Deep Green Permaculture

We’ll be taking part in the Darebin Backyard Harvest Festival 2012

Here are the details of the event from the City of Darebin –  Backyard Harvest Festival web page:

If you’re trying to figure out which garden in the Festival Program is my one, we’re listed as follows:

Date: Sunday 25 November

Time: 10:00am-11:00am

Location: Preston (Booking required)

You’ll be amazed at the diversity of food producing plants in this high density garden – from vines to stone fruits, berries, herbs and vegetables. The garden is based on the Permaculture principle of creating synergistic relationships between garden elements. What appears to be a verdant tumble of vegetation is actually strategic placement to create and enhance the microclimate and growing conditions for each food plant. This is also an effective pest control technique resulting in an organic garden which produces a wonderful abundance of food.

For everyone who’se been wanting to learn more about forest gardening and food forest design, I’ll also be running a workshop on Food Forest Gardening & Permaculture:

Date: Sunday 11 November

Time: 1‐2:30pm

Location: Northcote Library Food Garden, 32 ‐ 38 Separation St (Booking required)

Food Forest Gardening and Permaculture Workshop

Learn how to design and build an abundant food forest garden using Permaculture principles. Food forest gardens integrate fruit trees, seasonal and perennial vegetables, berries, herbs, climbers and ground cover plants to create a thriving ecosystem. The result is maximum productivity for minimum work.

I’ll be running some gardening workshops at Bulleen Art & Garden in the next few months – see the whole range of classes available and book online here – http://baag.cart.net.au/store/Classes/

Here are the three workshops I’ll be running:

No-Dig Gardening Workshop

Price: AUD $30.00

A no-dig garden can practically be built anywhere that has some sunshine and it really doesn’t involve any digging! This hands-on workshop will demonstrate the steps involved, the materials used and then how to actually plant into it. You CAN have a vegie patch without breaking your back!

Suitable for all wishing to start up a new vegie bed.

SATURDAY 18th AUGUST, 10.00am – 12noon

Edible Forest Gardening

Price: AUD $30.00

Ever wondered how forests grow by themselves without any mowing, spraying, digging or weeding, while your vegie patch takes so much work? Imagine if you could build a forest with just edible plants and trees? Well, you can. Learn how to construct one of the most productive edible garden system that takes the least work to maintain, is naturally pest and disease resistant, and can be built in backyards of any size. Angelo of Deep Green Permaculture runs Melbourne’s first demonstration edible forest garden, and can show you how to maximise the productivity of your backyard through forest gardening by turning your garden into a thriving, productive, living ecosystem brimming with produce.

Suitable for gardeners with some basic experience

THURSDAY 13th SEPTEMBER, 7pm-9pm

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Book before August 13th for the discounted price shown

Garden Nasties – Controlling them Naturally

Price: AUD $25.00

Angelo of Deep Green Permaculture knows about the garden pests and diseases that plague local gardens. Sorting out which is friend and which is foe and keeping them under control, without resorting to toxic and harmful chemicals is what Angelo can show you during this class. Recipes to make your own using common household items, integrated pest management systems and tactics to employ to outwit the nasties is what this class is all about.

Suitable for beginners to more experienced gardeners

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Book before October 29th for the discounted price shown

THURSDAY 29th NOVEMBER, 7pm-9pm

We’ll be taking part in the Darebin Homemade Food & Wine Festival 2012,  a celebration of food traditions and sustainable food that will culminate on Saturday 19 May at Preston City Hall, 284 Gower Street, Preston between 1pm & 4pm., and I’ll be presenting the following sesson:

Seminar:  ’What is Permaculture? And what has it got to do with Sustainable Food?’

Date:  Saturday 19 May

Time:  3pm-3:30pm

Location:  Preston City Hall, 284 Gower Street, Preston

Various workshops and special events will also be held from the 16th-19th May, leading up to the main event on Saturday. You can view and register for these here.

One of these events will features produce from my garden too!

Asian Style Food Preserving Workshop with Charlie Si

Would you like to learn more about making your own preserves? In this intimate workshop, Charlie Si will demonstrate tips and techniques for Asian style food preserving using produce from Angelo Eliades’s well-known and abundant permaculture garden. Presented by Darebin Ethnic Communities Council in partnership with Darebin City Council as part of the Darebin Backyard Harvest Festival.

