To Muschee, Horty, Collie…

http://www.permablitz.net/component/content/article/1-latest/125-launching-permablitz-perth-and-the-great-reskilling

Sounds like a really great event this Sunday at City Farm. Only I can’t believe that the two things that I most want to drag Mr Bon to, are on at the same time :( Sour dough and beer making..

Also, they’re starting Permablitz Perth! I think I’ve seen this on Costa’s show – basically a big group who do permaculture make-overs on each other’s gardens. I think you normally have to do three blitzes before your own garden is eligible to be blitzed.

I love the idea but I don’t think I would sign up for it…

bon008 said:

To Muschee, Horty, Collie…

http://www.permablitz.net/component/content/article/1-latest/125-launching-permablitz-perth-and-the-great-reskilling

Sounds like a really great event this Sunday at City Farm. Only I can’t believe that the two things that I most want to drag Mr Bon to, are on at the same time :( Sour dough and beer making..

Also, they’re starting Permablitz Perth! I think I’ve seen this on Costa’s show – basically a big group who do permaculture make-overs on each other’s gardens. I think you normally have to do three blitzes before your own garden is eligible to be blitzed.

I love the idea but I don’t think I would sign up for it…

Oh go on, have a go!

Dinetta said:

bon008 said:

To Muschee, Horty, Collie…

http://www.permablitz.net/component/content/article/1-latest/125-launching-permablitz-perth-and-the-great-reskilling

Sounds like a really great event this Sunday at City Farm. Only I can’t believe that the two things that I most want to drag Mr Bon to, are on at the same time :( Sour dough and beer making..

Also, they’re starting Permablitz Perth! I think I’ve seen this on Costa’s show – basically a big group who do permaculture make-overs on each other’s gardens. I think you normally have to do three blitzes before your own garden is eligible to be blitzed.

I love the idea but I don’t think I would sign up for it…

Oh go on, have a go!

hehe :) I’m tempted to go along as a helper first, just to see what it’s like. But I get so embarrassed about the state of my own garden. And I’m not sure that the jobs still needing to be done would fit under permaculture – e.g. the vegie beds are set up already, but what needs dealing with now is the neighbour’s *#$(^&*( plumbago.

Hopefully we’ll at least go along on Sunday and learn more about it, anyway.

Lurve my plumbago…great place to throw a lot of the soaked pots and pans (that aren’t going to go stinky)….

You never know, they may regard your vegetable garden as a learning experience…what’s the point if everybody has “nice” gardens?

Dinetta said:

Lurve my plumbago…great place to throw a lot of the soaked pots and pans (that aren’t going to go stinky)….

You never know, they may regard your vegetable garden as a learning experience…what’s the point if everybody has “nice” gardens?

Yeh, I know.. it’s a problem I have that I haven’t been able to sort out yet. But anyway, we won’t really know what the plan for the garden is until we’ve made progress on the building plans, so for now we’re just treading water, trying to keep things alive.

Plumbago is a dirty word in my house :D

Oh what a bugger…have had a girlies lunch organised for weeks now…typical!!! this is on today:(

But thanks for letting us know Bon Cheers

Muschee said:

But thanks for letting us know Bon Cheers

No problem :)

We’re not going either as Mr Bon is still feeling very poorly couch mancold! cough – and now I have a sore throat, too. Taking it easy but also getting some things done around the house. Kitchen hasn’t been this clean in ages, and the worms were getting desperate for a feed. Need to psyche myself up to bin all the grapefruit off the neighbour’s tree later today.

warning; this topic is being hijacked !

I went to a community garden meeting on Sunday in the Barossa valley.

They have good land (and lots of it) which church and community groups are willing to donate to the use of community gardens. And the council is willing to help fund the projects. However, the Barossa is an area of big backyards, so everyone who wants to grow their own has being doing so for years. So they have the land, the fencing and the irrigation but no participants. One solution is provided by volunteer farmers who plant out an acre of peas, pumpkins or lucerne with their tractor. The resultant organic veges are then donated to charity.

pepe said:

warning; this topic is being hijacked !

