Author: Darren
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GreenPlan Plant Sale Day – Wollongong
Wollongong City Council ratepayers only may purchase up to 50 plants per property at prices as marked until stocks last. Payment by cash, cheque or EFTPOS (no American Express accepted). A rates notice must be produced when payment made. Venue: Wollongong Botanic Gardens Nursery, Northfields Avenue, Keiraville Bookings not required. For more information, call 4225…
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Garden to Kitchen Network Vegetarian Cooking Workshop – Kiama
The Garden to Kitchen Network meets on the 4th Monday of every month to discuss a range of topics relating to growing and cooking healthy, wholesome food at home. Come along to this months workshop and learn about vegetarian cooking with Adam Guthrie. Venue: North Kiama Neighbour hood Centre, Meehan Drive, Kiama Downs Bookings are…
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Starting a Backyard Veggie Patch Workshop – Shellharbour
Join in this hands-on, practical workshop facilitated by passionate local gardening gurus, and learn about organic gardening principles, building and maintaining a veggie patch, saving seeds and propagation. Bookings are essential – phone 4221 6111. This is a Sustainable Illawarra activity and is open to residents of Wollongong, Shellharbour and Kiama Council areas only.
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Waste Not! Fruit and Veg Swap – Wollongong
Do you have garden surplus? Are you concerned about issues of food quality, sustainability, fairness and waste? Join us! We meet on the 4th Saturday of every month to swap home-grown produce (herbicide/ pesticide free). FairTrade coffee and sweets will also be available for purchase. Bookings not required. For more information phone 4244 0345. This…
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Attracting Native Birds to your Garden Workshop – Shellharbour
Come to this free, interactive workshop and learn more about our local native birds and how we can encourage them to visit our gardens. The workshop is run by Holly Parsons of Birds in Backyards and Pete Nolan from Habitat Ponds. Bookings are essential – phone 4221 6111. This is a Sustainable Illawarra activity and…
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350.org Illawarra Event at Futureworld
[Futureworld Eco-Technology Centre](http://www.futureworld.org.au/) is having an open day on Saturday the 24th of October as part of the [350 Global Day of Climate action](http://www.350.org/). On this day over 2000 events will be hosted in over 150 countries to lend community support to the idea that 350ppm CO2 levels is the line in the sand as…
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Video: The Permaculture Concept – Bill Mollison
This is a post I wrote a while ago on my personal blog, but I think it’s really appropriate here. Plus I still don’t have much time to post anything new yet. Don’t you hate it when you know you’ve seen something in a video (say, Bill Mollison talking about planting in guilds), but you…
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Book Giveaway – Choosing Eden
With all the cleaning, packing, and general-getting-ready for our upcoming move to Jamberoo, I haven’t had much time to post anything here on Green-Change. Sorry about that! To keep things ticking over a bit in my virtual absence, I’ll do a few giveaways over coming weeks. The first one is the book “Choosing Eden”, by…
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A Sneak Peek At Our New House
Settlement on our new house purchase won’t be until October 30, so we still have about 5 weeks to go before we pick up the keys. I can’t wait! Meanwhile, we have a ton of work to do on our current house to get it ready for sale. The big red dust storm didn’t help…
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Jamberoo Community Growers – A Successful Launch!
Yesterday’s launch of the Jamberoo Community Growers was very successful. The guest speakers were great – both very knowledgeable, and both very interesting as well. The kids had a great time too. We had planned some organised activities for the kids, but our kids leader was called away at the last minute and wasn’t able…