Hybrid adobe workshop update

Hi all,

The “Gardening and Sharing in the Wisdom of our Elders” project site is under construction in preparation for the Hybrid Adobe Workshop next weekend, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th

The posts are in for the rotunda. Nick and Max will be starting on the roof on Tuesday.

The foundations for the raised beds are underway thanks to Shearwater year 10 work experience students -Patrick, Djuann, Caitlyn, Amber and Peter (with some assistance from Max, Sol, Eva and Sharon). Sol will continuing on this
week.

We are still collecting newspaper – we need truckloads – every little bit helps – so please, drop off at the garden would be most appreciated. Anyone passing a newsagents – call in and grab their leftovers.

For those who would love to do the workshop but cant quite get the money together (like me), we can do a few subsidized places, so please contact me.

If you haven’t booked yet, I would like to know by Thursday night to organise catering.

There will be shade, and water and Shelly is nice, she wont be pushing anyone in the heat. We can take lots of breaks.

Hybrid Adobe is a gorgeous medium to work with and so many possibilities for its uses. We can create not only the raised garden bed walls but also sculpt around the rotunda posts to create “tree trunks” if we want to.

It is going to be great fun. Hope to hear from you.

Jeannette Martin
Co-ordinator
Mullumbimby Community Garden inc.
PO Box 149
Mullumbimby 2482

Phone: 02 6684 4876 or 0412 322 255

 

Hybrid adobe workshop

SATURDAY 5th and Sunday 6th December, 2009 8am ­ 3pm

Learn how to work with a clay and newspaper mix to make raised garden beds,
outdoor seating, garden walls and buildings.

Shelly Anfield will share her skills and hands on experience with Hybrid
Adobe used to create the Garden Room at Shearwater Steiner School.

COST

MEMBERS $75 two days $50 one day
NON MEMBERS $150 two days $100 one day
(Including lunch, morning and afternoon tea)

The Mullumbimby Community Garden will host this 2 day workshop to create
raised garden beds and seating from Hybrid Adobe for our ³Gardening and
Sharing in the Wisdom of our Elders² project*.

This project is supported by FRRR Caring for the Ageing in Rural Australia
program.

Phone Jeannette on 0412 322 255 or email mullumcommunitygarden@gmail.com
to book your place.

Payment to secure your place can be made by cheque to:

Mullumbimby Community Garden
Hybrid Adobe Workshop
PO Box 149
Mullumbimby 2482

Or direct debit to:
Mullumbimby Community Garden Inc.
Commonwealth Bank
BSB: 06 2578
Acc no. 10223269
Identified as ………(your name)adobe

 

Bamboo Dome Workshop

BUILD A BAMBOO DOME SHELTER at MULLUMBIMBY COMMUNITY GARDEN
with Martin Hartmann

Saturday 31st October, 2009

Coffee served at 7.30am for
8 a.m. start
until finished
(you must be able to commit to all day)

Members – $25
Non-Members – $50 (or join on the day)
includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea
STRICTLY LIMITED NUMBERS

To book your place and arrange payment ­ call Jeannette 0412 322255
or email: mullumcommunitygarden@gmail.com

 

Horticultural Therapy Coordinator Position – Applicants Wanted

Mullumbimby Community Garden Inc. is calling for applications from suitably qualified and experienced persons. Must have experience in nursery operations. Please download the position description below and return to mullumcommunitygarden@gmail.com.

Enquiries to Jeannette Martin, Mullumbimby Community Garden Coordinator on 0412 322 255.

Position Description – Horticultural Therapy Program Coordinator.

Applications close 30 October 2009.

 

Homegrown film night

MCG fundraising crew is doing the catering for this event on Monday night, 16 October 2009. It would be great to see you there.

 

Food for all project working bee

What and when?
Come along to our working bee on Saturday 3 October from 8:30am to get the Food For All project cranking.

How and why?
Members will implement a circular mandala garden to serve as a living nursery for plants. This gives us an onsite source of things like (lemongrass, arrowroots and other plants) to propagate elsewhere.