I went to a community garden meeting on Sunday in the Barossa valley. They have good land (and lots of it) which church and community groups are willing to donate to the use of community gardens. And the council is willing to help fund the projects. However, the Barossa is an area of big backyards, so everyone who wants to grow their own has being doing so for years. So they have the land, the fencing and the irrigation but no participants. One solution is provided by volunteer farmers who plant out an acre of peas, pumpkins or lucerne with their tractor. The resultant organic veges are then donated to charity.

The compost bins in the community gardens I have seen are a mess. The women say that the cutting, turning and watering of the bins is men’s business. The men have got back problems. So the compost of community gardens is a smelly rodent nest. Now there are compost experts giving talks to the community garden participants in the hope of improving things.

pepe said:

The compost bins in the community gardens I have seen are a mess. The women say that the cutting, turning and watering of the bins is men’s business. The men have got back problems. So the compost of community gardens is a smelly rodent nest. Now there are compost experts giving talks to the community garden participants in the hope of improving things.

Even my “cold” compost bin works, and it’s very basic in this regard…wet stuff, dry stuff, wet stuff, dry stuff…any thing that’s too big either gets mulched and onto the shrub bed(s) or just piled under a tree as a reptile home (this is about 30 metres away from the house)…I did have problems when one of my offspring just kept piling on the kitchen scraps, and now they either add newspaper or run the mower around for a catcher full of grass and add that…

Dinetta said:

pepe said:

The compost bins in the community gardens I have seen are a mess. The women say that the cutting, turning and watering of the bins is men’s business. The men have got back problems. So the compost of community gardens is a smelly rodent nest. Now there are compost experts giving talks to the community garden participants in the hope of improving things.

Even my “cold” compost bin works, and it’s very basic in this regard…wet stuff, dry stuff, wet stuff, dry stuff…any thing that’s too big either gets mulched and onto the shrub bed(s) or just piled under a tree as a reptile home (this is about 30 metres away from the house)…I did have problems when one of my offspring just kept piling on the kitchen scraps, and now they either add newspaper or run the mower around for a catcher full of grass and add that…

My dad maintained a completely unorthodox compost bin in his old place. It was sitting on coastal sand so I doubt any worms or helpful organisms got in. He just put food scraps in there, nothing else – never turned it. He had two and if one was filling up he’d switch to the other. I don’t think it was a common event to actually remove compost from the bin (although it must have happened sometimes – I have old chicken bones in my vegie bed which came from old potting mix dad gave me as filler) – basically it was just a foodscraps bin that never filled up, and saved putting them in the rubbish bin.

It bred some enormous slugs, and the major upside was that when you’d pop the lid open and stick it on the ground, the resident willy wagtails would arrive for a feast of flying insects.

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

pepe said:

The compost bins in the community gardens I have seen are a mess. The women say that the cutting, turning and watering of the bins is men’s business. The men have got back problems. So the compost of community gardens is a smelly rodent nest. Now there are compost experts giving talks to the community garden participants in the hope of improving things.

Even my “cold” compost bin works, and it’s very basic in this regard…wet stuff, dry stuff, wet stuff, dry stuff…any thing that’s too big either gets mulched and onto the shrub bed(s) or just piled under a tree as a reptile home (this is about 30 metres away from the house)…I did have problems when one of my offspring just kept piling on the kitchen scraps, and now they either add newspaper or run the mower around for a catcher full of grass and add that…

My dad maintained a completely unorthodox compost bin in his old place. It was sitting on coastal sand so I doubt any worms or helpful organisms got in. He just put food scraps in there, nothing else – never turned it. He had two and if one was filling up he’d switch to the other. I don’t think it was a common event to actually remove compost from the bin (although it must have happened sometimes – I have old chicken bones in my vegie bed which came from old potting mix dad gave me as filler) – basically it was just a foodscraps bin that never filled up, and saved putting them in the rubbish bin.

