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Chenni, Simon, Ruth and Scott having fun recycling newspaper to make biodegradable plant pots at the last working bee.
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December 5 working bee and end of year party
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The next, and final working bee for 2015 will take place in the late afternoon and early evening of Saturday 5 December. It will be a combined working bee and an end-of-year party to celebrate the commencement of Lyneham Commons.
We will begin at 4pm with the working bee and finish with a shared picnic meal.
The working bee will include:
- moving mulch (TAMS have delivered an extra load that we hadn’t expected - but hey, mulch is good
- weeding
- watering.
There will also be children’s activities:
- decorating the nearby shade trees
- making decorations to take home
Please bring:
- your family - all welcome;
- some food to share,
- chairs or picnic rugs,
- refreshments,
- working tools (wheelbarrows and tarps for the mulch; and your favourite weeding tools)
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Thanks to everyone who had been helping with the watering. Some good rain has eased the load, and reduced the need to cart water.
Good News! One of Lyneham Commons near neighbours has offered to assist us by selling us water for a short while - until we get our long term strategy in place. We have almost worked out the details of how this might happen and hope the work of installing a temporary tap will go ahead soon.
When new arrangements are in place we will be contacting those people who have volunteered to help water the plants and record the water used. If you would be happy to help too, please send us an email.
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Lyneham Commons will be participating in the Peoples Climate March which will commence at Parliament House Lawns on Sunday 29 November at 12.00 pm and march to Reconciliation Place where a festival is planned.
This event is part of a series of global protests scheduled to take place just before the Paris Climate negotiations (COP2) to send a clear message to the decision makers to respond to the moral challenge of climate change and to let them know that we the people will hold them to account. More information can be found here and here.
Lyneham Commons is participating in order to highlight the fundamental links between climate change, and food security, particularly in developing countries but also more broadly.
We are also participating because we believe that initiatives like ours, small though they may be, are part of the solution to the challenge of climate change – people coming together to respond and contribute to community awareness and sustainable food growing
Please come to this event to help us send this message. Look for our banner on the day. We will be marching with the yellow group which is designed to emphasis the importance of people driven climate change solutions.
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