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Showing posts with label Compost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compost. Show all posts
Monday, 6 April 2015
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Talking about food: where it comes from, where the left-overs end up. Waste not - Want not!
Dear Networkers,
Sometimes it would be great to have a jet aircraft or time machine at one's beck and call. And if I had some marvellous free transport near at hand, I would be off to New York City for this event. Food, food waste, composting etc are topics of great interest to me.
It appears that a star-studded cast has been assembled for this foodtank event.
I live in Ballarat - and I would love to have such an event with speakers of this calibre speaking here. Locally, if such an event were to take place in Ballarat, we might have some speakers to touch on the topics of the waste associated with the destruction of fruit trees because the processor won't give producers contracts; the waste if low supermarket prices drive dairy farmers from their farms or into other forms of food production.
There are three things that keeps us alive - clean air, clean water, fresh food. While we are working to alert the world to Climate Change and renewable energy, we ignore at our peril this trinity of basics. Included in this short list are the background issues - good, sound, productive soil; regulation of any interference or possible interference with the cleanliness and freshness of our air, water and food; the maintenance of fair livelihoods.
So can we have a big think and discussion about this?
Blessings from Miss Eagle ~~~
A very special evening discussion bringing together the New York City food movement for food waste awareness week. Hosted by Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
Sept 19th 5:30PM to 7:30PM EST
The Snapple Theater, 1627 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019
Musical Guest:
Speakers:
and many more to be announced soon!
Drinks and light snacks included!
$25 donation. Limited tickets available, purchase now.
If you have any questions, please call 202-590-1037 or email danielle@foodtank.org.
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Thursday, 6 June 2013
ABC Open : Neighbourhood Houses : Worm Farming
Have you come across ABC Open in your region yet?
In the Ballarat region, we have the marvellous Marc Eiden teaching about all sorts of things. Marc helps and encourages ordinary mortals to get their stuff on to the web and even television: blogging, sound recording, video. I did one of his blogging courses and even though I have been blogging for eight years this month, I still found the session informative and helpful.
Individuals can turn up at the courses run by the ABC Open producers. In addition, I really think this regional ABC project is something that Neighbourhood Houses should think about. Here is an opportunity to record in word or sound or vision some of the wonderful stuff being done by some very dedicated people in urban and regional Australia. Below is an informative video about worm farming in the Ballarat area. This was done as part of ABC Open. It concerns a huge worm farm operation - particularly when it's compared with my l'il ole Can o' Worms multi-tiered job. I love my little wormies and get a bit concerned for them in winter as they snuggle up together.
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Monday, 10 September 2012
Two Quakers in a Sunday search of sustainability : worm septic system and the never-watered fruit and veges
Yesterday was Sustainable House Day. There were lots of marvellous choices across the country - but I selected one. Elderblogger syndrome once again. Experience has shown I must not try to fit too much into the schedule. When I went over the list, it seemed to me that in some entries there was an emphasis on the house with little or nothing offered in the way of an interesting garden. I was more interested in what might be going on out-of-doors and I chose accordingly. My destination turned out to be in a quite isolated location whose nearest settlement is the village of Napoleons.
I set off with my F/friend Ruth after Quaker Meeting for Worship. I checked Google Maps for location and directions before leaving and set off with the written details ... and finished up being unable to complete the directions because a tree was down across the road. Another vehicle came along - another Google person. So that made two vehicles heading for the same sustainable house. Then there was movement on the other side of the fallen tree. This was a GPS victim. They had been to the sustainable house and thought they were returning the way they had come ... but not so.
Eventually, Ruth and I made it to our destination in the hills surrounded by forest.
There were two things that were of particular interest ...
... the worm farm septic system ....
... and the fully enclosed orchard including vegetable gardens ....
...in which the chooks forage.
Their three sided chook shed is at the rear of the orchard.
These are pictures of the vege garden
which is not enclosed with the orchard.
Peter and Christine never ever water
the orchard and the vege gardens.
The septic system is one huge worm farm.
When the tanks reach a certain level,
approximately twice a day dependent upon usage,
a pump comes on and the tank contents
are pumped up automatically into trenches below
the fruit trees in the orchard.
Ruth and I had a wonderful and intrepid day out.
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