Wednesday 16 May 4pm-5pm Intercultural Centre (Kitchen) 59a Roseberry Ave, Preston FREE (but registrations are essential)

We’ll be taking part in the 2012 CERES Autumn Harvest Festival this year, which will be run on Saturday 31 March 2012, 9:00am – 3:00pm at CERES, and I’ll be presenting the following sesson:

Community+Food+Forests with Angelo from Deep Green Permaculture 3:00pm | FREE in Honey Lane Permaculture food forests are one of the most highly productive and sustainable food production systems. Learn how community food forests in urban areas can revolutionise food production and supply in the cities, and the benefits they can deliver to local communities and the environment.   Hear about the recent successes of newly created local community forests and exciting upcoming community food forest projects in the local area.   www.deepgreenpermaculture.com

Location: CERES Community Environment Park, Cnr Roberts and Stewart Streets, Brunswick East, Victoria, 3057

In collaboration with VEG (Very Edible Gardens) we will be running a course dedicated to Edible Forest Gardens or Food Forests.

Over four hours we will visit two edible forest gardens and go through the design principles behind them.

You’ll learn how we create assemblies of food and support plants modelled on natural forests to provide a fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit all from the same garden.

Date: Saturday 14th April 2012

Time: 10:00 am – 02:00 pm

Price: $55 /$45 Concession. BYO lunch.

Location: Northcote, Victoria, Australia – exact address will be emailed in the week before the course.

Link to the online web registration at the VEG website here.

Community + Food + Forest

With a push within the Darebin Environmental Community for a Food Forest to complement the Northcote Library Food Garden, interested locals and others are invited to join a discussion and site visit to plan for an approach to Council.

Time: 2.30pm for registration and tour for 3pm to start

Where: Northcote Library Food garden, 32-38 Separation St, Northcote.

Duration :  1 ½ hours. Afternoon tea provided.

RSVP required, Maximum 30 people, Email : deepgreenpermaculture@gmail.com

or contact John on 0449 508 318 or Charlie on 0403216252 for further information.

Collaborating Groups: Heritage Fruit Society, Transition Darebin, Permaculture Inner North, Friends of Herring Island,  Deep Green Permaculture

I’ll be presenting a session at this event:

Darebin Community and Kite Festival 2012 - see here

Date: Sunday, 19 February 2012

Location: All Nations Park, Northcote, Melbourne

There will be lots of events on the day, including several speakers. I’ll be presenting the session “My Backyard Food Forest” in the Sustainable Living (SL) Village area, where there will be lots of other speakers too, see below:

 

SUSTAINABLE LIVING VILLAGE

Visit the Sustainable Living Village and learn how to create a better, cleaner, greener world. Information, giveaways and presentations in the Speakers Corner. We’re bringing you a food swap from 11-1pm so bring all the lovely excess garden surplus such as fruit, vegetables, seeds, gardening tips and stories.

11:00am – Food Swap

2:00pm – “My Waste Free Month” with Kathy Brunning

2:30pm - “My Energy Efficient Home” with Jeremy Critchett

3:00pm – “My Backyard Food Forest” with Angelo Eliades

3:30pm – Sustainable Gardening – Made Easy and Fun

Here are the links to the festival program and the festival map at the Darebin City Council web site.

We’ll be taking part in the Sustainable Living Festival this year, and we’ll be running a local event workshop:

Urban Permaculture in Action

Learn how to design and build an urban backyard food forest. See how a conventional backyard was transformed three years ago into a productive, biodiverse urban food forest using Permaculture Principles – with more than 30 fruit trees, berries, annuals & perennials, companion plants & many others!

Date : Sunday 12 February 2012

Sessions : 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm or 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Location : Preston, VIC, Australia

To register or to find out more, please email: deepgreenpermaculture@gmail.com 

We’ll be running an Irrigation Installation Workshop at the Northcote Library Food Garden on Sun 11th December 2011.

See the advertisement for the event below:

Dear Gardeners and Friends,

 

NO MORE TWIST & BEND!!

Next Sunday December 11, 1pm to 5 pm, Angelo Eliades will run an irrigation system installation workshop in Northcote Library Food Garden and will facilitate the installation of the new system in the garden.

We would like as many helpers as possible to assist with the installation.  We’ll divide into four groups, each guided by a facilitator, to tackle different parts of the garden.  A spade, gloves and a sunhat may be useful!

Join us for all or part of the day and learn skills easily transferrable to the home garden (just in time for the heat of Summer!)

