Calendar of local events

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May 2019

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		1 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) 10:00 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 1 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets No garden of your own? Would you like be able to share some fresh produce? Go along and join Span’s gardening team. Wheelchair accessible, fun and supportive. You just need your skills, or want to [...] Vegan vegout 17:00 Vegan vegout @ Welcome To Thornbury May 1 @ 17:00 – 22:00 Tickets The food trucks offering vegan food who sometimes attend include: Bomba Wood Fired Pizza; Curry Up Now; Lady Rawsome; Paper Plains Food Truck; Pierogi Pierogi; Super Taco;Taitas Falafels; The Real Jerk Food Truck; Vegilicious; Von’s [...]	2 Newton Street Community Garden 10:00 Newton Street Community Garden @ Newton Street Community Garden May 2 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets A drop-in gardening session which everyone is welcome to attend. Click here to read about the garden. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 17:30 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 2 @ 17:30 – 19:30 Tickets Take something to share at their communal meal. Click here to read about the garden.	3 Community lunch (Preston) 12:00 Community lunch (Preston) @ The Bridge May 3 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go for a lunch and stay for the conversation and activities.	4 East Reservoir Community Garden 10:00 East Reservoir Community Garden @ East Reservoir Senior Citizens Centre May 4 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets Intro to gardening workshops with DIVRS 13:30 Intro to gardening workshops with DIVRS @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 4 @ 13:30 – 15:00 Tickets The DIVRS garden is a vegetable and fruit garden that specialises in growing fresh food for DIVRS’ emergency food relief efforts. Their volunteers will guide you through a hands on workshop on composting and worm [...] Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 14:00 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 4 @ 14:00 – 15:30 Tickets Members meet at the garden every Saturday. Click here to read about the garden.	5 Alphington Farmers’ Market 09:00 Alphington Farmers’ Market @ Melbourne Innovation Centre May 5 @ 09:00 – 13:00 Tickets Organic backyard chook keeping with Jessamy Miller 10:00 Organic backyard chook keeping with Jessamy Miller @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 5 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets In this workshop, ABC Organic Gardener writer Jessamy Miller will focus on keeping chooks in a suburban environment as well as introduce you to her own flock. You will learn how to build an ideal [...] Miso paste making 11:00 Miso paste making @ Private address (address provided on booking) May 5 @ 11:00 – 13:30 Tickets Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji (the fungus Aspergillus oryzae). You will make your own high protein and enzyme rich miso paste following traditional Japanese methods. Book [...] Backyard bees 101 workshop 13:00 Backyard bees 101 workshop @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 5 @ 13:00 – 14:30 Tickets Backyard beekeeper Morgan Koegel will introduce you to her hive and teach you what you need to know to get started on a beekeeping journey. Morgan will talk about the time and cost commitment, the [...] Monique’s rental abundance garden (garden tour) 15:00 Monique’s rental abundance garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 5 @ 15:00 – 16:00 Tickets Monique’s rental garden features fruit trees, veggie growing and chickens, all with a permaculture focus. The household puts an emphasis on eating and trading what they grow, as well as saving seeds for use the [...]
