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Karen is an ace professional photographer and activist, if you ever need portrait or event photos click HERE to contact her.

Spuds will be next and the beds are now being prepared for autumn / winter crops of beetroot, wom bok, kale and a variety of other crops.

For anyone interested, next Saturday (20th Feb) will do more bean harvesting and planting of seeds and seedlings. For the record we have 30 garden beds, each of them allocated to a person or family to manage.

Thanks to Dave Graddon for the photos.

Calling all you wonderful valley people who would like to help set up our second Harvest Fair about fun, food and sustainable living – it’s on Sunday March 28. Click HERE to see poster.

I am hostessing weekly morning teas (with scones) 10am at my house (144 Waterworks Rd) every Wednesday before the fair.

Amanda Sully (sully.amanda@gmail.com)

Please come if you are able to put in some real time and energy as we need your help!!!

It was such a lovely day last year and at least 50 fab locals helped pull it off with $1,200 raised that has set up the brilliant “Waterworks Community Garden”. Such structures as fences and a watering system was installed through the fair profits which is great and a special thanks to the generous Graddons!

We need people to suggest and coordinate all/any sorts of local produce, garden seedlings and crafts stalls, provide entertainment, resources, time and any ideas.

Please contact me if you are able to help, or I will see you at morning tea next Wednesday 24th at 10am!!

Lets prepare for harvest time!

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Circus entertainers

Faces painted

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Circus family

Morris dancers

Face painted

Enjoying the acts

The choir

Selection of preserves

Self portrait

Colourful stalls

Harvest selection

'Biggest zucchini' contest

The following pictures were taken by Millard Ziegeler

Craftworks

Steptoe band musicians

Ros's amazing fruit dryer

Harpist

Class act

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)

(Photo: Karen Brown)

Special thanks to Amanda Sully and friends who dealt with all the logistics. And to everyone else who contributed in all of your various roles. It could have been chaos. Hope you all had a great day.

Dear All,

Thank you so much for being a part of the Waterworks Harvest Fair. Everyone seemed to have a lovely time and all the stalls were just beautiful!! The entertainment was BRILLIANT thanks to wonderful Morris and Circle Dancers, the lovely choir, baskers and Steptoe & Co (not Son!!!).

It was especially moving to have Auntie Coral an Aboriginal Elder, give a Welcome to Country and bring her stunning shell jewelry – thanks to Coral, Rodney and Sharron.

The Children’s actvities were just fabulous thanks to Jacquie, Matt and the face painters!! All the drinks were delicious and necessary on such a lovely warm day.

All those gems cooking all w/e was a real boon to raising $$$!!

I counted last night and we raised approximately $1,450 in net profit (plus $370 for the Waterworks Bushcare group from the tofu sizzle) with the Fair costing $450 in total. The cakes made $$312.65, Muffins & Cookies $119.55, preserves made $256, raffle $172 and fresh produce and stall commissions $409 and Jonah’s stall $176.

A big thank you to lovely Margaret and all those hardworking people from Sustainable Living Tasmania for helping us make this fair possible.

I am off to the South West Clean Up Beaches trip with Surfrider Foundation on Wednesday for 8 days but hope to have a catch up after that regarding options for a Waterworks Community Garden!!! very exciting.

You are all wonderful people and we feel blessed to live in such a magnificent valley! In particular thanks to Chris and Glenda – it was fun to do the fair. Having long service leave over Summer helped.

Let’s show Tasmania what we can do with reaching our carbon neutral target by 2025!

For our Future Together

Amanda

Fresh produce and preserves, kids’ games, sustainability initiatives, sausage/ tofu sizzle, and fire engine all part of inaugural Harvest Fair

Hundreds of people are expected to attend Sunday’s Waterworks Harvest Fair to enjoy fresh locally-grown produce and preserves, sustainable community initiatives, and fun activities for kids.

Waterworks Community is building positive initiatives to help protect the environment by attempting to map out a practical living-guide to a better future. The Harvest Fair is about showing the joy of a simpler life in the local community.

Harvest Fair organizer Amanda Sully said “We wish to help ourselves and others move forward from the paralysis of fear about the future towards a vision to rebalance our lives for the better.”

“There will be over 20 stalls exhibiting or selling fresh garden produce, crafts, jumble sale, seeds, bush care, sausage/ tofu sizzle, preserves, home-made lemonade and a giant zucchini competition. Workshops will be held on solar-energy bulk-buying options, weaving, spinning, vege gardening, composting, wood splitting and bird watching. There is also a large focus on kids’ entertainment with busking, face-painting, races, guessing games and apple-bobbing.”

Ms Sully said “The Waterworks community has started on the challenging road towards becoming carbon neutral with such projects as solar hot-water bulk orders, a gardening club, community fire preparation, energy audits of houses, bush-care initiatives and a school walking-bus.”

“We hope not only to become carbon neutral but actually to become carbon positive like a similar community in Frieburg, Germany which is actually a net creator of energy.”

“We invite people from all walks of life to walk or bike ride to our lovely, fun-filled, family fair up in the Waterworks Reserve Sites this Sunday afternoon.

“Drivers are requested to park outside the reserve and either walk the rest of the way or take the courtesy bus which will be doing 15-minute circuits of nearby streets in South Hobart and Dynnyrne.

“We encourage people to host fairs in their own communities. Believe me, it is a great pleasure to have helped organize the inaugural Waterworks Harvest Fair!” concluded Ms Sully.

WHAT: Waterworks Harvest Fair (selling fresh locally-grown produce and displaying community initiatives)

WHEN: 2-5 pm, Sunday 29 March

WHERE: Sites 6,7 and 8; Waterworks Reserve, Dynnyrne

FURTHER INFO: Amanda Sully: mobile 0427 057 090

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).

The community response is fabulous BUT… we still NEED HELP with the following jobs:

- Car Parking people
- Children music buskers
- Preserves Raffle ticket sellers
- Set up Assistants – between 11am-2pm at Sites 6,7-8
- Sign Painters/ writers
- Signs / chalk boards/ corflute loaned to us
- Bushcare BBQ Helpers
- Pack up Assistants – between 5-6 pm at Sites 6,7-8
- Cakes / slices donated
- Preserves displayed / donated

Please click HERE to email me ASAP if you can help.

GETTING TO FAIR
It is really important that people either WALK, BIKE ride or catch the circulating MINIBUS – so refer to your leaflet or download bus route.

NO CARS are to be parked in Waterworks Reserve unless you have a stall.

STALL HOLDERS
Set up is between 11am-1.30pm so PLEASE bring everything you need in cars up to sites in those times. We have a fire engine arriving at 1.30pm which will need main car park empty and so we need even stall holders to move their cars to other spots within reserve after setup. EMERGENCY ACCESS for fire engine etc is really important to maintain so please be careful where you park. Please bring following if needed & to help us:
- Your own $$ float
- Recycled / paper bags if selling
- Stall sign (we can sticky tape on table)
- Chairs
- Picnic blankets
- Tarp
- Water bottles/ cups (to save on paper cups)

Trestle tables are provided unless otherwise arranged.

N.B. please name any items so they don’t get lost. You must pack up all your own gear from 5pm onwards.

SOAP BOX
Come on, join Amanda & Chris &…. Get on the soap box and have a (maximum 10 minute) rave about anything to do with sustainability. Choose from Zucchini, carrot or parsnip microphone.

JUMBLE SALE
This is a great opportunity to sell your extras so please bring anything you wish to sell up to site 7 for drop off strictly between 11am-1.30pm, as no cars after this. You may need to also pick up what is left after 5pm. You can email Carol the Jumble Co-ordinator who will be there to oversee.

WEATHER
If it is pouring with rain for long periods and really windy at Sunday lunchtime we will sadly have to cancel but if only showers or drizzle then we are still on so please still come and lend us tarps and picnic blankets for sitting areas on damp ground.

Spells for nice weather required from all waterworks witches and warlocks!!!!

LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!
FOR THE EARTH & FOR FUN!!

CONTACT: Amanda Sully / Fair Collective

Many thanks to Sustainable Living Tasmania , which is co-hosting this event.

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

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)