It bred some enormous slugs, and the major upside was that when you’d pop the lid open and stick it on the ground, the resident willy wagtails would arrive for a feast of flying insects.

I remember seeing on GA once that on a property the owners would put an open bottomed compost bin next to a newly planted tree. The resulting compost would then gently feed the tree until it was well established and they needed it for another tree.

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Even my “cold” compost bin works, and it’s very basic in this regard…wet stuff, dry stuff, wet stuff, dry stuff…any thing that’s too big either gets mulched and onto the shrub bed(s) or just piled under a tree as a reptile home (this is about 30 metres away from the house)…I did have problems when one of my offspring just kept piling on the kitchen scraps, and now they either add newspaper or run the mower around for a catcher full of grass and add that…

My dad maintained a completely unorthodox compost bin in his old place. It was sitting on coastal sand so I doubt any worms or helpful organisms got in. He just put food scraps in there, nothing else – never turned it. He had two and if one was filling up he’d switch to the other. I don’t think it was a common event to actually remove compost from the bin (although it must have happened sometimes – I have old chicken bones in my vegie bed which came from old potting mix dad gave me as filler) – basically it was just a foodscraps bin that never filled up, and saved putting them in the rubbish bin.

It bred some enormous slugs, and the major upside was that when you’d pop the lid open and stick it on the ground, the resident willy wagtails would arrive for a feast of flying insects.

I remember seeing on GA once that on a property the owners would put an open bottomed compost bin next to a newly planted tree. The resulting compost would then gently feed the tree until it was well established and they needed it for another tree.

That’s closer to what dad’s done in his new place – he’s half buried one of the compost bins in a garden bed, so hopefully with the benefit of worms and soil microbes this stuff will break down well. Actually I should take him some worms next time I’m up there. He wants a worm farm but mum isn’t keen on the idea :(

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Even my “cold” compost bin works, and it’s very basic in this regard…wet stuff, dry stuff, wet stuff, dry stuff…any thing that’s too big either gets mulched and onto the shrub bed(s) or just piled under a tree as a reptile home (this is about 30 metres away from the house)…I did have problems when one of my offspring just kept piling on the kitchen scraps, and now they either add newspaper or run the mower around for a catcher full of grass and add that…

My dad maintained a completely unorthodox compost bin in his old place. It was sitting on coastal sand so I doubt any worms or helpful organisms got in. He just put food scraps in there, nothing else – never turned it. He had two and if one was filling up he’d switch to the other. I don’t think it was a common event to actually remove compost from the bin (although it must have happened sometimes – I have old chicken bones in my vegie bed which came from old potting mix dad gave me as filler) – basically it was just a foodscraps bin that never filled up, and saved putting them in the rubbish bin.

It bred some enormous slugs, and the major upside was that when you’d pop the lid open and stick it on the ground, the resident willy wagtails would arrive for a feast of flying insects.

I remember seeing on GA once that on a property the owners would put an open bottomed compost bin next to a newly planted tree. The resulting compost would then gently feed the tree until it was well established and they needed it for another tree.

One of mine lives beside the lemon tree.

pepe said:

warning; this topic is being hijacked !

I went to a community garden meeting on Sunday in the Barossa valley.

They have good land (and lots of it) which church and community groups are willing to donate to the use of community gardens. And the council is willing to help fund the projects. However, the Barossa is an area of big backyards, so everyone who wants to grow their own has being doing so for years. So they have the land, the fencing and the irrigation but no participants. One solution is provided by volunteer farmers who plant out an acre of peas, pumpkins or lucerne with their tractor. The resultant organic veges are then donated to charity.

Then thank heavens for the farmers.

Just reusing this thread for a new event.

I can’t find any decent websites about this event, but I just got an PDF at work about it.

Perth Eco-fair!
Forrest Place, Perth, Saturday 5th June, 10am – 3pm
(NOTE: will be cancelled if rain is forecast)

Come & see…
Who’s doing What?When?Where?Why?How? for the ENVIRONMENT IN WA!

