Hi Again,
A few more things to share since the last newsletter a couple of weeks ago.
Bushfire Recovery Permablitz
at Daniel Aquilina's permaculture property this Saturday, Jan 17
As you may have heard Daniel's farm at Cudlee Creek in the Hills got
burnt-out in the fires.
He and his house are OK but most of the sheep and virtually all the property
were burned, including the dripper lines in his orchards (about 300 trees).
He is desperate to get water and mulch back onto what is left of his fruit
trees so that will be a focus, but there is much to clean up.
If you can help please come to 138 Hollands Creek Rd, Cudlee Creek from 10am
this Saturday 17 Jan with food for morning tea and lunch. We will bring a
hot water urn. A couple of trailers with 4WD utes would be handy. Also
wheel-barrows, an assortment of tools for digging, spade, mattock, gloves,
scissors, bucket, energy and loppers for pruning burned branches, tools for
irrigation installation (we'll be working with mainly 19mm poly). Daniel has
organised dripper line and I will organise drippers and other fittings.
He is keen to sell the approx 20 Wiltipoll sheep that were saved. These are
a breed that shed their wool in summer and regrow it in winter, so they need
no shearing and very little other care. They tend to have an average of more
than one lamb per year and are wonderful grazers, but Daniel has virtually
no fences left so cannot continue to look after them. Meanwhile he is
handfeeding them on hay brought in from elsewhere...so any spare hay would
be useful.
The weather forecast at the moment is for a cloudy day and mid twenties.
Come equipped with sturdy shoes/boots, sunprotection, gloves, water bottle
etc
The turnoff to Hollands Ck road is pretty much in Cudlee Ck near the CFS
station, so go slowly and look for it
Daniel can be contacted on 83892203
Survey Prize Winners
To encourage responses to our recent membership survey, we offered two prizes of a years Permaculture SA membership to randomly selected respondents, one member and one non-member. The winners of these prizes are (drum roll) Ashley Spain and Arthur Hay.
Congratulations Ashley and Arthur, and thanks to everyone who completed and sent in the survey. We have people analysing the responses and they will share what they find with us soon.
Open Day at Joes Connected Garden
7th February
See over 400 varieties of fruiting plants (not all plants currently bearing fruit), many subtropicals and exotics, as well as natives, growing on interconnected suburban blocks in a new expression of community gardening. This is an example of sustainable urban agriculture following organic and permaculture principles and with neighbourhood cooperation. Come and see how you can do this for yourself! Each day there will be talks by the Rare Fruit Society at 11am and 2pm as well as planting and pruning demonstrations, info booth, sustainability stalls, hot and cold drinks, sausage sizzle, large variety of warm/dry climate plants for sale at very reasonable prices, figs a specialty. Open on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2015 from 10am to 4.30pm each day. Plenty of shade available if it is hot. Elizabeth is not as far away as you may think! An easy half hour drive from the CBD up Main North Road or Salisbury Highway. Admission $8 (children under 18 free)with gate proceeds to charity. Organisations to benefit this year are the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, the Orangutan Project and SA Bushfire Appeal. For information on the Open Gardens program go to http://www.opengarden.org.au/
Facebook event page.
That's all for now. If you have any news or events you would like to see in future newsletters, please email them to info@permaculturesa.org.au
Cheers,
Greg
Secretary
Permaculture SA
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