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 |
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Visiting our neighbouring Community Gardens - Sunday 6 March 2011
Little do most of us know, that in the midst of many Inner Western suburbs that we all frequently drive through or visit are these wonderful garden oases.
This morning our garden committee visited two of these gardens - Glovers Community Garden in Rozelle; and the Leichhardt Permaculture Garden in behind Leichhardt's Fire Station.
Glovers Community Garden recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The following link will take you to a Village Voice article reporting on the celebration. http://balmain-village-voice.whereilive.com.au/news/story/rozelle-garden-celebrates-25-years/ This garden is regarded as NSW's first community garden and really provides us with inspiration and a vision for what we might be able to create over the next 25 years for our community.
Thank-you Jane Mowbray and the Glovers Garden members who showed us around your beautiful garden.
Leichhardt Permaculture Garden is a very new community garden. Thank-you to Heather Formaini and the Garden members for sharing their knowledge and experiences with us. We enjoyed morning tea in the garden - loved the Sacred Grounds Coffee. The raised garden beds in this garden are what inspired our design for the raised beds that we have just constructed and planted in the Parish Garden.
We value and intend to maintain our relationships with our neighbouring gardens - we have so much to share: knowledge, experience, seeds, plants and food!
Little do most of us know, that in the midst of many Inner Western suburbs that we all frequently drive through or visit are these wonderful garden oases.
This morning our garden committee visited two of these gardens - Glovers Community Garden in Rozelle; and the Leichhardt Permaculture Garden in behind Leichhardt's Fire Station.
Glovers Community Garden recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The following link will take you to a Village Voice article reporting on the celebration. http://balmain-village-voice.whereilive.com.au/news/story/rozelle-garden-celebrates-25-years/ This garden is regarded as NSW's first community garden and really provides us with inspiration and a vision for what we might be able to create over the next 25 years for our community.
Thank-you Jane Mowbray and the Glovers Garden members who showed us around your beautiful garden.
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| Beautful mosaic sign |
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| Jane Mowbray sharing her wealth of knowledge |
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| Kids entering the chicken coop |
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| The spunky rooster and his chickens |
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| Examining the fruit trees inside the chicken coop - beautifully sweet grapefruit! |
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| Must get that Seed Savers book |
Leichhardt Permaculture Garden is a very new community garden. Thank-you to Heather Formaini and the Garden members for sharing their knowledge and experiences with us. We enjoyed morning tea in the garden - loved the Sacred Grounds Coffee. The raised garden beds in this garden are what inspired our design for the raised beds that we have just constructed and planted in the Parish Garden.
We value and intend to maintain our relationships with our neighbouring gardens - we have so much to share: knowledge, experience, seeds, plants and food!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Presentation of Garden Designs - November 19, 2010
On completion of an eight-week TAFE NSW Community Garden Course, a team of dedicated All Hallows parishioners, school parents and teachers presented to the Community designs for three garden sites within the Parish grounds.
The Parish Community have been invited to comment on the proposed designs which will be finalised at our next Committee Meeting - Wednesday 16 March, 2011.
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