North Katoomba – our sustainable future: meeting this Sunday

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North Katoomba – our sustainable future!

  •   What will our neighbourhood look like in 10 years?
  •   How can we live sustainably in our local community?
  •   What can we do to increase our food security and economic resilience?Come and join your neighbours to talk about growing food, building a local economy and lowering our carbon footprint. This is the first step to build neighbourhood transition groups.

    Gather for afternoon tea at North Katoomba community gardens, Sunday 29th January at 2 pm. More information: Sue 0418 292 672 or: bmpower@live.com

     

new volunteer timeslot added on Sundays 10am-12

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A new timeslot for volunteer meetings at the Katoomba community gardens will now be run on Sundays 10am till 12 Midday.

For many working people living in the mountains it is hard to make the current Friday 10am-2pm timeslot. We are keen to get more people involved who cannot make those Friday sessions due to work or other commitments.

These sessions will be only two hours and tend to be focussed on undertaking a specific range of tasks or workshop like activities. It is assumed that the intent is also to meet up with like minded community gardening people and catch up with how the gardens are progressing, swap plants, seeds and information. Feel free to come and help or possibly just watch the plants grow.

The shed will be open and tools available for this two hour period.

The first of these Sunday volunteer sessions will be this coming Sunday 22nd January [2012]

This does not replace the Friday volunteer sessions which will continue as usual each Friday from 10am till 2pm.

physic & herb garden progress

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The physic & herb garden progresses...

Phew! the weather has been extreme for a while now… but work is still happening on developing the physic & herb garden.

Stage 3 of the herb garden is complete with a layer of soil now sitting on top of slightly aged base layers of chip, compost, lucerne and straw. The top layer has mushroom compost, cow manure, general compost and a range of other goodies in it. It is about 10-15cm deep all over.
Stage 4 – next work is making the sides more defined and stabilised.
Stage 5 – Given a week to settle this top layer will sink a bit and we can level it again and start planting while adding more soil and mulch as we do it.
It will be complex getting the soil PH and build/texture correct for a lot of the herbs initially but it should support some of the hardier ones now the weather has settled.

another great friday!

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Was good to see a lot of people turn up today for the friday session. Despite the previous week or so of solid rain and wetness it was a fairly sunny and warm day and we got a lot done. The Broadbean harvest half filled a wheelbarrow and we got a lot of soil area prepped for planting of the summer greens. Here’s a few snaps of some of the group working up at the north end on turning soil over.