6	7	8 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) 10:00 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 8 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets No garden of your own? Would you like be able to share some fresh produce? Go along and join Span’s gardening team. Wheelchair accessible, fun and supportive. You just need your skills, or want to [...] Community lunch (Thornbury) 12:30 Community lunch (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 8 @ 12:30 – 14:30 Tickets A two course home-cooked meal is shared in their dining room with other friendly community members. Go along for company, conversation and support. A great opportunity to find out what’s available in the neighbourhood. RSVP [...]	9 Newton Street Community Garden 10:00 Newton Street Community Garden @ Newton Street Community Garden May 9 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets A drop-in gardening session which everyone is welcome to attend. Click here to read about the garden. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 17:30 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 9 @ 17:30 – 19:30 Tickets Take something to share at their communal meal. Click here to read about the garden.	10 Community lunch (Preston) 12:00 Community lunch (Preston) @ The Bridge May 10 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go for a lunch and stay for the conversation and activities.	11 Damian’s biodiverse permaculture garden (garden tour) 10:00 Damian’s biodiverse permaculture garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 11 @ 10:00 – 11:00 Tickets Damian has been practicing permaculture since he attended a talk by permaculture co-founder Bill Mollison in 1977. He is also involved in replanting native vegetation on Herring Island in inner suburban Melbourne. What permaculture and [...] East Reservoir Community Garden 10:00 East Reservoir Community Garden @ East Reservoir Senior Citizens Centre May 11 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets Northcote Food Swap 11:00 Northcote Food Swap @ Chalice Garden May 11 @ 11:00 – 12:00 Tickets Nuka zuke – rice bran pickling 11:00 Nuka zuke – rice bran pickling @ Private address (address provided on booking) May 11 @ 11:00 – 13:00 Tickets Nuka zuke is a famous Japanese fermented pickling technique using rice bran. In this workshop, you will make your own Nuka medium/bedding so that you can keep pickling at home for years and years! Book [...] Lee’s generous sharing garden (garden tour) 11:30 Lee’s generous sharing garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 11 @ 11:30 – 12:30 Tickets Lee has created a bountiful garden in her social housing estate using mainly recycled materials, and generously shares her surplus harvest, saved seeds and garden knowledge with her neighbours, friends, and local community. She demonstrates [...] Sharing homegrown food with Luigi and Emanuela (garden tour) 13:00 Sharing homegrown food with Luigi and Emanuela (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 11 @ 13:00 – 14:00 Tickets From the moment you arrive, your gregarious and hospitable hosts Luigi and Emanuela will entertain you with gardening and food preserving knowledge and stories as they showcase their abundant Mediterranean inspired garden. Features include intensively [...] Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 14:00 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 11 @ 14:00 – 15:30 Tickets Members meet at the garden every Saturday. Click here to read about the garden. Productive gardening with kids workshop at Poppy’s Patch 14:30 Productive gardening with kids workshop at Poppy’s Patch @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 11 @ 14:30 – 16:00 Tickets Poppy’s Patch started as a father/daughter project when Poppy was aged three and the family decided to use the space on the front lawn to start an edible garden – to not only grow food [...]	12 Alphington Farmers’ Market 09:00 Alphington Farmers’ Market @ Melbourne Innovation Centre May 12 @ 09:00 – 13:00 Tickets Backyard quails workshop 10:00 Backyard quails workshop @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 12 @ 10:00 – 11:00 Tickets You will meet Kat Lavers’ covey of quails. You will learn all about quail care including housing, feeding and how they can work to support a garden system. Kat Lavers is a garden farmer, permaculture [...] Natural pest management workshop 11:30 Natural pest management workshop @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 12 @ 11:30 – 12:30 Tickets Kat Lavers will explain natural pest management techniques relying on permaculture principles. You will have the opportunity to explore these techniques in practice in Kat’s permaculture garden which features fruit trees, intensive vegetable growing and [...] Guided tour of the Plummery (garden tour) 12:45 Guided tour of the Plummery (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 12 @ 12:45 – 13:45 Tickets Kat Lavers’ urban permaculture system, The Plummery, is a 280 square metre block which produces almost all the household’s herbs, veggies, fruit and eggs (428kg in 2018) while using only 46 litres of mains water [...] Robbie’s aquaponics garden (garden tour) 15:00 Robbie’s aquaponics garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 12 @ 15:00 – 16:00 Tickets Robbie’s front and back yards are both devoted to food production, and feature two aquaponics systems in which trout and vegetables are grown in a mutually dependent relationship, enabling both to thrive. One system is [...]
