If you grow fruit or
vegetables at home whether it’s in a big designated garden, some scattered fruit
trees or even on a windowsill, then you should be registering your garden with
Grow It Local. Registering your ‘patch’ is a great way to be part of an Australia
wide community farm. You can include pictures of your garden and your tips on
producing that ideal crop as well browse through the 1000+ gardens already
registered. Head to the Grow It Local
website for all the details.
This week’s guest,
Riki Edelsten, is the Melbourne Director of the Grow It Local campaign and we
found out what it is all about. Riki also filled us in on the upcoming Local
Growers Feast on the March 1st which will tie in with the final day
of Sustainable Living Festival. To go in the running for the 50 double pass
tickets to the feast, all you need to do is register your patch, share tips on
their facebook page and use the #growitlocal tag on instagram and twitter @growinitlocal.
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| Claire will be speaking at the SLF |
This week our guest
also covered the upcoming Sustainable Living Festival being held in and around
Melbourne from the 7 Feb - 1 March. From what we heard, there will be something for pretty much everyone
so you must check out the website to see which events are going to tickle your fancy.
There is the Transitions Film Festival nestled into the Sustainable Living
Festival, many workshops including ones on permaculture and garden pest
management, morning weekly bike tour along the Barwon River departing Geelong,
panel discussions featuring Tim Flannery, talks from George Marshall, ClaireDunn, Tim Silverwood and many more. Honestly, do yourself a favour and just
check through the list of events and I’m sure you will 1) be surprised and 2)
find something that you cannot resist going to! I think is something like 200
events and they are spread out across Melbourne including Geelong and even
Inverloch.
If you were listening
to the show you will have heard about the survey we are running for
Environmentality where you can win 2 movie tickets just for filling it in. The
survey should take about a minute and it will help us to improve our show.
CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE SURVEY and good luck!
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| George will discuss his book at the SLF |
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| Screening at the Transitions Film Festival |
Next week on the show we will be discussing Permaculture with a specialist in the field so make sure you tune in or download the podcast.
Thanks to our guest
Riki for this week’s music selections:
Peaches by Presidents
Of The United States
Our House by Madness
From Little Things Big
Things Grow by Paul Kelly
Push Th’ Little Daises
by Ween
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