SEE DISPLAYS AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF:
• wormfarming, compost bins and bokashi kitchen composting buckets
• sustainable energy options for WA
• great West Australian plants for your garden
• starting a permaculture or organic garden & raising vegies from seed or seedlings
• birds of prey and cuddly pythons!
• how to be Greenhouse Gasbusters & beat this year’s electricity & gas price rises

FOR THE YOUNG & YOUNG AT HEART!
• Help make a beautiful Mandala pattern with REmida’s great recycled stuff!
• See what you can drive on the pedalpower machines by pedalling really really hard!
• Be a detective – find clues around the displays to complete our ECO-QUIZ!

SEE HOW WE CAN ALL SWITCH to a CLEANER GREENER FUTURE!

Anti-Nuclear Alliance of WA Aust (cloth) Nappy Network City Farm
Clearwater Revival East Wanneroo Coalition for a Safe Climate Conservation Council of WA
Environment House GM Free Consumers’ Network Mindarie Regional Council Earthcarers
Organic Association of WA Permaculture Association REmida Creative Re-use Centre
Save Our Marine Life Sustainable Energy Now Transition South WA Urban Bushland Council
WA Conservation of Raptors Wilderness Society of WA Wildflower Society of WA

Looks interesting bon…pity Perth is so far away

I don’t know if Muschee or Collie were thinking of going, but the June 5 Forrest Place event has been moved to City Farm:

…

SORRY FOLKS if you’d planned to come in to Forrest Place, but due to overcast windy weather predicted, we’re now doing it ‘undercover’ at City Farm, between 8am -12noon instead. Please pass this important notice along to anyone you may have emailed or told personally!

You’ll find some of the planned stalls and children’s activities, in between the organic fruit and vegie stalls at City Farm. The birds of prey and cuddly python will still be the special guests there and of course there are City Farm’s own chooks and rabbits to check out, as well as their wonderful gardens.

Get there by train, bus, bike, foot, or car. It’s next to Claisebrook Stn, Yellow Cat bus stops outside, plenty of parking. 1 City Farm Lane, accessed from Lime St off Royal St, East Perth.

OR head up to the World Environment Day Expo at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre 8.30am – 5.00pm (brought to you by the Joondalup Learning Precinct and the City of Joondalup.)

Something for everyone – composting & worm farm demonstrations, eco-documentaries screening all day & interactive displays. Train from Perth Underground Stn only takes 25 mins to Joondalup, with a 267 metre walk to the Lakeside. Compares very well with chugging up there in a car, eh?

bon008 said:

I don’t know if Muschee or Collie were thinking of going, but the June 5 Forrest Place event has been moved to City Farm:

…

SORRY FOLKS if you’d planned to come in to Forrest Place, but due to overcast windy weather predicted, we’re now doing it ‘undercover’ at City Farm, between 8am -12noon instead. Please pass this important notice along to anyone you may have emailed or told personally!

You’ll find some of the planned stalls and children’s activities, in between the organic fruit and vegie stalls at City Farm. The birds of prey and cuddly python will still be the special guests there and of course there are City Farm’s own chooks and rabbits to check out, as well as their wonderful gardens.

Get there by train, bus, bike, foot, or car. It’s next to Claisebrook Stn, Yellow Cat bus stops outside, plenty of parking. 1 City Farm Lane, accessed from Lime St off Royal St, East Perth.

OR head up to the World Environment Day Expo at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre 8.30am – 5.00pm (brought to you by the Joondalup Learning Precinct and the City of Joondalup.)

Something for everyone – composting & worm farm demonstrations, eco-documentaries screening all day & interactive displays. Train from Perth Underground Stn only takes 25 mins to Joondalup, with a 267 metre walk to the Lakeside. Compares very well with chugging up there in a car, eh?

Thanks Bon for keepin us up to date…altho I doubt I’ll be able to make it anyways