Gardens for Wildlife

Gardens for Wildlife: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/gardens-for-wildlife-at-fawkner-festa-tickets-1066268250039

Gardening Course

I wanted to let you all know that we are offering our first comprehensive gardening course at West Brunswick Community Garden.

Please share and spread the word with anyone you feel might be interested, we're feeling really excited about this and hope to help lots of people build confidence around growing their own food and we'll learn a lot that we can use to make future courses even better.

If you're on Facebook, here's the event which you can also share.

The course, starting in March, will run over 16 weeks, with 8 sessions of 2 hours. Each session will focus on a different part of creating good gardening practices. Our trainer Elspeth Brock (yay Elspeth!) is a well-known educator, horticulturalist and permaculture practitioner.

The sessions will cover:

• soil prep, good planting practices and planning
• seed raising and propagation
• companion planting and layering
• watering, weeding, layering, mulching, staking, liquid feeding and all the little things
• compost and creating ongoing good soil
• pest control and management
• harvesting
• cooking, rejuvenating beds, ongoing planting, rotation cropping 

Best of all as this is our introductory course we are offering the whole course, 8 sessions, for $80! Places are limited, we only have a few left and we want to fill them up to make the most of this. 

Check out the details, dates and sign up here

Workshops

Garden Workshop

Fruit Tree Workshops

Fruit squad are taking bookings for the following maintenance workshops:

-        Session A: Plum and fig tree training, Coburg                        Sunday 17^th August 2-4pm

-        Session B: Fig and olive tree training, Northcote                    Sunday 31^st August 2-4pm

-        Session C: Pomegranate tree                                                   Saturday 13^th September 2-4pm

-        Session D: Orange and lemon tree                                          Sunday 28^th September 2-4pm

All the training will be undertaken by Elspeth Ferguson, a very experienced horticulture trainer.  The sessions will cover tree care, pruning, harvesting and how to tell when the fruit is ripe.  The cost per session is $15 for TD members and $20 for others.  Places are strictly limited so first come, first served.

  

Please let me know ASAP if you are keen to attend, and specify which sessions you would like to book in to.

Many thanks,

Regards,

Rachel

ecoze@mmnet.com.au

tel: 9489 9285

(on behalf of Fruit Squad, a Transition Darebin supported project)

Pruning workshop at Mulberry Gardens!

Pruning and Espalier Workshopwith Diane Cotter (eminent Horticulturist)Saturday August 4th, 2012, 11am-2pm120 Glenroy Rd, Melway 16K2Plant sale, food swap, café, children’s & gardening activitiesCost: Members/conc. $10.00, Non members $15.00For more information contact:Susie Maas: 0407070206