13	14 Rezza cook’s club 10:00 Rezza cook’s club @ Reservoir Neighbourhood House May 14 @ 10:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go along and help choose a new recipe for each class. Teach or be taught how to cook the food you’ve always wanted to know how to cook. Call to confirm attendance (9462 4611).	15 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) 10:00 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 15 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets No garden of your own? Would you like be able to share some fresh produce? Go along and join Span’s gardening team. Wheelchair accessible, fun and supportive. You just need your skills, or want to [...]	16 Newton Street Community Garden 10:00 Newton Street Community Garden @ Newton Street Community Garden May 16 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets A drop-in gardening session which everyone is welcome to attend. Click here to read about the garden. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 17:30 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 16 @ 17:30 – 19:30 Tickets Take something to share at their communal meal. Click here to read about the garden.	17 Community lunch (Preston) 12:00 Community lunch (Preston) @ The Bridge May 17 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go for a lunch and stay for the conversation and activities.	18 East Reservoir Community Garden 10:00 East Reservoir Community Garden @ East Reservoir Senior Citizens Centre May 18 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets Native bee workshop for kids and families 10:00 Native bee workshop for kids and families @ Sylvester Hive Community Garden May 18 @ 10:00 – 11:00 Tickets Katrina Forstner, founder of Buzz and Dig, will introduce your family to native bees, pollination and increasing urban biodiversity. This session aims to bring joy and wonder to children in as they discover insect biodiversity [...] Reservoir Food Swap 10:00 Reservoir Food Swap May 18 @ 10:00 – 11:00 Tickets Fairfield Food Swap 11:00 Fairfield Food Swap @ St. Andrews Church, side garden May 18 @ 11:00 – 12:00 Tickets Native bee workshop for adults 11:30 Native bee workshop for adults @ Sylvester Hive Community Garden May 18 @ 11:30 – 12:30 Tickets Katrina Forstner, founder of Buzz and Dig, will introduce you to the amazing world of native bees and how to attract them into your garden as pollinators for flowers and edibles. This workshop will demonstrate [...] Fruit tree maintenance and pruning workshop 14:00 Fruit tree maintenance and pruning workshop @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 18 @ 14:00 – 15:00 Tickets Maya’s garden includes 32 apples, persimmons, cherry guavas, feijoas and citrus. Using grafting and pruning techniques, she has created an edible hedge of her fruit trees with a combination of espalier, cordon and other interesting [...] Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 14:00 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 18 @ 14:00 – 15:30 Tickets Members meet at the garden every Saturday. Click here to read about the garden. Maya’s fruitful garden (garden tour) 15:30 Maya’s fruitful garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 18 @ 15:30 – 16:30 Tickets Maya has created an edible garden that is as beautiful as it is fruitful. Decorative, productive hedges are formed from an extensive range of pruned and grafted fruit trees using a combination of espalier, cordon, [...]	19 Alphington Farmers’ Market 09:00 Alphington Farmers’ Market @ Melbourne Innovation Centre May 19 @ 09:00 – 13:00 Tickets World Bee Day celebration 09:30 World Bee Day celebration @ Alphington Farmers' Market May 19 @ 09:30 – 10:30 Tickets Learn how to build a native bee hotel with Buzz & Dig. Afterwards, there will be free face painting. Harry’s micro orchard garden (garden tour) 10:00 Harry’s micro orchard garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 19 @ 10:00 – 11:00 Tickets Harry is passionate about gardening in small spaces and has been lovingly tending his fully organic micro orchard garden for 14 years. At 72 square metres, this garden demonstrates that you don’t need a large [...] Northcote Library Food Garden working bee 10:00 Northcote Library Food Garden working bee @ Northcote Library May 19 @ 10:00 – 13:00 Tickets Click here to read about the garden. Olive curing 101 11:00 Olive curing 101 @ Kitchen Warehouse May 19 @ 11:00 – 12:30 Tickets Learn how to cure olives from scratch. Gain the know-how of matching different olive varieties with the right curing method and brine. Citrus and apple tree propagating workshop with Harry Kalathas 11:30 Citrus and apple tree propagating workshop with Harry Kalathas @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 19 @ 11:30 – 12:30 Tickets There is nothing more satisfying than propagating your own plants. In this workshop, Harry will demonstrate two propagating techniques for citrus and apple trees: basic aerial layering and grafting. You will gain an understanding of [...] Lena’s courtyard and garden (garden tour) 13:30 Lena’s courtyard and garden (garden tour) @ Private garden (address provided on booking) May 19 @ 13:30 – 14:30 Tickets Lena has a permaculture-inspired garden in her 40 square metre courtyard, the aim being fill this space with as many productive plants as possible whilst attracting bees and other beneficial insects. A fascination for making [...]