The garden will host a casual end of year celebration at day’s end, so please bring a plate to share.

Please RSVP via this email address to help with organization of the day – northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com

 

Kind Regards,

NLFG Management Committee

We’ll be running one of the Edible Garden Workshops at the South Melbourne Commons Opening Celebration on Sat 10th December 2011.

See the advertisement for the event below:

Greetings Everyone,

You are invited to the Opening Celebration of the South Melbourne Commons on Saturday 10th December between 10am – 4pm  Entry is free.  Please see our attached invitation.
There will be edible garden workshops on the day:

• 10.30 – 11.15am     Tea & Herbs Garden with Karen Sutherland
• 1.00  - 1.45pm       Salad Greens Garden with Seila Hierk, (Commons Garden Coordinator)
• 2.00 – 2.45pm       Berries and Fruit Self Sufficiency woth Angelo Eliades
• 3.00  - 3.30pm      Composting with Sandra Pullman

We are celebrating our opening with a Christmas themed launch on Saturday December 10th from 10AM to 4PM.

Father Bob Maguire will speak, officially welcoming The Commons to the space and our award winning sustainable café is putting on a BBQ.  Our launch will showcase all the fabulous initiatives we have going on here at The Commons. There will be tours of our edible Permaculture gardens, the new organic grocer, the café will host foodie displays, a cooking demonstration and we will host tours of the building that has experienced a real transformation mostly due to the hard work and dedication of our fantastic volunteers.  Apples and Jam will also be holding events for children and music will be provided by local high school students and choirs.

The South Melbourne Commons (The Commons) is a unique urban development comprised of public open space, community facilities and retail orientated social enterprises on the site of the old Galilee School on the corner of Bank and Montague Street, South Melbourne. As The Commons is a joint initiative of Friends of the Earth and the Father Bob Maguire Foundation, our vision encapsulates the dynamic social and environmental qualities of both organizations.

The Commons is comprised of a food co-op known as ‘The Pantry’ where customers can purchase local and organic groceries. Apples and Jams a inspiring space for children that facilitate children’s parties, art classes, play groups and garden club.  A café run by Original Foods, an award winning sustainable caterer.  A heritage listed event space which has been hired out for events such as community group celebrations and weddings.  We are currently coordinating an event calendar because the room will be used by dance groups, drama troupes and independent pilates, yoga and wellness instructors holding classes for the public.  Soon you will be able to have your children looked after by Apples and Jam,  take a yoga or other wellness class, have a coffee and then pick up your weekly groceries.  Alternatively, you can come to gardens with a book and just enjoy the gardens.

The aim of The Commons is to:
1. Establish a secure and enjoyable urban space for the Port Phillip community to enjoy;
2. Establish facilities where people can learn how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and access products and services to help reduce their ecological impact;
3. Improve the health & well being of local disadvantaged people through creative social ventures;
4. Provide meeting spaces, offices and function areas for local community groups to use for their operations, public engagement and fundraising; &
5. Increase the resources and capacity of local groups providing services to the community.

The Commons and our launch will explore all aspects of conscious lifestyle choices. We encourage the community to come learn, enjoy and participate in our event who’s aim is to encourage the community to have fun and be more environmentally and socially conscious consumers.

Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Melbourne-Commons/190646834293848
And visit our website at http://commons.org.au/

Developed by Friends of the Earth and supported by Father Bob Maguire Foundation along with the Victorian Government Sustainability Fund, managed by Sustainability Victoria.

The South Melbourne Commons is located in the beautiful old Catholic primary school, next to St. Peter and Paul’s Church.

We’ll be taking part in the Darebin Backyard Harvest Festival this year – the event will run during the second half of November.

As part of this event, our open day and garden tour will be on Sunday 13th November at 12 noon – 1:30pm.

Gardening Workshops and Backyard Harvest Festival 

The Backyard Harvest Festival is back – showcasing abundant food gardens in the prime growing season.

Learn from local Darebin experts from a diversity of cultures. Visit home, school and community gardens.

Get inspired to grow even more food this Spring!

The Backyard Harvest Festival is delivered in partnership by Darebin Ethnic Communities Council (DECC) and Darebin Council.

 

 Backyard Harvest Festival Open Gardens

12-27 November 2011

See the program here

RSVP to Tina on 8470 8673

Date : Sunday 27 November 2011

Time : 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Location : Preston, VIC, Australia

Deep Green Permaculture has created Melbourne’s first demonstration urban Permaculture food forest, and we run regular tours and workshops for general public.

