What a nice day we've been had today. Hope people had the chance to get out and enjoy it.
Onto Transition Epping info... First we are creating a community garden for refugees to help them out with their seed raising and vegetable growing at the back of the Epping Hub. Transition Epping are running the workshop with funding from the Bendigo Bank. The Community Garden at the Hub will be a kitchen/herb garden for all. This will be from 9am till 2pm on Saturday the 4th of May 2013. The Epping Hub is located at 6 Chester Street, Epping right next to the Uniting Church. Please bring gloves, water, a hat, clothes you don't mind getting soil on and sturdy closed-toe shoes. We will supply plants, expertise (in the form of Cameron Little and others), tools and materials for making the garden bed. Refreshments and lunch provided. Enquiries and RSVP Transition Epping Coordinator: Sandra Nichols 0438415715
Next we also have our new newsletter out! Check it out at: http://eepurl.com/yDhD9
Lucinda Coates a fantastic Transition Epping e-list subscriber is having a permaculture open day for her garden. See the link below. Its open from 9am-3:30pm they day after our Raised beds-making workshop for the Epping Hub. Woah! A really vege-garden weekend all round! http://www.permacultureday.org/event/open-townhouse-garden/
I have finally finished removing the flower-heads from the Transition Epping Roma Street carpark garden's giant perennial basils. Phew! So many flower-heads and had to do it in 2 stages to stop the angry swarm of bees plotting their revenge on me removing one of their local food sources.While I was there it was really interesting to see some of the little organisms using the garden I saw a few pale-flecked garden sunskinks (Lampropholis delicata) basking in the sun as well as some little black native bees (tetragonula and Austroplebeia spp.).
Lastly, we have had a change in our committee, Wendy has decided she will no longer be with us as part of the committee but will try to still come to some events. Transition Epping thanks for all her amazing hard work as part of the committee particularly with looking after the table at our events and doing what she could for the Epping Community Bus and with trying to get a feasability study for some improvements done. Thanks Wendy!!
Think thats all for now and hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend.
Mark, Sandra and the Transition Epping Community.
