Seed preparation for Autumn Plant Fair

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We’re gearing up already for the Autumn Plant Fair. Growers will congregate bringing little miracles – locally grown, organic vegetable seed. Maybe you’ve got something special – a bumper pumpkin, a bomb-proof tomato – share it with us.

 

We will process seed together, and if you don’t know how to thresh, winnow, shuck or shell, come along anyway and by the end of the day you probably will.

 

Can’t make it but have seed to donate? Label it with variety, characteristics, date of harvest, your locality, and where you sourced the seed from, and contact Nick (0474 114 773) or Jeff (0438 655 728) to arrange collection.

 

Cloudy Cauldron Farm

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Hopefully the Dorrigo mountain will offer a cool retreat, and certainly Jodi and Michael will be interesting hosts. Jodi was brought up on a conventional farm – she knows how to read a paddock – and from there has evolved into organics, permaculture, cell grazing, syntropics…whatever you want to call it, we’re in for a ride.

 

 Bring a chair and plate to share for lunch. Carpooling is recommended – please advise if you need or can offer a lift.

Fernmount festivities

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Catch up for a chat, or join an activity.

There’s a full program: the crew from our Norfolk Island tour will show and tell, Chris and Gillian will roast home-grown coffee, and of course there’s the amazing food forest to wander through.

Bring a chair, and a plate to share for lunch.

Carpooling is encouraged – please tell us on the RSVP if you can offer or would like a lift.

Nick’s water workshop, Repton

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Want to talk about water? Then you’ve come to the right place.

That is, when you turn up to Nicks water workshop! Where you can see tanks, swales, ponds, drip-catch beds, adjustable shade, grey water diversion and more.

Bring a chair and a plate to share for lunch. No dogs please. Carpooling is encouraged – please tell us on the RSVP if you can offer or would like a lift.

 

How to grow food workshop, Bellingen

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You asked for it – “I want to learn more about how to grow food”, so Bellingen Seedsavers will deliver.

In this first workshop, Jeff will cover propagation from seed and cuttings. Nick will look at style, soil and light.

Be prepared to get your hands dirty! Bring a chair, plate to share for lunch, and sun protection.

 

RSVP below for details. Carpooling is encouraged, so note on the RSVP if you need a lift/ can offer one.

 

Plant fair seed processing and EpicEarth garden tour

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We’ve lined up a seriously seed-centred gathering, with three-part agenda as follows:

 

  1. Seed processing for plant fair.

Bring in any A-grade, labelled heirloom seed you’ve collected for processing, sorting and packaging, in preparation for the Spring Plant Fair. Don’t have any seed? Come in anyway to help, or to learn about handling seed.

 

Have seed but can’t make it? Contact Jeff (phone 0438 655 728, email seeds@bellingenseedsavers.com) or Nick (phone 0474 114 773, email mail@bellingenpermaculture.com.au).

 

  1. Seed collecting for Ian’s wild experiment!

Bring in your B-grade, crossed, old or otherwise surplus vegetable seed. Ian wants to put together everything he can get from as many sources as possible, plant it out and see what happens! Maybe some super-resilient varieties will emerge, and if they do, Ian will distribute these back into the community.       

 

Have seed but can’t make it? Contact Jeff (phone 0438 655 728, email seeds@bellingenseedsavers.com) or Nick (phone 0474 114 773, email mail@bellingenpermaculture.com.au).

 

  1. Tour of Ian’s Garden

A number of Seedsavers highly recommend Ian EpicEarth as a teacher and soil consultant. He’s put together an impressive garden in three years, and will show us around. For more about Ian, check www.thegourmetgarden.school or on intagram @thegourmetgardenschool.

 

 

 

RSVP and troubleshooting:

 

RSVP by clicking the link below. When you’ve filled the form and submitted, you should receive confirmation and the address after a few minutes.

If you don’t receive confirmation, check your spam box and if the confirmation is there, mark it “not spam”.

Done all that and still nothing from us? Email Nick at mail@bellingenpermaculture.com.au and you should get that address within a day or two.

Still nothing after that? Keep trying! We will to get you there! Ring Nick at 0474 114 773. Good luck!   

Visit Vivienne’s and Paul’s garden, Bellingen

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Paul and Vivienne are hosting us this time at their place a few minutes out of town. They are growing food and planting trees after starting from scratch, learning along the way. Here is what Paul had to say:

When we arrived seven years ago we really didn’t have a clue about how to start from a bare one Hectare paddock. We started to grow our paddock into a comfy home. And we had a lot of ideas about growing some food and propagating our plants to turn our paddock into a garden and forest for us and the animals. Just two crazy kids with a dream and a 15-foot caravan.

If you RSVP for this event, an email (containing directions) will be sent to the email address you provide on the RSVP form. If you do not receive an email, please check your junk mail folder.

 

Winter Solstice in Gleniffer with David Pepper

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It’s that time of year again – exactly halfway through according to the sun.

Join the Bellingen Seedsavers in a feast (bring a plate to share), a walk around an interesting food forest garden, with an interesting guide (Sir David Pepper himself).

 

Please bring any seeds you have saved for sharing.

 

If you RSVP for this event, an email (containing directions) will be sent to the email address you provide on the RSVP form. If you do not receive an email, please check your junk mail folder.

 

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