Hi all. Here is something on the veggie growing front which we hope interests you. Please add any comments or corrections.
Cheers, Michelle and Jonah at 46.
Entries Tagged 'food + gardens' ↓
Vegetable sowing times for Hobart
January 4th, 2009 — food + gardens
Waterworks garden group
December 5th, 2008 — community organising, food + gardens
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:
Want to learn all about gardens and community gardening?
November 14th, 2008 — events, food + gardens
Growing Communities Conference 2008
The Tasmanian Community & School Gardening Network is pleased to invite you to the 3rd Growing Communities Conference.
It’s on this coming week-end 6 / 7 December and you will need to register.
Find all about it by clicking HERE, where you can download flyer, registration form and program.
And…. the Princes Street school veggie garden looks great and is exciting a lot of interest within the school community. So thanks to all those Waterworks folks who have contributed.
Home Expo - it’s on again, don’t miss it!
October 10th, 2008 — energy saving, events, food + gardens, landcare + faunacare, solar, transport, water resources
Come to the Sustainable Home Expo…. it’s on 1st week-end of November.
Green technologies, ideas, contacts, interesting talks… or just a place to catch up with friends.
A golden opportunity
September 30th, 2008 — community organising, energy saving, food + gardens, solar, water resources
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?
The local school garden
August 15th, 2008 — community organising, events, food + gardens
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.
Backyard grain growing
July 10th, 2008 — food + gardens
We have a lot of sunny hillside space going unused, and we’re wondering about growing a grain crop.
Quinoa (see photo) is not a grass, like wheat etc: it sounds interesting and tastes OK too, but so far I haven’t found any useful information about whether it would grow here - apart from discovering that it originated in the Andes, likes warm days and colder nights, takes 4 - 6 months to mature and should be planted once the frosts are over.
Amaranth can be planted with quinoa so they must require similar conditions: while it might be another possibility I don’t know what it tastes like!
Does anyone in the valley have experience with backyard grain-growing, or know where we can learn more about it?
For starters have a look at this website.
Just what your garden needs!
July 9th, 2008 — community organising, food + gardens
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)
Interested in buying fruit and veggies in bulk?
May 2nd, 2008 — food + gardens
A group of Waterworks households has been buying each week from the All Organic Farm – they deliver free for orders of $40 or more.
Product lists come out each weekend via email, we then email Glenda (at 136) what we want by late Tuesday, she submits the combined order Tuesday evening and it’s delivered every Thursday.
Group members then call in to Glenda’s with shopping bags and money that day and our purchases are weighed, or otherwise divided up.
We find the quality is generally good and it’s much more convenient to make the short walk to a neighbour’s place than to go to the market or trawl the likely shops.
Cheaper, and good for the environment too.
Continue reading →
Website to include personal exchanges.
April 21st, 2008 — classifieds, community organising, food + gardens, for sale
We have feedback from a few folks that they would like a click button on this website for personals - such as things for sale, or services on offer, or resources for sharing… and so forth.
We are looking into fixing that up. Meanwhile, here is a personal from Lil Waud.
For Sale
Samson Multipurpose Juice Extractor Augur-style low-speed extraction which preserves nutrients, enzymes and juice quality far longer than other juicers.
- Juices all fruits and vegetables including wheatgrass
- Minces onions, ginger etc and makes nut butters
- Makes smooth icecream from frozen fruits (eg bananas, mango) and sorbets from frozen juice.
- Grinds coffee beans
- Makes pasta and noodles (using extruder)
- Easy & quick to clean and set up
- Recipe book
As new, barely used. Cost $430 price asked $300
Lil Waud 6224 7390 Call round and try it!