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Monday, 01 March 2010 10:18 |
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We had a great time at the Sustainable Living Festival the weekend of February 20-21 down at Federation Square. We gave packed-out talks and workshops on "The Power of Chook," "Drought Proofing your Backyard," "Green Smoothies from Wild Edibles," "Why Grow Food at Home," and "Urban Permaculture Design in Melbourne." Thanks to all who came along to our talks and chatted with us at the stall, and congratulations to Claire of Pahran who was the delighted winner of our worm farm competition!
Dan chatting with a passerby on top of one of our new cypress beds
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 08:50 |
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Very Edible Gardens is considering employing an administrative assistant on a casual basis, starting at one day a week. We're after someone who can simultaneously reply to emails, answer the phone enthusiastically, put together quotes, and help organise our work schedules ;-). An interest in permaculture and food gardening is a plus, but much more important is administrative and organisational competence. If you are interested please send through your cv and we'll go from there. Oh, you should be able to type a lot faster than us. The work will be located at our Fitzroy office with the future possibility of working from home. |
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Friday, 13 November 2009 15:52 |
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Like to plan ahead? Well, now you can with the new 2010 Permaculture Diary and Calendar. A year of permaculture inspiration with a different design principle featured each month. Put together by our good friends Michele Margolis and David Arnold. (And featuring a page on VEG.) You can click to buy them online right here.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 10:46 |
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Here's some photos from last month's afternoon Edible Weeds Walk along the Merri Creek. What a lovely way to spend an afternoon! Around 35 people came and together we helped ourselves to wild mallow, chickweed, dock, wild lettuce, dandelion, milk thistle, angled onion, good king henry, wild celery and stinging nettle (delicious!) among others, starting the walk with a tasty green smoothie made of edible weeds with orange, banana, mango and passionfruit.
We had some lovely feedback:
"Thanks for the great tour on Saturday - it's great now my eyes have been opened I see food everywhere I look!"
"Your Weed walk was wonderful and very inspiring."
"A huge thank you for a most wonderful day on the weed walk. The most blissful afternoon we've had in ages; when you're so tied to technology and day to day stuff, you forget how beautiful nature is. So good to see that many are as fascinated by nature and weeds as we are, we had a blast and then topping it off to end at Ceres, divine!"
Thanks to Phoung L for taking the photos! |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 00:00 |
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On September 10th 2009 at 8pm tune into SBS to see the VEG team facilitating a permaculture backyard makeover (permablitz) during the third episode of a great new series called Costa's Garden Odyssey (which started on August 27th). You can now watch back episodes of Costa's Garden Odyssey online.
Here's a before and after shot from the day:
Note: These images from an article on Urban Design Patterns in Melbourne by Dan from VEG.
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Monday, 03 August 2009 16:04 |
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 VEG's Adam Grubb is an aficionado of edible weeds, was featured foraging in this month's Voyeur (Virgin Blue inflight magazine), and today was on Queensland ABC radio with Ingrid Just. Listen in:
Come along to one of our Edible Weeds Walks. Send
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to put your name down for future walks. If the above player doesn't work you can try downloading the audio from the QLD ABC radio website. The picture of Adam is from an article in The Age from 2007. See some photos and feedback from our last walk here. |
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Monday, 13 July 2009 17:17 |
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 Adam Grubb from VEG is proud to launch a book by the highly respected co-founder of permaculture, David Holmgren, which delves into various possible futures, and ways to prepare for them: Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change.
Saturday 1st August 2009, 11:30am
CERES Environmental Park, Lee St, Brunswick
In the Multicultural Classroom
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Saturday, 11 July 2009 18:40 |
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Turn on the TV, you'll see us. Open your newspaper. There we are. Get on an aeroplane and open the inflight magazine. We're going to be there too. Pretty soon you'll see us in your dreams. Riding through space atop giant earth worms, smelling like Seasol and firing out organic rotten tomatoes from our futuristic cannons at the forces of the bland chemical food system. We've been putting ourselves at the mercy of the media quite a bit lately. This article from the Herald Sun's Home mag today features VEG's Dan Palmer and Adam Grubb and a photo of a VEG bed in an article about the permablitz concept. Plus, our top 10 reasons for growing your own food. Read on...
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