TTKD Nov 2013 meeting: Sustainable Local Food

TTKD Nov 2013 meeting.pdf

TTKD July 13 Meeting: Edible Yards with Sarah Wesche

TTKD July 2013 Meeting - Edible Yards with Sarah Wesche by TransitionKenmore

Thursday July 18

 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start 

 Kenmore Library Meeting Room

As usual the meeting will be followed by supper and conversation. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share (preferably locally produced or homemade!). No need to RSVP.

TTKD April meeting- Permaculture: Sustainable Food

Transition Kenmore at the Moggill Markets

Some pictures of Transition Town Kenmore's successful stall at last weekends Moggill Markets.

Photos and captions by Gary

The Stall

These look interesting

Buying some plants

Having a chat

See you there again soon!

Vera Street Community Garden Workshop: Building the Soil, Preventing Pests

Sunday 23 October 2011, 1.30 to 3.30pm


You are invited to the final of Vera Street Community Garden’s three-part series of permaculture-based workshops. This month’s workshop will cover improving the soil in your garden to promote healthy plants, prevent pest and predator problems and control weeds. There will be guidance on composting and recycling in your garden.

Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members (includes membership if desired).
RSVP: by email needarts@tpg.com.au, or call Gillian on 3871 3139 (after hours).

Hands-on workshop! Please wear covered shoes and a hat.
Proudly Supported by The Lord Mayors Suburban Initiative Fund and The Councillor for Toowong Ward

http://www.verastreetgarden.org/

TTKD May Meeting - Permablitz updates and future ideas plus a general gardening discussion

At our May meeting we will get an update on the vege gardens that TTKD permablitzed in 2009 and 2010. We will hear from Louise Orr, Brenda Whybrow and Carol Shantal about what worked, what didn’t and what’s happening now in their gardens.

It would be great to start thinking about doing some more permablitzes soon!

We will also have a general group discussion about gardening in our community. Have a think about what you have grown well, what you have tried to grow but haven’t been able to and what you would like to grow but don’t even know where to start!

When: Wednesday 18 May, 2011
Where: Kenmore Library
Time: 7:30pm

Remember we are at a new venue: Kenmore Library at the Kenmore Village Shopping centre.

Here's the details for getting in:
Use the After Hours Lift Entrance on the ground floor. It’s under the library, right by the car park, behind the library’s main escalator entrance. Someone will be there to take you up to the meeting room. If you arrive late and there is no one there please press the buzzer for meeting room 3 and someone will come down and let you in.

Esacalating food prices? Plant some Seeds!

Escalating food prices are a great impetus for us to take some steps towards helping ourselves by having some food in the garden. Its easy, fun and addictive. Just watch those seeds sprout!

We will be having seedlings for sale at our stall at the Moggill markets on Feb 19th, so if you any to spare & share please bring them along or contact Carol cshantal@gmail.com

One of our TT folk, Laura Willet, has taken the plunge and shares the following:

Some simple tips for growing your own

When sowing seed, add 1 teaspoon of epsom salts to the watering can.
This gives the seeds a growing boost. Save those cardboard egg cartons for sowing your seeds.

Save your own seeds. “The Seed Savers Handbook” - Michael & Jude Fanton, is a handy tool.

Save, share and swap seeds with family, friends and neighbours. How many of us throw out or compost seeds from pumpkins, pawpaws, tomatoes, cucumber, to name a few?

Join BOGI - Brisbane Organic Growers Inc. BOGI meets on the 1st Thurdsay of every month at the Peace Hall, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor. Ph: 33573171; www.bogi.org.au
This is a great organization offering organic seeds, gardening books for loan and sale at cheap prices. Guest speakers, every month, speak on different topics, which certainly gets one thinking. Members are very friendly and helpful. Meet some long time members who have been gardening and growing their own for years, and also teaching others. The monthly newsletter is a great source of information and a very good read.

Join a community garden. (Yes Laura, we have been trying to get one locally for quite some time!- Carol)
The BCC website has links to various groups throughout Brisbane. There may be one just around the corner from your place. Like minded people, who are friendly and only too willing to share their knowledge and experiences.

BCC holds free workshops throughout the year on a variety of topics. Composting, worm farming, keeping chickens, growing organically, to name a few. Your local library will have brochures giving dates and venues.

It is very satisfying watching seed you have planted, emerge from the soil and grow into a plant. It is even more satisfying to eat your own, self grown produce.

More importantly, just have a go.
We all start somewhere. Not one of us is born an expert.