Home Education Help

To assist in home learning over the coming months, get your lovingly designed permaculture action cards written by our friend Charlie McGeee, support struggling musos in this time of need

Permaculture Action Cards

from Formidable Vegetable

A pack of 63 full-colour cards lovingly illustrated by permaculture illustrator, Brenna Quinlan. The deck features the 3 permaculture ethics, 12 principles and 46 illustrated action cards depicting colourful characters putting them into practice in the garden, community and beyond as well as relevant lyrics from Formidable Vegetable on the back of each card. With multiple ways to play and learn, these are an ideal resource for home-schooling, or school-schooling kids of all ages! Orders also receive a free download of the acoustic version of Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual.

Includes unlimited streaming of Permaculture: A Rhymer's Manual - Acoustic Ukulele Version via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

https://music.formidablevegetable.com.au/merch/permaculture-action-cards

Friends of Coburg Lake and Surrounds

Hello fellow planters and carers of the creek.

Care of our new heightened requirements for social distancing we are cancelling our monthly weeding, mulching and planting morning at Coburg Lake, that would have started today at 9.30 am.

If you would still like to help hand weed this site, or any of the others we have been revegetating over the last 10 years along the creek corridor between Coburg Lake and Goleen Street, please feel free to do so by yourself.  If doing so, please ensure that you keep a safe 1.5 metres away from the Merri Creek path, to reduce our risks of close contact and transmission of COVID-19.

If you do want to adopt a patch or area to hand weed along our beautiful Merri Creek, knowing what is and isn’t a weed can sometimes be tricky, especially when it comes to native grasses and groundcover plants.  I encourage you to err on the side of caution, i.e. if you are not sure, please leave it in the ground.  You can also take a photo and email it to me and I can try and help you identify it, or get help to identify it for you.

I hope you all stay safe, lots of hand washing, social distancing, eating healthy food and finding ways to get in some exercise and keep mentally and emotionally well,

Take care.

Emma x

Emma Hopkins

Founder of Friends of Coburg Lake and Surrounds

m: 0490 368 209    e: emma_hopkins@optusnet.com.au

Community Climate Action Series

The Community Climate Action Series (that we host with Neighbours United for Climate Action, normally at the Newlands Neighbourhood House) is still going ahead - we are adapting it to be delivered on-line (via zoom) until it’s safe to meet in person again. We figure it’s more important than ever to connect with each other and share ideas… and the climate crisis remains as urgent as ever in this time of pandemic. So please join us this Saturday for our very first on-line session if you can!

It will run from 2-3.30pm.

Topic: Citizens’ Assemblies - what are they and how do they work? (Find the link to the Facebook event here)

What is a Citizens' Assembly and how does it work? What would it look like here and how would our system change if we had one? Did you know that cities and countries around the world have had citizens’ assemblies? Extinction Rebellion (XR) have three key demands the world over, and installing Citizens’ Assemblies (CA) alongside parliaments is their third one. Find out more at this session, presented by CA enthusiast, Sonia Randhawa from Coalition of Everyone. Register here https://us04web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMode6rrz4qAP4SmO7pB_j0ZuAtH6Gpwg   

Hope to see some of you via the computer screen on Saturday :)

Neighourhood Houses

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Hi Necchi Community, Last night Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a stage 2 round of shutdowns. This time community centres (aka neighbourhood houses) were listed amongst many other community and recreational services being forced to close to the public, as our governments try to contain the spread of coronavirus. Due to this announcement from close of business today and will look to process any refunds/credit for any programs or classes booked for the last week of term 1 and any school holiday activities, upon our return. Any urgent requests or queries please contact manager@necchi.org We understand that these are stressful times and we ask that you have patience with us while we work within government guidelines. Please note there is a community care group starting up in East Coburg. Please visit their Facebook page. If you are experiencing distress in this time here are some support materials from Beyond Blue https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak We will be in touch with updates for the coming weeks and will be guided by the information and directions provided by local health authorities and the World Health Organisation, and its Occupational Health and Safety obligations. From the Necchi Team

Joes Market Garden

Joes Market Garden down on the Merri Creek is doing gangbusters on their pick up food boxes.

Get in on it for $40 you get a whole lot of locally grown goodies, bread  jams etc and you support our small farmers who really need it!

Free

Free cot with mattress, mattress protector and cot sheets. Some paint has worn off at base of legs. Pick up Coburg. 

Text 0415 895 322.

Needed

Does anyone have a keyboard you no longer need—it’s to plug into a 2009 MacBook that is partially functioning, but only a few of the keys still work. 

Thank you ❤️🙏0403 416 172.