The idea for a mandala garden came out of a recent workshop with Tim Lang to plan the Food For All project. The workshop will involve shaping the mandala and planting out with a variety of perenial and annual vegetables.

What to bring?
If you have access to any of the following, please bring them along.

Cuttings, small plants, tubers of:
comfrey
arrowroot
lemongrass
vetiver grass
yarrow
tansey

Seeds of:
vegies to grow over spring summer,
companion plants/flowers (marigolds, calendula, cosmos, marigolds etc)
green manure (lablab, cowpea etc)

Vegetable seedlings

Of course, don’t forget a hat, sunscreen and work clothes.

What’s Food for All?
The mind map below came out of a group process at a recent workshop. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Food For All Mind Map

 

Nursery Pod Workshop

Our first meeting to discuss and plan the creation of facilities for our propagation and horticultural therapy program

We have allocated a space approximately 50m x 30m & we have funding from DOCS Area Assistance Scheme to build & create a program.

What will the nursery look like?

What facilities will we need? (eg. igloo, watering system, shadehouses, workspaces, mother beds etc)

Come along and join in the fun!!

Saturday 3rd October 2009,
9.30am – 12.30pm
MULLUMBIMBY COMMUNITY GARDEN (adjacent to the tennis courts,
behind the Mullumbimby Museum (market site) Stuart Street, Mullumbimby

MEMBERS FREE, NON MEMBERS $10 or join on the day
ENQUIRIES: Jeannette 0412 322 255

 

Biodynamics Pod meeting Friday 2 October

This Friday at the Community Garden the Mullumbimby Biodynamic group are meeting to make a Cow Pat Pit, which is used to enliven soils or for adding to compost heaps.

Please come along to help and learn. Your participation and a plate for a shared lunch would be very appreciated.

Please collect your egg shells as they also would be appreciated. There is a hessian bag hanging in the small shed to store them for future use. We need lots.

This is the first get together of the bodynamic pod. Kaye and others in the local BD community are keen to begin gardening together biodynamically and this is a great start.

We’ll meet at 9am and depending on whether our guest speaker makes it , finish around 1pm.

Hoping to see you there (in old clothes!) for some or all of the morning.

 

Meeting and gardening day this saturday

[From the coordinator] Hi all, Our first workshop is booked and on its way!!!

Saturday 26th September from 9.30 til 12.30 Tim Lang, (Northey Street City Farm) will facilitate a Food for All project workshop where we will
investigate what our communal food gardens will look like, what will we grow and how will we grow it.

Come and join in the fun.

By the way, remember our general members meeting is this Saturday, September 19th, 2009 (Mullum market day) at 2pm.

We will be at the garden from 10am pegging out, making signs, planting, watering, making compost, drinking cups of tea(or coffee) and having a chat.
Hope to see you there.

Jeannette Martin
Co-ordinator
Mullumbimby Community Garden inc.
PO Box 149
Mullumbimby 2482

 

Membership and general meeting

Our next general meeting is this Saturday – 18th July at 2 pm. Lots happening so I hope to see you there. We are now getting some Food for All communal garden beds ready for spring so all hands on deck before the meeting would be appreciated. Come along any time after 11am.

Memberships are now due so please bring your membership form too. Membership forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the blog’s become a member page.

I am also aiming to have our Annual Report ready by Saturday after our AGM a couple of weeks ago.

Anyone interested in native bees might like to come along to Aracaria on Sunday 19th at 10am to hear Frank Adcott speak. Gold coin donation and bring food to share. We are aiming to encourage native bees at the garden so we are looking forward to learning lots. Aracaria is the Biodynamic farm on the right at the end of Yankee Creek Road off Left Bank Road, about a km from Shearwater. Kaye and I will be there. All are welcome.

Jeannette Martin

Co-ordinator
Mullumbimby Community Garden
Phone 66 84 4876
0412 322255