Sowing seed or Planting -
Harvest
- 4.3kg tomato
Maintenence
- procured and spread more manure
Planning for The Future -
- Drooled over bareroot fruit tree catalogues
Working for the Future -
- Shuffled the pantry again to fit in all the new preserving
- Reordered the freezer to fit the now 70 kg of various flour types in the thing
- Made spicy Plum sauce (will have to play more with this batch as it wasn't the best result)
- Made Blackberry & Raspberry Jam
Building Community -
- Started PDC at Emerald Community house
- Gave Sourdough Starters talk to Mountain Districts Permaculture group
- Attended Herb Society Meeting
- Attended Holly Hill Community Fireguard monthly weed erradication morning
- Attended ALS get together.. Thanks Tamandco who gave me a lift
Learn a new Skill -
- How to panic silently when a talk you expected just to attract a few people ends up with around 20 eager eyes pointing in your direction
Participant Posts
Remote Treechanger
Friday April 17th
Cockatoo Dreaming
Tuesday April 21st
Sticks and Stones
Monday April 20th
Footprint Reduction in the 'Burbs
Monday April 20th
Garden of Plenty
Thursday April 16th
4 comments:
hi belinda, I am interested to see you have started a PDC at the communtiy house. I would love to hear how it progresses, I would really love it if our community house offered this course, I might see if we can organise a tutor and see if there is enough interest for a class. I was wondering how the hours are organised, do you go once a week, or is it more intensive? Good luck with it anyway, and congratulations on your successful talk, it sounds like it was popular. Cheers Julie
Hi Jules,
Thanks for your congratulations I do appreciate the support.
I am extremely privileged to have access to this PDC in my area.
The community house involved has actually organised government funding to cover at least 75% of the cost so compared to your average PDC it is very affordable, as long as you don't need to take time off work to complete it.
Unlike your average PDC which runs for around 70-75 instructor hours this one is around 140 hours. It runs 1 full week day from April - September with a good collection of of site visits, both suburban homes and more regional locations, that are usually run on a day over the weekend.
Lets just say places in this one are generally quite sought after, we have participants from as far away as Mooney ponds, Brunswick and one very brave soul from Colac who is staying overnight in Melbourne the night before to make it.
Kind Regards
Belinda
If you want more specific information about the course don't hesitate to email me through the email address I have listed in my contact details.
congratulations on starting the pdc, belinda! i'm so happy for you!
sowing/planting:
- keeping up watering to the artichokes, who made a miraculous recovery after the heat
- picked up seedlings from belinda (thank you as always)
working for the future:
- converted two boxes of tomatoes into sauce
- turned grapefruit from a friend into gorgeous booze-smothered concoctions
- joined committee of work-relevant association, volunteered to help organise various events
planning for the future:
- clearing my room organised for this weekend
creating community:
- had a friend stay at my place
- keeping up correspondences
- helped organise and coordinate a friend's birthday dinner
new skill:
- look ma, no scraped knuckles on the mandoline!
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