Posts Tagged ‘garden’
Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard
Posted in Events by samgreen on October 26th, 2011
| 9 November , 2011 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
Endangered: Regent Honeyeater. Photo by marj k via flickr CC
How we garden makes a big difference to the health of our local environment – water conservation, growing our own chemical free food and creating wildlife habitat all help keep our environment healthy.
In this session you will learn how you and your community can create food, water, shelter and nesting sites for birds, bees, frogs, butterflies and other wildlife in your garden and local neighbourhood.
Date: Wednesday 9 November 2011, 12.30-1.30pm
Location: Reception Room, Maribyrnong Council Offices, cnr Hyde & Napier Sts Footscray
To register please visit ww.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/lunchbox or contact Council’s Sustainability Officer on 03 9688 0357 for more information.
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Northcote Library Food Garden: Launch & Garden Party
Posted in Events by Kate Archdeacon on August 29th, 2011
| 3 September , 2011 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
The Northcote Library Food Garden‘s Official Launch and Garden Party
Saturday September 3rd from 11am
Please come and celebrate the opening of Northcote’s newest community garden with us.
- Melbourne Ukulele Kollective play from 11am.
- Food Swap 11am – 12pm. Participate in the Urban Harvest swap. Bring your excess garden produce and swap it for something you don’t have!
- Official Launch – 11.15am. Join Cr Diana Asmar, Mayor of Darebin, as she launches the garden, the 2011/2012 Backyard Harvest Festival and Darebin’s Sustainable Food and Gardening guides.
- Garden Tour and Talk – 11. 45am. Join local permaculturalist and Food Forest expert, Angelo Eliades, to reflect on the 2011 International Year of Forests and the role that Urban Food Forests can play in local food production.
- Children’s Gardening Workshop – 12.15pm. Plant a sunflower, pot your own seedling to take home, visit our garden’s busiest workers, the earthworms, and create some garden art.
- Free Gardening Workshops 12.45pm – Seasonal Planting & Preparation Find out what to plant and how to prepare your garden beds for the Spring season.
- Fruit Tree Care – 1.15pm. Yellow leaves? Creepy-crawlies? Low production? Find out how to keep your fruit trees healthy and productive throughout Spring and Summer.
We would appreciate a RSVP to the Children’s Gardening Activities and Workshops. Please email northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com with your name and preferred activity.
http://www.northcotelibraryfoodgarden.blogspot.com/
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DIY Sustainable Garden Design with SGA
Posted in Movements, Research by Kate Archdeacon on August 19th, 2010
Source: cuttings, the Sustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) newsletter
The Sustainable Garden Design Series aims to help gardeners design or redesign (build or rebuild) their gardens as sustainable landscapes. Each month we will take you through the steps necessary to ensure the best possible outcome for all your hard work!
Autumn is a good time to make changes to your garden in southern Australia – especially after the first rains, as the soil is still warm and the plants will have an opportunity to get established before the next dry season. So now is a good time to start thinking about it and to prepare a plan.
The Principles of Sustainable Landscape Design:
1. minimise the requirement for energy inputs.
2. minimise the requirements for high water inputs, above that which naturally occurs in the particular region.
3. maximise opportunities for biodiversity at all levels.
4. maximise vegetative biomass.
5. maximise the opportunity for the growth of produce and other useful materials.
6. minimise the risk of weed-escapees moving into native habitats.
7. minimise or eliminate the use of materials that disrupt, destroy, pollute or damage natural systems/communities where they are sourced.
8. minimise the risk of disruption, pollution or interference to other systems.
Part 1 – Getting Started
Part 2 – Your Needs, Wants and Budget
Part 3 – Drawing up the Design
Part 4 – Choosing Plants
Part 5 – The Soft Landscape
Part 6 – The Hard Landscape
Part 7 – Water Gardens
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