Category Archives: Local food

Sunday 4 March 2012, 1.30 – 5pm
Board Room, BDCU, 411 Bong Bong Street, Bowral.

Programme

1.30pm Registration opens
2.00pm Meeting starts
2.45pm Meeting ends; Light refreshments available
3.00pm Film and discussion.

Film: Design for Life: Permaculture — The Food Forest Story

This quietly inspiring film shows how Graham and Annemarie Brookman built their dream, transforming a bare paddock near Adelaide into a bountiful food forest, using renewable energy, appropriate technology and sustainable farming and living practices. They show that an ordinary family can grow its own food and create a productive and diverse landscape. The Food Forest is not just about sustainable gardening and farming. Energy wise projects at the farm include straw bale buildings, passive solar housing, solar hot water, and solar panels for electricity.

After the film there will be an opportunity to talk about it with a panel of experienced permaculture enthusiasts, including local identity Jill Cockram.

Film cost: Free to CANWin Members. Visitors welcome: $8

WORKSHOP

BUILD A COB PIZZA OVEN

Saturdays 2^nd and 9^th October, 2010:  9.00am till 4.00pm

Would you like to be involved with the ancient art of cob construction AND gain cooking skills and strategies using a cob oven?

Thinking of creating a pizza oven at home?

Manuel Alves, an experienced cob oven builder and chef, will be taking us through the process of building a cob pizza oven using as many recycled materials as possible (sourced mainly from the Moss Vale Resource Recovery Centre).  The workshop will run over a series of Saturdays in early October and November.

This will be a FUN, hands-on experience, so please wear your working gear and boots.

Cost: $50 for the WHOLE experience over 4-5 Saturdays in total        OR ….

$20 for just one day.   (Both options inclusive of morning tea and sausage sizzle lunch)

Venue: MV Community Garden – Railway Street, Moss Vale (by the tennis courts)

Numbers strictly limited to 8 people/session so please book before 31^st September.

To book:  Email Jill on www.mossvalecommunitygarden.info

Or  phone Sandra at Anglicare on 4868 1780

Sponsored by the New south Wales Environmental Education Trust

Permablitz – Phillips place – Sunday 5th September 2010.
A weekend of carbon cycling alchemy.
On Saturday and Sunday I will be harvesting separating vermicompost.
sieving and building up a high quality container potting mix
for the integrated vermiponic system – tomatoes beans this year,water chestnuts for next year.
I Have a TLUD to cook lunch on (BBQ), bring some food to share.
WE will cover on the day vermiponics, potting soils, composting, biochar, nutrient processing.
I will be home all weekend, please drop in.
Sunday 9:00 till whatever
Saturday by appointment.
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