NewsletterDon 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.
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!
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 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
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’.
NewsletterDon 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.
NewsletterDon Open Gardens, Plant Fair, Seed Packing
Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Autumn Plant Fair. We gather to pack seeds and share an afternoon tea and plant knowledge. Nell’s garden is just west of Bellingen.
Bring donations of saved dried seeds for packing.
Bring donations of seedlings for potting up.
Bellingen Seed Savers presents seeds and plants at a stall at the Bellingen Autumn Plant Fair. Locally adapted edible plants and seeds for sale. Perfect timing for your winter 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 in Bellingen on Saturday September 9th. 8am – 2pm but get there early. The plants sell quick!
NewsletterDon Workshop / Learning Event
In airconditioned comfort:
Open Q & A forum for your gardening questions.
Jeff will give us a run through of the basics of seed saving.
Seed packing is later in Feb in preparation for the Autumn Plant Fair.
NewsletterDon Workshop / Learning Event
Well known garden writer Phil Dudman (ABC Organic Magazine) will to talk to us at 1.30PM on Saturday, December 16.
UPDATED – Shared lunch from noon. Presentation from 1.30pm.
Topic: Presenting a class on:
Pruning and propagating popular fruit trees for our part of the world
There will be time for general questions as well.
Where: At John and Carol’s Fernmount Food Forest.
Cost – $5.00 for BSS members, $10 for people new to BSS – please bring cash on the day.
Book now:
Leela O’Callaghan / gardenvisits@bellingenseedsavers.com or phone 0417 536 490
If we have vacancies we will invite non-members so please book early.