To contribute to the working group, please join the email discussion group. The Food Growers Subgroup was bourne out of the idea of getting to know others in our community with similar interests (growing food). We have monthly Growers Gatherings when we visit someone's home, tour the garden, share seeds, seedlings, cuttings, excess produce, delicious food and garden wisdom. We also have several other ideas and projects currently in various stages of development, including a local labelling campaign, tool/skill sharing, working bees, creating a map of underutilised fruit/nut trees, and a living locally challenge. Please add your email address to the box above to recieve invitations and updates from the Food Growers Subgroup. February Growers
Gathering
FEBUARY GROWERS GATHERING - Sunday, 21 Febuary -
6pm
Please join us for our monthy gathering of South Hobart food gardeners. We will be visiting Rebecca's garden (321A Strickland Ave) for our Febuary gathering. Please bring any
excess produce,
seeds, seedlings, stories, etc to share and a plate for our shared dinner. See you there! Fallen Fruit Map for South Hobart? We have talked about creating a "gleaning map" of South Hobart - mapping all of the productive street trees as well as underutilised food trees in people's yards. If you would like to contribute please contact lissa(at)southhobart.org. If you are interested finding out more and other similar initiatives, Fallen Fruit is a group that did something similar in Los Angeles and it has grown from there. Skills and Tools Share List At the Growers Gathering on the weekend, we
thought it would be great to compile a list of resources that can be shared
amongst group members. Millie offered to compile a list that can be posted on
the the Website, please email millie.rooney@gmail.com with a list of
tools and skills that you have to share.
Buy Local Labelling Campaign A working group is developing a project to highlight the
benefits (environmentally and economically) of buying local products from local
suppliers in South Hobart. If you are interested in being part of this group, please
email lissa@southhobart.org or
call 0403222405. Living Locally 7 day challenge Annie had a great idea to get a group of people together to live locally for a
week. The oil drum has a story about some people doing it in Sydney (http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/5412). If you are interested in collaborating with a group of
people who are eating local food, minimising car use, socialising and
sharing thier experience. If you are interested in being involved email lissa(at)southhobart.org with your contact details to be forwarded to Annie. |