Visit to Green Patch Organic Seeds Open Day, Taree

Open Gardens, Workshop / Learning Event

We will be carpooling to this event, to arrive in time for the Farm Tour at 10am. Please RSVP if you would like to be included in the carpool, otherwise, see you there!

Entry: FREE
Tea & Coffee Provided    

Where:  Greenpatch Organic Seeds, 109 Old Bar Rd, Glenthorne, NSW 2430
Turn off the Pacific Highway at the Taree South exit taking the Old Bar exit and follow Old Bar Road for 900 metres.  The property is on the left hand side.

Includes:

  • See where we grow over 200 varieties of seeds and 500 varieties of nursery plants propagated onsite.
  • Take advantage of over 70 years horticultural experience on the day.
  • Self Guided Tour. An excellent experience plus an opportunity to take a rest and enjoy the gardens we have developed.

10am – Farm Tour including orchards, herb & flower gardens, nursery production & vegetable seed cropping.

11am – Bee keeping. Anna & Sven from Amber Drop Honey are local environmentally minded bee keepers passionate to share their wisdom. Workshop information is to be confirmed.

12pm – Lunch will be served for a gold coin donation. BBQ – German Sausages, Vegetarian options & Salad. Tea & Coffee provided. Enjoy the music from ‘Dingo Creek String Band’

12.45pm – 2pm Plant Propagation workshop covering the basics of Seed Raising, Divisions & Cuttings. Neville a horticulturalist has been propagating plants in a commercial setting since the late 1970’s so he will be teaching you from his own experiences.

All Day – The nursery and shop will be open from 10am to 2pm if you would like to purchase seeds and plants or seek gardening advice.

Biocast+ with Lee Fieldhouse from Islands in the Stream will also be available all day with his wealth of knowledge. He will also have his Biocast+ products available on the day.

Coming? RSVP to carpool there
Please let us know in the message box:
if you would like a lift, or if you are able to offer a lift.
How many spare seats you have to offer.
Where you are coming from.

Seed Labelling at John and Carol’s

Plant Fair, Seed Packing

The seeds have been prepared and packed into bags, now they need to be put into packets and labelled. Jeff has been super-busy preparing labels for us. All we need to do is turn up spend an hour or so putting bagged seeds into packets and sticking labels on.

Bring a snack plate for this event. The plan is to have a quick eat and then a short ‘many hands light work’ labelling session of about an hour – hour and a half. We have around 300 packets to label. It will go quickly.

Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Spring Plant Fair! Saturday September 8.

Bellingen Seed Savers at the 2018 Spring Plant Fair

Plant Fair

Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Spring Plant Fair. Locally adapted edible plants and seeds for sale. Perfect timing for your spring vegie gardening. And the famous Seed Saver raffle. We can almost guarantee the prize will contain something edible you’ve never laid eyes on before!

Come on down. Market Park (Corner Church and Park Streets) in Bellingen on Saturday September 8th. 8am – 2pm but get there early. The plants sell quick!

Spring is the ideal time to make those planting additions to your garden, orchard or farm!

The Bellingen Spring Plant Fair features over 70 plant nursery stalls, with a huge variety of tropical and sub-tropical, native, exotic or food-bearing plants, garden supplies, and plenty of expert horticultural advice available.

Workshops, activities with undercover seating, information stalls from local organisations, fine food, musicians, free entry, lots of bargains and the chance to win a barrow full of plants donated by the stallholders, make this a great day out for garden lovers.

The Spring Plant Fair is a fundraiser for the Bellingen Environment Centre and sponsored by the Bellingen Community Markets.

Seed Packing at John’s for the Spring Plant Fair

Plant Fair, Seed Packing

Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Spring Plant Fair (Saturday September 8). We gather to pack seeds and share lunch and plant knowledge. John’s garden is in Fernmount just east of Bellingen.

A bonus of helping pack seeds is taking home extras for your garden.

Bring donations of saved dried seeds for packing ~ labelled is very helpful!
Bring donations of seedlings for potting up.

Garden Visit to Tim’s new Food Forest in Fernmount

Open Gardens

More than meets the eye in this new Fernmount garden:

Tim Hill and his growing family have been living in what was a vacant block for just over a year now, some of you may be familiar with it as the former ‘Secret Garden’ nursery. Lots of planning, passion and effort has netted him a food forest, jumping out of the ground out and proud, in the front yard. An unorthodox style, but then a little chaos always brings opportunity.

Around the back there is more experimentation and innovation with livestock and microclimates; endless fun and education for his kids.

Join us for lunch in a young garden full of vigour and promise. See what’s been happening so far on the FB page Secret Garden Tiny Farm

You will need to bring a chair if you would like something to sit on other than the ground!

Garden Visit to David Pepper’s food forest garden in Gleniffer

Open Gardens

Please arrive by 11am. A little garden tour of the maturing food forest will happen at some point during the day.

This is David Pepper’s annual Winter Solstice celebration for seed savers AND the wider community. The early part of the day will be seed savers and as the day moves on, more people will arrive to celebrate. You are welcome to stay as long as you want – the celebrations often go on well into the night.

There will be a small ritual to honour Gaia and the winter solstice. You are welcome to join David in sacrificing your summer hat or similar into the fire.

Nambucca Valley Aquaponics tour

Open Gardens

Nambucca Valley Aquaponics is a fairly new enterprise run by Luke Tutt and dad on the family farm in Congarinni. A local chef by trade, Luke has embarked on growing the goodies himself, foodbox distributions and exploring various farm multifuctions and tourism attractions.

We will have a tour with him at 11am, then travel on to Michelle Morozumi’s in Valla for lunch
Bring lunch to share, chair mug etc

Debbie’s Garden in Brierfield

Open Gardens

 

Morning Tea at “Nemoral” Brierfield

This month’s Seed Saver garden visit is to new member Debbie Kent’s property just outside Bellingen. Debbie and her partner Greg are relatively new to the area having moved from Sydney to Brierfield just over 4 years ago after building their “forever home”. The property and home are called “Nemoral” which means living in or amongst a forest. The home is surrounded by 6 hectares of tall eucalyptus forest which, given the current bushfire regulations, means a number of restrictions on what you can build and how you manage the site. But living in a forest is what they wanted and they were prepared to go the extra yards associated with their choice. So, if you have ever wondered what it would be like to live within a forest you are welcome to come and enjoy morning tea at Nemoral on Sunday 22nd April. Starting at 9:30am and finishing at noon the visit will begin with a brief overview of the gardens followed by questions over morning tea. We will then have a relaxed stroll around the area – viewing vegetable patch, orchards and the extensive terraces of native plants – which has been described as ‘eye popping’.

Seed Labelling at John and Carol’s

Plant Fair, Seed Packing

The seeds have been prepared and packed into bags, now they need to be put into packets and labelled. Jeff has been super-busy preparing labels for us. All we need to do is turn up spend an hour or so putting bagged seeds into packets and sticking labels on.

No need to bring a plate for this event. The plan is for a short ‘many hands light work’ labelling session of about an hour – hour and a half.

Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Autumn Plant Fair THIS WEEKEND! March 10.

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