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7.30 pm
Tuesday
3rd February
at 46 Waterworks Rd
(Michelle and Jonah’s)

Trish Moran has kindly offerred to connect happy gardeners in the valley, so we can share ideas, produce and equipment and learn more techniques and do interesting things.

If you would like to keep in touch with this group, then please do get on the email list for it – contact Trish directly or go to ‘comments’ below.

Click ‘continue reading’ for the ideas we came up with at our first meeting:

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On Tuesday 4th Nov community members met and made following agreements:

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You can download Hobart Council’s new plan for the Quarry by clicking HERE.

And you can make a submission by clicking HERE.

Deadline for comment is October 10.

If we had the energy and commitment we could really do something in this valley. Click HERE and HERE to see information about the Green Precincts program.

The sort of plan that could be funded by this $500,000 program could entail complete solarisation of all the street households, a construction of a demonstration home / education centre for sustainable living and much more.

So… what do you think?

Chris at 195

Waterworks community has been well represented (myself, Dorka and Horst, Glenda and Phil, Chris, Steff and Vica) in working bees at Princes Street Primary School vegetable garden.

Rebecca Boyle plus and other parents have been keen to introduce a culture of environmental awareness in the school and have started a small vegetable garden, worm farm and composting heap near the kindergarten and child care centre – and more recently some beds for fruit trees and vines.

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ABC Radio National is holding a My Street competition to unearth some great stories about Australian communities as part of its Street Stories program.

People throughout Australia are being invited to tell the tale of their street using video, audio, images and/or text. The story can be recorded on a mobile phone, an MP3 player, a video or digital camera, or it could be a written description or a series of photos with captions.

Entries will be uploaded onto the Radio National website and the producer of the best story will have the opportunity to work with a producer to record and edit a radio story about their street.

Entries close on November 7 – click HERE to find out more.

Is there a creative person out there who would like to put something together? If so, please leave a comment below or email us HERE.

Thanks heaps to all those that came last Sunday to help with the landcare work at Michelle and Tom's. A lovely morning.

If you want to connect with landcare activities in the valley, then please do come to the Waterworks Valley Landcare AGM this coming Monday (August 11).

8pm, at Dave Graddon’s house at 152 Waterworks Road. Everyone is welcome.

The group is particularly seeking a volunteer to act as convenor for the next 12 months – or 2 people acting as co-convenors. This is a very useful and not-too-hard role to fill, the main activity being to liaise with Hobart Council’s Bushcare Co-ordinator (Sonya Stalbaum) over bushcare activities in the valley.

Please email Sue Lockhart if you may be interested.

By the way, the orchid images are from this excellent Tasmanian orchid website

Local ’sustainable commmunities’ have now set up in West Hobart and in the Channel area. We can learn from them as much as they can learn from us. And we can collaborate on some things.

Click HERE to visit West Hobart’s site.

Note that this group has set up three sub-groups: Home Energy / Gardening / Transport. What do people think about us doing similar?

Ever wondered what it would be like if a team of locals came in the did your garden up - in one day! Well, that’s the idea behind the ‘Permablitz’ movement, now popular in Melbourne.

Instead of each homeowner slogging away on their own garden, groups of householders band together and do each other’s gardens. Your garden gets blitzed on a chosen week-end. Good gardening solutions and ideas come from many heads rather than one.

Nobody gets out of doing the work, but it is a fun way to get things done and it’s commuty bonding too. Is there scope to do this in our community? I know of somebody in West Hobart who had her garden done over this way.

Check out the Permablitz website for more.

(With thanks to Philip-136)