Permaculture Open Day

CODEMO PERMABLITZ #3

This Sunday May 21st Thomas Street will be helping out with CODEMO's third Permaculture Blitz day with a northeastward excursion to Sustainability Grandma Monica's house and soon-to-be sustainable living centre in Moonee ponds. There will be several themes including making use of small spaces and the art of achieving vibrant health through adequate nutrition (our first foray into permaculture kitchen skills!). Come along for a great day of sharing and learning more together, with events including:

(1) Balcony and adjacent garden design and implementation (with Cecilia)
(2) Broad bean and garlic bed planting blitz (with Codemo President Nelson)
(3) Sprout gardening: Learn how to grow 20% of your food in an indoor garden the size of a dishrack that doesn't need any light! (with Dan)
(4) Cheese making workshop (with Cameron and Adam)
(5) Juicing and nut butter making demonstrations - with both electric and manual juicers (with Asha and Carey ;-))
(6) Talk and tour of Monica's plans to turn her house into a full-on sustainable living and permaculture demonstration site (with none other than Monica herself!)
(7) Preliminary zone one vegetable garden design (Monica is on the verge of setting up raised beds, a chook tractor, and is open to all sensible suggestions)
(8) The inevitable spontaneous outbreak of permasalsa and associated food and festivity

If you'd like to hold a workshop, give a talk or just hang out there will be rooms available - ain't nothing set in stone here! One hoped-for outcome of the day is to seed a new branch of CODEMO in North Melbourne - fliers are going out in three languages and we'll see who shows up on the day (if you can help post fliers about let us know and we'll email you some). Be warned: twelve Codemo members will be rocking up in a minibus and the whole day is promising to be an insanely good time. For drivers there is parking in Gladstone Street at the Safeway.

WHEN: Sunday May 21, 12 noon - 5pm
WHERE: 297 Ascotvale RD Moonee Ponds (ph: 9326 0489)
WHAT TO BRING: Food contribution, jars, rubber bands, seeds and fine mesh or cheese cloth for starting your very own sprout garden, fruit and veges to juice, peanuts to make peanut butter, stuff to bring for balcony project:
-Hanging baskets
-Quality potting mix
-Shade-tolerant Seedlings, herbs or flowers eg. impatients, Japanese
anemone. Plants with uses other than just looking pretty are prefered!
(suggestions please....)
-Pond dish - with mirror-like reflections would be nice!
-Frogs for pond, water plants
-Manure, straw, sawdust, compost to build up garden beds

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