Jul 262012
 

Local food events

Farmers Market . Montmorency  Primary School, this Saturday.

Fruit tree planting workshop 2pm-5pm Saturday 28 July at Buna Reserve Community Garden Heidelberg West. Free,  byo afternoon tea. Participants take home a fruit tree for their garden. Bookings essential, email urbanorchard@transitionbanyule.org.au and provide name, address and phone number of each participant or call Edwin 0407 567 245.

Home Harvest meeting next Tuesday 31 July starting 2.30pm at Edendale – “After the feast, what next?”

Saturday 4 August:  10am – 12 noon fruit tree pruning demonstration at 4 Adamson Street Heidelberg. Gold coin donation, bring secateurs. Limit 10 people. Register by emailing info@transitionbanyule.org.au or phone 9455 2581.

Pain free Gardening. Meet with like-minded gardeners at the Diamond Valley Library sustainable food garden to swap ideas and plants, and chat about all things garden. In this session there will be a presentation by Dr Matthew Holmes on how best to garden with least stress to your body. Tuesday 21st August   11.00am-12.00pm. Bookings required.

Wattle Festival, Hurstbridge, August 26. If you would like to help out at the LFC stall for an hour or two, we would love to hear from you. We will launch our local and seasonal recipe book on that day.

Other food activities/information

Milkwood says “If we want effective local food being grown in quantity, it’s time we start investing in and encouraging market gardeners to make this sort of thing happen, because that’s the only way we’ll actually get community-scale food… ” . Is anyone up for this project?

Chris Porter is an Honours student from Melbourne University. He is doing a research project investigating the social processes relating to the installation of ‘vegetable raingardens’ in Melbourne. Vegetable raingardens aim to reduce the impact of stormwater on the environment by collecting rainwater directly from roofs and using it to grow vegetables in self-watering gardens. He will be using an online survey to ask people some questions about their gardening practices, how they manage stormwater on their properties, and also what they think about raingardens in general. If you would like to help Chris by doing his online survey, email him at c.porter2@student.unimelb.edu.au or call on 0414 597 921.

Jul 182012
 

Are you able to join us on Sunday July 22?

LFC is having a Winter warmer get-together at Hildebrand Grove, 65 Hildebrand Road, Cottlesbridge from 12pm. Come and join us with your local food ideas and dreams! Bring lunch to share and have a wander through the olive grove before gathering to discuss future activities and directions of Local Food Connect. RSVP Ann on 0417 633 217.

Local food events

JULY 22. LFC get-together.  12pm @ 65 Hildebrand Grove, Cottlesbridge.   RSVP Ann a.strutt@belmatic.com.au or 0417 633 217. Tour of olive grove, discussion about LFC projects.

Jul 142012
 

Local food events

JULY 14 and 29. Fruit tree pruning workshops at Edendale Farm. For bookings, telephone Living & Learning Nillumbik on 9433 3744

JULY 17, 11.00am. Diamond Valley Library.  “Planting bare-rooted fruit trees”.  Free. Book online at www.yprl.vic.gov.au

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Jul 052012
 

Local food events

Over the school holidays, there are cooking classes at Eltham College (mentioned last week) and also St John’s Anglican Church, Diamond Creek. The latter includes 3 and 4 hour workshops for cake decorating and dinner and dessert meals for 6 – 13 year olds. Classes run on Mon July 9, Wed July 11 and Friday July 13. For more information, contact Angela on 0458 437 570.

Angela is also running casual cooking lessons for 6 – 13 year olds after school, Monday, Thursday and Fridays. There are 4 or 8 week courses, run 3.45 – 5.30 at Diamond Creek East Primary School kitchen.

Fruit tree pruning workshops at Edendale Farm, JULY 14 and 29. For bookings, telephone Living & Learning Nillumbik on 9433 3744.

Food discussions/planning

Vandana Shiva, renowned campaigner for clean food rights, on July 17, 6.30-8.30pm, Montsalvat. Bookings through Eltham Bookshop.

National LETS conference, Friday 26th – Sunday 28th October, 2012. Venue:  Upper Plenty Conference Centre. Earlybird registration till August 26.

A farm in Victoria has started a herdshare scheme. If you are interested in owning shares in dairy cows and receiving your own fresh milk locally, look for a Facebook site called Herdshares – North East Group. The cows are not fed grain, the milk is organic and may eventually be biodynamic, the young calves are fed by the older cows – quite a happy story really. There is a drop off point in Eltham if anyone is interested.