Talking about weeds – the good, the bad and the edible. Bring some along to identify. All welcome. 7:30pm on 17th OCTOBER at the Fairfield/Chartwell Community House, Te Whare o Te Ata, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield. Gold coin entry.
Bring along any plants, seedlings, seeds, produce to swap on the donations table or sell on the sales table.
Talking about weeds – the good, the bad and the edible. Bring some along to identify. All welcome. 7:30pm on 17th Sept at the Fairfield/Chartwell Community House, Te Whare o Te Ata, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield. Gold coin entry.
Bring along any plants, seedlings, seeds, produce to swap on the donations table or sell on the sales table.
The Waikato Tree Crops annual grafting workshop will be held at Hill Laboratories, 1 Clyde st Hamilton East on 19 September at 7.30p.m.
Bring a grafting knife or a stanley knife, secateurs and any scion wood you want to graft with. Root stocks supplied.
Cost: $5 for Tree Crops members and $10 for non-members. For more information phone Don Harwood 843 9007
Feeding the world organically. Monday 19th of September, 7.30pm, Te Whare o te Ata, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield.
Gold coin entry to cover room hire costs. Please bring along any items to sell on the Sales Table or plants and produce to swap on the Donations Table.
Of interest:
1. There is a petition (see link below) regarding the proposed Food Bill 160-2. This Bill poses a risk to the success and value of initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit & vegetable stalls.
http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/petition/oppose-the-new-zealand-government-food-bill-160-2/1301
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2011/09/13/food-bill-update-from-sue-kedgley/
2. There was an interesting talk about compost on Saturday by Kath Irvine who teaches Permaculture and Edible gardening, you can listen to it at the following link: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday
Feeding the world organically. How might organic growing alleviate the food world crises? What does some of the latest research say? Come and join us for some interesting ideas and discussion, Monday 19th of September, 7.30pm, Te Whare o te Ata, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield.
Gold coin entry to cover room hire costs. Please bring along any items to sell on the Sales Table or plants and produce to swap on the Donations Table. All welcome.
At our meeting on 15th we will be playing the ‘Earth Whisperers ‘ documentary featuring many well known New Zealanders, including Isla Burgess, Craig Potton, Kay Baxter and others talking about NZ’s natural environment, protests to protect it, their views and philosophies.
All welcome. 7.30pm at Fairfield/Chartwell Community House, Te Whare o Te Ata, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield. Gold coin entry to cover room hire costs. Please bring along any items to sell on the Sales Table or plants and produce to swap on the Donations Table.
Organic farming and growing- what’s involved?
What is organic certification?
Why go organic?
Speaker followed by question and answer session
hosted by OrganicFarm NZ Waikato
Informal evening – call in any time after 6 pm
Tuesday july 19th Hamilton Envirocentre Ward st Hamilton
Gold coin donation
Biodynamic Organic farmers Norman and Diane Baker talking about using the moon calendar for all sorts of gardening tasks. We’ll also be discussing the different interpretations of the moon calendar that are available.
Start time 7:30pm at Te Whare Te Whare o Te Ata, Fairfield/Chartwell Community House, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield. Gold coin donation please to cover room hire.
HOGs are putting in a group order with King seeds. If you’d like to order any Kings seeds with HOGs please email Joy at hamiltonorganicgardeners “at” gmail.com with the plant names and SKU numbers before 1st August. Ordering as a group saves on postage costs and depending on how much you spend you may receive a free packet of seeds. The seeds can be collected at the August meeting.
Biodynamic Organic farmer Norman Baker talking about using the moon calendar for all sorts of gardening tasks. We’ll also be discussing the different interpretations of the moon calendar that are available.
Start time 7:30pm. Venue Te Whare o Te Ata, Fairfield/Chartwell Community House, 60a Sare Crescent Fairfield.
All welcome. Gold coin entry thanks.
You’re welcome to bring along any items to sell on the Sales Table or plants and produce to swap on the Donations Table.
Some parking in the car park if you’re early otherwise there’s parking on Sare Crescent or on Clarkin Road and walk across the park.
Herbalist Val McArthur will talk about herbal tonics that can be made from ingredients found in the garden.
7.30pm at Te Whare o te Ata, 60A Sare Cres, Fairfield. Gold coin entry to cover room hire costs. Note: lighting in the carpark has been improved since last meeting.
Don’t forget to bring along any garden produce, seedlings, etc to sell, on the Sales Table or swap, on the Donations Table. Look forward to seeing you there!
