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Kitchen Gardeners’ Intro to Permaculture workshop

Posted on June 27, 2015 by | Leave a comment

TTG Kitchen Gardeners’

Intro to Permaculture Workshop 

with Bonnie Wykman 

She’s back for a visit!

Bonnie’s brief return to WA is an opportunity too good to miss! Join us with Bonnie Wykman from Black Earth Education for a morning of exploring the basics of permaculture. This introduction to the philosophy of working with nature will change the way you design and manage your own garden in a considered and sustainable way.

The workshop will be hosted by South Guildford Kitchen Gardener Laurynne Joyce. Bonnie will be using the example of Laurynne’s backyard and garden to illustrate how you can apply ecological design and permaculture principles to your own garden. 

Bonnie is a well travelled and popular presenter and trainer in all things related to permaculture who is very well known to the local community. You are sure to enjoy learning from her wealth of knowledge and experience in all things to do with growing food in your own backyard.

EVENT DETAILS:

RSVP: We’ll be in a South Guildford back yard. Places are limited. Please Register via Eventbrite so we can be sure to fill all available spots.

https://ttg-permaculture-with-bonnie.eventbrite.com.au

COST:    $20 per person, including a yummy morning tea.

DATE:    Saturday 18th July 2015

VENUE:  Laurynne’s place. Address will be sent when you Register.

TIME:     Join us from 9am until 12pm.

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Verges to Veges

Posted on June 4, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Busy Bee at Tash's

Our verge garden group met at Tash’s last Saturday. She had already begun digging up her couch grass and replacing it with fruit trees, veges and herbs. So we extended the area significantly with a solid digging session! It doubled her available gardening area, so now Tash can get planting.

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Who are the verge gardeners? Basically we are a group of people who like gardening and we help one another with labour and advice to makeover our verges, transforming them into corridors of food or wildlife habitat. And it beautifies the street and saves water. Below is also a photo of Cristina’s verge that we worked on a month ago; the greenery is the emerging everlasting seedlings.

Emerging everlastings at Cristina's

Emerging everlastings at Cristina’s

We meet about every 3 weeks on a Saturday afternoon. If you would like to join in contact Pam at pamela.riordan@gmail.com.

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Verge Gardens off to a Great Start

Posted on May 27, 2015 by | 2 comments

Our newly formed verge gardening group is busy transforming verges around the Guildford area. We started at Barb’s where she has killed off her couch in preparation for a native verge. We still have more work to do, covering with cardboard and mulch before we can begin planting.

Cristina has a long very narrow verge beside a fairly busy road and it was  covered in weedy grasses. Six of us got to it with spades and in one hour we dug out all the weeds, raked over the ground, wetted it down and planted everlasting seed, ready for what should be a fantastic roadside display of colour in spring!

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This weekend we’re moving onto Tash’s to get started there (Saturday 30th May, 2-4 pm, RSVP for address). It’s amazing how much easier it is when you have help!

Our small group of gardeners all have different plans for their verges, some for veges, some for natives,  but by sharing labour and knowledge what can be a formidable task suddenly becomes achievable. We meet for about 2 hours every 3 weeks on a Saturday afternoon. We work for an hour or so and then retire for a cuppa and a chat.

If you would like to join our very informal group contact Pam on pamela.riordan@gmail.com.

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