Showing posts with label collective effort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective effort. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Collective effort (November working bee)

Our November working bee at Albert Street garden began with a look at what the free food stand had on offer. Emily introduces a visitor to the concept.


There were purple Congo spuds, last season Harcourt apples and broadbeans for starters.


Jono and Liv got into the veg-digging spirit of the day.


Nikki and Kai's grandma pulled weeds together.


Alison signed an Australian Food Sovereignty petition.


Ash (from above), Kai and Tom (below) set a compost,


and later Dora joined Alison in one of the central beds.


Meg explained a thing or two to Kai,


while Woody cut back the fever few.


Tom watered the garden, and over the next couple of hot weeks watered in the new seedlings each day.


Meg pondered between jobs.


and Ash took a break with a book.


Kirsten stopped just long enough to snap this,


and we all said farewell for another month. Bye Zero!


Next working bee is on again this Saturday, Dec 9. It runs from 9am - 12 noon at the Albert St garden (beside the library). All are welcome for as little or as much time as you can spare. It would be great to see you, and please bring spare seedlings of all kinds. We especially need to get some tomatoes and basil in the ground.

Sunday, 10 November 2013

November Working Bee



We had an enthusiastic & energetic November working bee and swap meet with more than 20 gardeners... all of them bricks! in action amidst continually changing conditions...



Lots of plantings, seedlings & seeds: tomatoes, coriander, basil, spinach, to name some. Lots of composting: distributing, spreading, tossing & turning, and building new heaps...



Lots of maintenance: with edging, weeding, mulching, staking and consolidating the beds, plus overhead wires for the banana passion-fruit... there was also painstaking attention brought to the coddling moth infestation outside the library (thank-you Paul!)




Lots of conferring and co-operations...





Lots of hello’s... to familiar and new faces...







...to a young Rose...



and a (temporary) good-bye to an old (but eternally young!) face...


see you later Patrick!... all the best to you Meg Zephyr Woody & Zero for the next adventure!

Friday, 20 September 2013

September working bee

A quieter working bee this month with just twelve of us getting out in the cold spring weather and the photographer going home before proceedings really got under way.


We planted out beetroot, cos lettuce, broccoli, peas and some more strawberries.


The edging we laid last working bee has settled in and we added mature compost to these beds.


Looking forward to a warmer October working bee and our numbers back to usual force. We will be calling a meeting soon about all the various roles being filled when Meg and Patrick and their family take off for their year long adventure. If you want to get involved in more of the organisational aspects of DCFG please contact us or leave a comment here.

Monday, 11 February 2013

February Working Bee (in pictures)

Tony 
Kate

Jobs board

Luke

Woody and Sonia

Yum!

Dora and Meg

Collective effort

Jamie and friend

Tia, Arden and Eric

Chris

Patrick and Zero

Amelia, Edie and Jasper

Sunday, 11 November 2012

November Bee

Over fifty people turned up to this month's working bee and Harvest Swapmeet. A beautiful spring day and plenty of love...

This is what we got up to at Albert St garden:




















And then a few of us took off to Rea Lands Park to spread lucerne and plant pumpkins under the fruit and nut trees: