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The Cotter Garden has free firewood available in the form of very dry branches from our eucalypt trees and hardwood fencing materials. If you are interested in removing any of this from the Garden, near the Yarralumla Woolshed, very soon please contact Ann Smith via a.smith[at]netspeed.com.au or on 6285 2995.
Gunning Public School P&C Association will deliver sheep manure (“Gunning Gold”!) to your door in Canberra on Sunday 15th August, 2010. Please e-mail Carol at <wodonga@aapt.net.au> or call 4845 1314 before 17 July–the earlier the better.
Minimum of 5 bags per delivery. The dry manure is collected from under shearing sheds. Share this information and join with your neighbours if you don’t need 5 bags yourself. Bags are $8 each; and weigh around 15Kg.
All proceeds go to the Gunning Public School, a small school of around 60 students to help supply books, sporting equipment, craft materials, etc. The children thank you for your support.
Loganberry vines on offer: the parent was vigorous during the past summer with minimal drip watering. To arrange drop-off or collection, contact me via <a.smith@netspeed.com.au> or 6285 2995.
Ann
I have a chilli tree (see photo) that has provided me with a substantial chilli surplus. The chillies are a bell-shaped, red, mild, heritage varietyfrom Vaucluse House in Sydney. They are available to any members who would like some.
I have just bought a copy of Sally Wise’s new book “Out of a Bottle” which has a tomato chilli chutney recipe which will use 20 to 30 chillies.
Regards,
Alan
The Seed Savers Conference will be held at Mudgee on 29 and 30 May. The program and an application form can be found here.
Cooma Community Garden Autumn Harvest Festival Saturday 27th March 10am – 1pm at the Uniting Church grounds, Soho St Cooma. The day is packed with activities for children and families with loads of fun old-fashioned harvest festival events. For more information and a full list of activities please email coomagardens[at]gmail.com or phone 0432 760 618. Please bring a BYO everything picnic.
Entry to the festival is free, however we’re asking every family or person to bring at least one thing that has been produced at their home, to create a display of the Autumn Harvest.
Children are being encouraged to come along dressed as Autumn fairies and pixies, and will be getting their hands stuck into some dough and making a ‘blow-fly’ bread roll from scratch, then getting them dirty harvesting & washing potatoes that will be made into salad for lunch. There will be festival games including wheelbarrow races, musical instruments for communal kids play, scarecrow building, accordion playing sing-a-long of children’s songs and face-painting. For the grown-ups there’s a chance to work with Rosie and Pete from the community garden group and create an Autumn food garden bed; and then to attend a Family Health workshop, making a topical preparation with herbs grown at Soho Street with an experienced medicinal herb practitioner.
The Harvest Festival is less than 2 weeks away! Come along for the free workshops on raising seedlings, pizza ovens, Permablitzing the suburbs, how to make authentic Korean kimchi and bottling your crop.
Or come along to kick back under the trees, grab a biodynamic burger and a coffee, locally brewed beer or biodynamic wine and listen to the sweet sounds of the Wedded Bliss, Wim’s Gypsy Jazz and Rafe Morris playing through the afternoon.
Saturday the 27th 12-5pm at the Environment Centre, Corner of Lennox Crossing and Lawson Cr (near the museum).
Crash your food miles at Canberra’s only local and organic food & community festival.
Don’t forget the Biggest & Best Organic Fruit & Veggie Competition!! Bring along something from your garden for a chance to win great prizes from Narooma ecotel, Mooble or a load of fabulous hotrot compost. Judged by COGS.
If you are concerned about the potential impact of global warming on sustainable food production both in our gardens and on farms, please see www.walkagainstwarming.org for details about the Walk Against Warming for the ACT to be held on 12th December, 11.30am, New Parliament House Lawns.
My wife and I have recently started a new business mulching peoples green waste using a large commercial flail type mulcher (RedRoo).
We would like to offer your community garden plot holders our service for free for an hour a month (that’s about 4 trailer loads of green waste) .
For more information visit mobilemulching.com or contact us on 6238 2676
Regards
Glen and Lee
The Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc. is a non-profit organisation which was started in 1977 with the aim of providing a forum for organic growers to exchange information and encourage the general public to adopt organic growing methods.
