Over time, we hope to educate and inspire all school families and parishioners to implement composting systems in their home environment.
Monday, May 2, 2011
International Composting Awareness Week 1-7 May 2011
International Composting Awareness Week is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products.
We are very proud of All Hallows Parish School's waste management which incorporates composting and worm farming. Our composting and worm farming area within the school is very impressive - Food scraps of children, staff, canteen and OOSH are used and managed by the students on a daily basis to produce compost and reduce the waste that would otherwise contribute to landfill. Once decomposed we use the compost in our Parish vegie gardens.
Over time, we hope to educate and inspire all school families and parishioners to implement composting systems in their home environment.
Over time, we hope to educate and inspire all school families and parishioners to implement composting systems in their home environment.
Happy National Permaculture Day! Sunday 1 May
Tthe following podcast is an interview with Geoff Lawton (a renowned permaculture consultant, designer and teacher) that aired on ABC Radio's Bush Telegraph last Friday 29 April.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/04/bth_20110429_1133.mp3
For those of us who have trouble explaining what Permaculture is to our family, friends and colleagues, this is a great link to send on to people to introduce the idea to those who are interested in finding out more.
The interview was conducted in the lead up to National Permaculture Day which was held yesterday, Sunday 1 May, 2011. This is a day where a range of Permaculture events occur across Australia.
All Hallows Parish Communtiy Garden held our own National Permaculture Day event - A Worm Farming Workshop presented by Paul Boundy (The Watershed Newtown and Community Garden Workshops).
The Workshop was a huge success with those who attended gaining new knowledge, as well as installing a Bath Tub Worm Farm in the Parish Garden and a Worm Tower in one of the School Garden beds. Each of these Worm Farms have started with a herd of 1000 worms which will go forth and multiply, whilst producing castings and worm juice that will contiue to nourish our garden beds over the years. These worms are a different species to the ordinary earth worm that we find in the soil of our home gardens, but the two species can and do live in harmony with each other.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/04/bth_20110429_1133.mp3
For those of us who have trouble explaining what Permaculture is to our family, friends and colleagues, this is a great link to send on to people to introduce the idea to those who are interested in finding out more.
The interview was conducted in the lead up to National Permaculture Day which was held yesterday, Sunday 1 May, 2011. This is a day where a range of Permaculture events occur across Australia.
All Hallows Parish Communtiy Garden held our own National Permaculture Day event - A Worm Farming Workshop presented by Paul Boundy (The Watershed Newtown and Community Garden Workshops).
The Workshop was a huge success with those who attended gaining new knowledge, as well as installing a Bath Tub Worm Farm in the Parish Garden and a Worm Tower in one of the School Garden beds. Each of these Worm Farms have started with a herd of 1000 worms which will go forth and multiply, whilst producing castings and worm juice that will contiue to nourish our garden beds over the years. These worms are a different species to the ordinary earth worm that we find in the soil of our home gardens, but the two species can and do live in harmony with each other.
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| 1000 Worms being introduced to their new home in the Parish Garden Bath Tub Worm Farm |
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| The School Garden Worm Tower |
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