A community at work
July 10th, 2009 — events, food + gardens
Hi community gardeners,
Now is time to get a compost going, and many hands make light work. Stuart and Jonah will be making compost at 12:00 this Saturday (August 1) above 137 Waterworks Rd.
If you can spare an hour and would like to join in, please bring along:
- A fork or shovel
- As much organic stuff as you can. (Grass clippings, weeds, Autumn leaves are great. No food scraps or woody stuff please.)
May 17th, 2009 — events, food + gardens
Saturday 16th was bleak, showery day, but we turned out in numbers for the ‘turing the first sod’, at community garden. It’s a very sunny spot and the soil is good.
The cabbages and carrots will have a great view of the mountain.
Contact for the garden will be Trish Moran.
Thanks to all who came, especially Trish for organising the day and The Graddons whose land has been made available.
April 22nd, 2009 — food + gardens
We have recently bought a Bokashi bucket for our food waste in the kitchen.
We find this a really good invention. The bokashi bucket is a clean and non-smelly way of disposing of organic waste at home. The bokashi mix actually smells quite nice, almost like sour dough bread.
April 8th, 2009 — food + gardens
Food. What we eat and where we get it from is perhaps more important than solar power… or how you get around.
For an insight, read this story: 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement.
And this one too.
And this third one tells about the power of the commercial food industry.
(The food basket, pictured, was exhibited at our Harvest Fair)
March 28th, 2009 — community organising, food + gardens, solar
Click HERE to hear it.
March 13th, 2009 — community organising, events, food + gardens
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)
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 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…
February 15th, 2009 — events, food + gardens
End of March is right time of year to plant out a range of vegetables and herb seedlings for growing over Winter.
I am sowing plenty of seeds for winter lettuce, broccoli, beetroot, spinach, leeks, cabbage, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, parsley + other herbs. Punnets of these can be sold at Fair or even given away. We can’t have enough of these, so if anybody wants to help please do.
How about somebody doing some herbs?
Email Chris @ 195. Ph 6223 4653
January 10th, 2009 — community organising, food + gardens, uncategorized
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.
January 5th, 2009 — food + gardens
This rare opportunity to poke our noses into other people’s back yards and learn starts on Saturday at 3pm at Jonah and Michelle’s place (46).
We’ll look at how Jonah raises seedlings and at their container plants, then roam Dave and Jo’s garden at 152, as well as visiting the site they’ve offered for a community garden. We’ll finish up at Chris and Carol’s (195) to see what can be done in a quite small space. We hope to finish by 5.30.
Everyone is welcome to stay on optional BBQ – BBQ provided, BYO everything else!
If you have seedlings, seeds or produce to swap/sell/give away let Trish know in advance: if there’s enough interest we’ll have a trade table at some point.
January 4th, 2009 — food + gardens
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.
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: