A community at work
March 10th, 2009 — events, food + gardens
Zucchini growers, show us your wares. Apply the fertilizer now, fend off competitors, keep the slugs at bay…. for there is to be a giant zucchini competition at the fair.
Town councillor and community member Philip Cocker will be there with his scales and measuring tape.
(Photo is a modest example, but rest easy – Chris is not growing zucchini this year.)
March 9th, 2009 — community organising, events
Here is Harvest Fair poster.
Click HERE to download A4 version.
This is going to be letterboxed.
Thanks to Julia Garry for design.
Email Amanda @ 144 if you wish to help with letterboxing.
March 1st, 2009 — food + gardens
3 – 4.30 pm
14th March
131 Waterworks – up the little side road
Feel free to bring a plate
All welcome
Jonah is going to show us how to dig large (-ish) areas of ground; we have an area up the back, about to be netted in, where two beds are planned. He suggests that we all bring shovels and take a turn: dig the host’s garden, a trick we can perhaps repeat elsewhere!
Then we thought we’d move on to worm farms and…
March 1st, 2009 — energy saving, events
Good news. If you liked the Jan Gehl lecture you will like this one too!
Internationally acclaimed expert on sustainable cities, Peter Newman, will be giving a free public lecture and launching his new book, ‘Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change’.
Australia’s leading voice on sustainable transport, Peter is best known for his work in reinvigorating Perth’s public transport system. He invented the term ‘automobile dependence’ and for 30 years has been warning about the need to prepare for peak oil. Peter’s other book, ‘Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence’, was launched in the White House in 1999.
5.15 – 6.45 pm
Thursday 19th March
Dechaineaux Theatre, School of Visual Arts,
Hunter Street