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.)

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7.30pm
Tuesday
16th June
at Flat 4, 64 Waterworks Rd
(Cathryn and Daniel’s)

(In May meeting we were advised the the speed humps are definitely going ahead very soon, foreshadowed our climate grant project start-up date, planned ‘turning the first sod’ in community garden and agreed to contribute $50 to Princes Street School garden.)

Karen Brown snapped these pictures for us.

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Circus entertainers

Faces painted

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Creating sustainable communities beyond oil dependency
An information / discussion night with local community groups (South Hobart Sustainable Community, West Hobart Environment Network and Waterworks Valley Community).

7pm
Tuesday, 7 April
At 71 Murray Street (above EcoHaven)
All welcome

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We had a fantastic meeting, Wednesday 18th, to coordinate many of the great ideas that locals have had to make this a wonderful sharing event.

We hope to make this an annual fair and the level of success will be determined by how much people help make this one great.

We are looking for people to be involved as much as possible. Many small roles need doing – including the following:

• Stall coordination for preserves, jumble / garage sale.
• Coordinator for exhibition arts stall (all age groups), with prizes.
• Raffle coordinator
• Workshop coordinator (Tas Aboriginal shell jewellery? Shingle Splitting? Wildfire prevention and defence? Circus skills?)
• Help with letterboxing
• Transport / parking manager

Please contact Amanda if you can donate/sale/exhibit re any of these stalls.

We have achieved so much already regarding Harvest Fair, including involvement with Tas Fires Service, Council, Harvest Seed company, various stalls, craft, garden, cake stall coordinators, first aid, bushcare.

For more information please see attached minutes (below) and please do come to any of weekly meetings / morning tea at Amanda’s @ 144 Waterworks Rd.

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Hi All,

I am looking at getting a small group together to organise a family Harvest Fair in Waterworks Reserve around the last Sunday 29th of March.

If anyone is interested in helping, the idea is to have all the catchment letterboxed and invited to bring their home made produce of any description for giving, exchanging or selling.

Will also have some old style entertainments such as facepainting, apple bobbing and guessing games as well as some live joyful music.

Give me a ring or email if you are interested or leave a comment below.

Amanda at 144
Phone: 6223 7315

(Note: Folks are meeting at Amanda’s on 18th at 10am for morning tea to help plan this event – 144 Waterworks Rd)

Join us at…..

Friday 12th December
From 6 pm on
Sites 7 & 8, Waterworks Picnic area.

All welcome… flat play area… bring your own stuff… invite your neighbours… have fun.

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.

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?

In Britain the name for it is Transition Towns – communities that have decided to break away from consumer culture and ecological decay. Or, more to the point, towards much more wholesome, vibrant, sustainable ways of living.

Well, that’s roughly what we are on about, so their experiences are well worth reading about – and learning from.

Click HERE to read all about it.
Click HERE to download the Transition Towns Primer – a manual on how to do it.

Okay… below (click on ‘comments’) is a space for you to give feedback on the design of this website.

We will do our best to make it suit everybody’s needs.

If you look immediately to the right you will see a category ‘website feedback’.

Just click on there any time you have a thought. Thanks to Dorka for her helpful thoughts.   

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