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IMPORTANT INFO FOR ALL!!!!!

WELL… the Inaugural Waterworks Harvest Fair is taking OFF!!! We have 20 stalls, 10 workshops & 6 fabulous main stage acts with music, dancing, singing & circus. It’s 2 – 5 pm next Sunday (29th).

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The Harvest Fair will be displaying / selling preserves that have been made by residents of our valley.

So if you have any jams, pickles, bottled fruit etc that you would like the opportunity to share, please email me so that I can co-ordinate a ‘fruitful’ display. You are welcome to sell any excess you may have or to simply help us showcase the fruits of our labour.

Jane at 142

As part of the Harvest Fair (see story below), we would like to have a display of arts and crafts that have been created/made by residents of our valley.

So if you have a quilt, cross stitch, tapestry, scrapbook work etc, etc that you would like the opportunity to share, please email me so that I know what to expect on the day and so I can contact you with further details.

Cheers, Sharron (at 140)

We’re having a cake stall at the fair. So….. could you please let me know if you can make a cake, cakes, slice or biscuits by e-mailing me, or feedback on website (below).

All offerings will need to be labelled with the type of cake, list of ingredients and maker’s christian name. (Health Department does not allow fresh cream to be in cakes sold.) All profits from stall will go towards reimbursing our costs from the fair (bus hire/ paper for printing etc)

Janine at 164

Here is Harvest Fair poster.

Email Amanda @ 144 if you wish to help with letterboxing.

Living sustainably with fire

ABC’s By Design program this week looked at some key points to consider when you are designing a house in a fire-prone area through the eyes or two architects specialising in these design concerns. Dr Ian Weir is putting forward the idea that we now need to live sustainaably with fire.

It starts by understanding how fire works, and all houses can be at risk from a structural fire. One of the key problems is stopping the embers and the fire that can trigger a structural fire inside the house.

You can click on the ABC site and listen to the program.

If you like what our local community has been attempting to achieve then you will like this. Click on image to visit the website of Sustainability Street.

This is all about communities in Australia that are achieving:

• up to 30% reduction in waste, water and energy consumption. Often much more!
• pride about working with friends and neighbours on locally devised and energised sustainability projects.
• deep satisfaction at having made new connections and friendships with others in the community.

I would be interested in feedback from anyone. Should we try to link up with this movement?

Chris at 195

Waterworks Garden Group is an informal collective of gardeners who meet to exchange ideas, help and equipment in their gardens in Waterworks community.

Some areas of interest and initiatives for the Group include:

• Seeds and seedling exchange
• Ideas exchange between members by email and face-to-face
• Tools and equipment register and exchange
• Guest speaker sessions
• Exchange/sell/give away excess produce
• Organise bulk purchases e.g. pea straw, manure
• Organise garden tours to see and learn from other people’s patches
• Working bees on projects in each others’ gardens
• Calendar of garden events
• Develop a large community food garden on Waterworks Rd

Click on the ‘food + gardens’ link on this web site to learn what the group is up to at any moment.

Contact Trish (or leave comment below) to become part of the garden group email list.

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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