October Meeting

I completely forgot to post the photos from Daley’s October meeting. Daley has been experimenting in lots of different ideas including mushroom growing and raised vegetable beds. Robert also turned up and shared a huge amount of different seeds.

August Lawn to Lunch

A Saxon Bellows

Vinegar, Herbs and how to make Olive Leaf Extract.

 

Bamboo Flutes

Bamboo Flute and Walking Stick

Cheese Making

Egg smoking demonstration

“Nuclear Cold Remedy” Honey and Garlic! and a cobb oven.

July Lawn to Lunch Meeting

Pauls June L2L meeting

Over twenty people showed up last weekend at Pauls place to check out his Aquaponics system and several other projects that he has got on the go. Paul is the first of our group to give Sleepy Cod a go and they are doing very well as are the Jade Perch that he is keeping in a second tank.

Paul has incorporated swirl filters and some very clever microprocessor control systems into both his aquaponics system and his home made solar hot water system that is saving him hundreds of dollars a year and cost only a fraction of what a commercial system would.

Thanks Paul for getting us all inspired and inviting us into your home and giving us all a few more project ideas to think about!

Paradise in Suburbia

Local Greens candidate Paul Bambrick and his lovely wife Edwina are two people I have a great deal of time and respect for. Politicians can often be accused of just “talking the talk” but this wonderful couple really do “walk the walk” as well. Allowing us into their home for the April Lawn to Lunch meeting was a treat and we got to see how they have been working to restore the damaged bushland and rebalance the natural ecology by replanting native flora over the majority of the property and planting a variety of fruit trees to add to the local sustainable food options.

It was hard to believe that this beautiful rustic home created from gorgeous sustainable materials, and the large bushland property it sits on are so close to the heart of Yeppoon nestled among ordinary run of the mill suburban dwellings. It is one of those places that you wouldn’t know existed if someone hadn’t invited you to visit.

Thank you so much Paul and Edwina for allowing us into your amazing home for the day and extending your gracious hospitality to us!

January Meeting

It was an excellent start to the new year with over 30 L2L members turning up at Blue and Cindy’s place for the first meeting of 2014. Thanks go out to the hosts for their overwhelming hospitality and for Cindy’s wonderful cooking. This garden has come together in the last four years and consists of a terraced landscape thickly coated with wood mulch. The greenhouse is Blue’s secret weapon against fruit flies and other pests and lets him grow tomatoes and other plants year round without having to use pesticides. St Andrews spiders are captured from the property and released into the greenhouse to take care of any pests that might get in.

Blue is growing a lot of Asian fruits and vegetables plus  mobs of ginger and bananas including cooking bananas.