Coverage of the Sunny Side Up Backyard Chooks project in the Midland Reporter (14 May 2013)
This project is supported by the Waste Authority through the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Account. We also acknowledge the assistance of the Men of the Trees.
Posted in Event, Media, Waste & Recycling
Tagged Chickens, City of Swan, Debra Netz, Midland Reporter, Peter Graham, Sunny Side Up
Registration is open for Transition Town Guildford’s Sunny Side Up Project. There was an article on page 7 of the Midland Reporter the other month about our success in receiving a grant from the Waste Authority (see below). You can see the announcement from the Minister for the Environment here.
The grant will enable us to run a series of workshops on everything you need to know about keeping chooks in the backyard. At the end of the program, participants will receive three chooks. The idea is based on a successful program in Belgium, where local authorities were able to reduce tonnes of organic waste going to landfill by giving away chickens to local residents. Apparently each chook can consume 150 kg of kitchen waste a year!
The workshops are aimed at City of Swan residents who don’t have chooks and will be starting on May 20th. If you live outside the City of Swan, please email us to register your interest ttguildford@gmail.com
For more information and to register, see the Eventbrite page here: http://ttgchooks.eventbrite.com.au/
This project is supported by the Waste Authority through the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Account. We also acknowledge the generous support of Men of the Trees for auspicing our grant.
For the long weekend we had a nice relaxing time down in Pemberton, about four hours south-east of Perth. Upon our return I found quite a few cucumbers a good size for making my first attempt of dill pickles! Thankfully today my order from OzFarmer.com arrived that contained lots of wonderful things I needed to make my pickles, so I got cracking!
I didn’t have a huge amount of cucumbers, probably about 15 small to medium, but I didn’t want to leave them on the vine any longer as the plants themselves seemed to have died off with what looked like a while dusting of mold on the leaves while we were away, and I wanted to get some pickles out of them before they died completely. I’ll have to do some more research on what this might be, there did seem to get a lot of aphids and ants on the cucumber plants while they were growing, which I did try to deal with some organic pest control, but it didn’t seem to do a huge amount of good.
Finished product! Three little beautiful jars of homemade pickles! I am so going to get some more of these blue vintage inspired ball jars in different sizes as they are so pretty! Will make storing my canning jars more of a work of art rather than just trying to shove my jars somewhere out of the way! Maybe I’ll put in a high rail all along the kitchen and sit them up there until I use them…. We’ll see what Dave thinks of this idea. 😉
The haul from OzFarmer.com, my beautiful blue jars, enough canning salt to last until the apocalypse, pickling spice and the very helpful book of Putting Food By. New bedtime reading methinks!!
By Steering Member Kim Farnell, first posted on her own blog Barbaloot Suits and Garden Boots. We look forward to hearing what they taste like! 🙂
Posted in Food
Tagged Canning, Cooking, Cucumber, dill pickles, DIY, Pickling, Preserving the harvest
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