See how a conventional backyard was transformed three years ago into a productive, biodiverse urban food forest using Permaculture Principles – with more than 30 fruit trees, berries, annuals & perennials, companion plants & many others!

To register or to find out more, please email: deepgreenpermaculture@gmail.com

I’ll be presenting a session on Food Forest Design and Earth Stewardship at the following event:

The 2011 South East Bioregional Permaculture Conference in Melbourne

Workshops, speakers, site tours, party, film screening

Friday 30th September – Sunday 2nd October

Venue: South Melbourne Commons, cnr Bank & Montague Sts, South Melbourne.

It is with great excitment that we can tell you that tickets are now on sale for the 2011 South East Australian Bioregional Permaculture Conference in Melbourne. Ticket sales were meant to close today, Friday 23 September, but have been extended until Tuesday 27 September.

The conference is organised by Permaculture Melbourne, representing its associated local permaculture groups. The conference is open to all interested in permaculture, the Transition Town movement or sustainability.

Please note the Saturday Night event with David Holmgren and Anima Mundi is a separate ticket and we will be promoting this as a single event.  Many may be interested in that option.

See the website for details: http://www.permaculturemelbourne.org.au/permie-conference-2011.html

 

I’ll be presenting a session on Food Forests at this event – The Northcote Library Food Garden’s Official Launch and Garden Party – see here

There will be many events on the day, see details in advertisement below:

The Northcote Library Food Garden’s

Official Launch and Garden Party

Saturday September 3rd from 11am

Please come and celebrate the opening of Northcote’s newest community garden with us.

• Melbourne Ukulele Kollective play from 11am.

• Food Swap 11am – 12pm. Participate in the Urban Harvest swap. Bring your excess garden produce and swap it for something you don’t have!

• Official Launch – 11.15am. Join Cr Diana Asmar, Mayor of Darebin, as she launches the garden, the 2011/2012 Backyard Harvest Festival and Darebin’s Sustainable Food and Gardening guides.

• Garden Tour and Talk – 11. 45am. Join local permaculturalist and Food Forest expert, Angelo Eliades, to reflect on the 2011 International Year of Forests and the role that Urban Food Forests can play in local food production.

• Children’s Gardening Workshop – 12.15pm. Plant a sunflower, pot your own seedling to take home, visit our garden’s busiest workers, the earthworms, and create some garden art.

• Free Gardening Workshops

• 12.45pm – Seasonal Planting & Preparation Find out what to plant and how to prepare your garden beds for the Spring season.

• 1.15pm – Fruit Tree Care Yellow leaves? Creepy-crawlies? Low production? Find out how to keep your fruit trees healthy and productive throughout Spring and Summer.

We would appreciate a RSVP to the Children’s Gardening Activities and Workshops.

Please email northcotelibraryfoodgarden@gmail.com with your name and preferred activity.

Date : Sunday May 29th, 2011

Time : 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Location : Preston, VIC 3072

Deep Green Permaculture has created Melbourne’s first demonstration urban Permaculture food forest, and we run many regular tours and workshops for general public.

See how a conventional backyard was transformed two and a half years ago into a productive, biodiverse urban food forest using Permaculture Principles – with more than 30 fruit trees, berries, annuals & perennials, companion plants & many others!

Due to popular demand we’re running one extra garden tour before winter!

 To register or to find out more, please email: deepgreenpermaculture@gmail.com

I’ll be presenting a sesson at this event – Sustainable Food Workshop @ Darebin Council – see here

There are many great workshops being run as part of the Sustainable Homes and Communities Program, see details in advertisement below:

Sustainable Homes and Communities Program – Get Involved!

This is a great new FREE program for households and community groups.

The program kicks off on 12 May with the first community workshop of the year – Sustainable Food. The evening starts at 6.45pm with snacks, then the workshop runs from 7-9pm with great speakers and activities. Places are limited though, so register now!

We also have other workshops being run across the year including energy, gardening and waste. And the great news is that workshops will be running until 2013!

FREE environmental workshops, prizes and snacks

• Expert presenters and local stories
• Learn practical ways to save money by reducing your household bills
• Learn how to create a more sustainable home and community
• Meet like-minded local people

Register now at:
www.sustainablecommunities.vic.gov.au
or by calling 8470 8373.