20	21	22 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) 10:00 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 22 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets No garden of your own? Would you like be able to share some fresh produce? Go along and join Span’s gardening team. Wheelchair accessible, fun and supportive. You just need your skills, or want to [...] Community lunch (Reservoir) 12:00 Community lunch (Reservoir) @ Reservoir Neighbourhood House May 22 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets ‘Jen the chef’ makes meals which always includes a main and dessert. Why not go down and join in, eat something, and have a chat with some new friends.	23 Newton Street Community Garden 10:00 Newton Street Community Garden @ Newton Street Community Garden May 23 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets A drop-in gardening session which everyone is welcome to attend. Click here to read about the garden. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 17:30 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 23 @ 17:30 – 19:30 Tickets Take something to share at their communal meal. Click here to read about the garden.	24 Community lunch (Preston) 12:00 Community lunch (Preston) @ The Bridge May 24 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go for a lunch and stay for the conversation and activities. Community lunch (Alphington) 12:30 Community lunch (Alphington) @ Alphington Community Centre May 24 @ 12:30 – 14:00 Tickets A great place to meet old and new friends and enjoy delicious food. Everyone welcome, including children and babies!	25 Basic bakes 10:00 Basic bakes @ Kitchen Warehouse May 25 @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tickets Learn how to get the consistent results you’ve always dreamed of! They will share with you the tips and tricks behind a successful bake, from monitoring oven temperatures to choosing the ideal equipment. They will [...] East Reservoir Community Garden 10:00 East Reservoir Community Garden @ East Reservoir Senior Citizens Centre May 25 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets Preston/Thornbury Food Swap 11:00 Preston/Thornbury Food Swap May 25 @ 11:00 – 12:00 Tickets Petit gateaux 12:15 Petit gateaux @ Kitchen Warehouse May 25 @ 12:15 – 13:45 Tickets Level up your pastry skills and learn how to assemble little French cakes using mousses and cremeux. Learn show to put a brownie base, raspberry gel insert, chocolate mousse, and glaze together. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 14:00 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 25 @ 14:00 – 15:30 Tickets Members meet at the garden every Saturday. Click here to read about the garden.	26 Alphington Farmers’ Market 09:00 Alphington Farmers’ Market @ Melbourne Innovation Centre May 26 @ 09:00 – 13:00 Tickets
27	28 Rezza cook’s club 10:00 Rezza cook’s club @ Reservoir Neighbourhood House May 28 @ 10:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go along and help choose a new recipe for each class. Teach or be taught how to cook the food you’ve always wanted to know how to cook. Call to confirm attendance (9462 4611).	29 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) 10:00 Span Community House Community Garden group (Thornbury) @ Span Community House May 29 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets No garden of your own? Would you like be able to share some fresh produce? Go along and join Span’s gardening team. Wheelchair accessible, fun and supportive. You just need your skills, or want to [...]	30 Newton Street Community Garden 10:00 Newton Street Community Garden @ Newton Street Community Garden May 30 @ 10:00 – 12:00 Tickets A drop-in gardening session which everyone is welcome to attend. Click here to read about the garden. Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) 17:30 Sylvester Hive Community Garden (Preston) @ Pavilion School grounds May 30 @ 17:30 – 19:30 Tickets Take something to share at their communal meal. Click here to read about the garden.	31 Community lunch (Preston) 12:00 Community lunch (Preston) @ The Bridge May 31 @ 12:00 – 13:00 Tickets Go for a lunch and stay for the conversation and activities.

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