SHC) has a small grant to demonstrate jam making, sauce making, preserving etc. Share your skills in a small group, community setting – no stress – very informal.
OR if you have a friend, sister, nana or grand dad who can do this please contact Madeleine on 0409 712 003 or mellis2@ozemail.com.au
Jam!
POW Christmas Picnic Sunday 19th December
We’d planned to have the POW Christmas Picnic this Sunday, but with all this wonderful rain, Werribee Park Heritage Orchard has flooded.
We’ve moved it to Sunday 19th December….but still to work out where.
Stay tuned for the announcement.
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
Seed saving workshop May 16th
We’ve finally got ourselves organised and POW is running the Seed saving workshop on 16th May.
POW is running a seed saving workshop. Seed saving is about preserving the genetic diversity that evolved over millions of years. Genetic diversity is slowly being lost, due to genetically modified forms of plants and hybridisation. We’re becoming more reliant on multinational companies like Monsanto as the seeds from hybrid or genetically modified plants are sterile or not true to type; this means gardeners and farmers become locked into buying seed each year.
Topics covered: when the seed can be harvested, how to harvest the seed and store it, how long it can be stored.
On the day, you’ll be able to join a new seed savers network for the western suburbs.
Location: Braybrook Community Garden, Skinner Reserve 107-139 Churchill Ave Braybrook.
Seed savers workshop deferred
Due to a mixup with dates, venue and availability, POW won’t be running a seed saving workshop this weekend. We’ll be contacting people who registered for the course with the new date early next week. Of course, we’ll be posting the date here on this website, so you still have the opportunity to enrol.
Apologies for the deferral and any inconvenience it may have caused.
Beekeeping Workshop 28th March
A workshop run by the Honey Co. man. It’s a 1 day workshop from 10.00 to 15.00 with a break for lunch where we can enjoy the lovely food on site at the temple (all included of course).
It covers the basics on bee behaviour, colony structure, how to work a hive, how to manage a hive, what honey is made of, what pollen is for plus dozens of other interesting and amazing facts – swarming impulse etc.
Also giving a talk as part of that course is Chris Strudwick from the EPA, an entomologist and bee keeper who adds a fascinating technical and scientific aspect on the 3 main castes of bees used in Australian bee-keeping. We’ll also aim to actually work the hives (weather permitting) so attendees get hands on experience.
To enrol, just enter your name and email address below.
Cost: TBA but around $90 for the day
Location: Quang Minh Temple 18 Burke St Braybrook VIC 3019
Click here for map.
Preserving the Harvest workshop March 7th
Fruit Skills for a low energy future include preserving the bounty of summer for winter time feasts. Apricot tree laden with fruit? Plums on the tree down the lane? Come along and find out how to preserve the abundance of summer fruits.
The workshop costs $20 per person for POW members and $25 for non POW members, including take home notes and a jar of yummy fruit BYO a freshly laundered apron
Location & Date: 7th March 2010 at 10am Maidstone Community Centre Gibb Street Maidstone
Preserving the Harvest Workshop 7th March
Fruit Skills for a low energy future include preserving the bounty of summer for winter time feasts. Apricot tree laden with fruit? Plums on the tree down the lane? Come along and find out how to preserve the abundance of summer fruits.
The workshop costs $20 per person for POW members and $25 for non POW members, including take home notes and a jar of yummy fruit BYO a freshly laundered apron
Location & Date: 7th March 2010 at 10am Maidstone Community Centre Gibb Street Maidstone
Fruit Budding workshop 21st February
Always wanted a fruit tree but didn’t have the space for a full sized tree? Well, this workshop shows you how to graft or bud a peach tree onto dwarf root stock. This means that you get a fruit tree that is suitable for small spaces. It can be espaliered or grown in a pot. You get to keep the tree!
Fill in the form below to enrol. Cost is free to POW members, and $15 per tree for non-members.
Location: Maidstone Community garden, 21 Yardley St, Maidstone.
Date: Sunday 21/02/10. Starts at 10am.
Fruit tree budding workshop 21st February
Always wanted how to create your own fruit tree using grafting? Then this is the workshop to come along to.
We’ll have our resident orchardist and POW member Richard show how to bud or graft a fruit plant onto rootstock. You get to keep the tree!
Location: Maidstone Community garden, 21 Yardley St, Maidstone.
Date: Sunday 21/02/10. Starts at 10am.
Cost: Free to POW members, $15 for non-members