THIS SUNDAY: Wasted Workshops

Learn how to upcycle your own paper waste and
design your own paper for a special occasion!

Sunday 25 September, 9am-12pm
Village Green area at the Village Life Market (running alongside our Sunday Organic Markets)

Cost: $50 adults. $25 children under 15 years.
Bookings: info@redhotfibre.com.au
Phone: 0407 756 462
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For more information, please visit www.howtomakepaperkit.com.au

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City Farm Email Update – September 2011

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News from the Nursery

September Specials.

  • Punnets of mixed Lettuce (includes Cos, Buttercrunch and Red Mignonette), and punnets of Mizuna $2
  • Catnip and Feverfew in 100 ml pots $2.50

New Stock in Now

Blueberries, Dwarf Lychees,Miracle Fruit, Cedar Bay Cherries(native), Citrus, both dwarf and normal, Avocadoes, Tamarilloes, Thornless Loganberries, Jaboticaba and Davidsons Plum, and many many more. Come in and see for yourself!

Don’t miss your chance to get some of  our fantastic Organic Sugarcane Mulch. The Berndts, who have been supplying us wonderful mulch for many years, are easing into retirement, and have delivered their last load.  Not to worry – we’ll find another supplier!

Donations Requested: Old Fencing

The nursery needs to replace all of our benches. After the floods, they are all rotting and becoming a hazard. We are looking for donations of “Cyclone” fence style galvanised posts, beams and fittings. They fit together to make great nursery bench frames. If you are replacing your fence and would like to donate the old one, please contact the nursery on (07) 3857 8774. It would be greatly apreciated!

Permaculture Design Course: Intensive

Beginning on Monday 19 September is our last Permaculture Design Course (PDC) for 2011. This two-week intensive course will cover all of our usual exciting permaculture subjects from designing, creating and maintaining a productive food garden, to living more lightly on the Earth.

Spaces still available, but get in quick!

Visit our Courses and workshops page for more information and booking details.

THIS SUNDAY: Yoga, Basket Weaving & Shiatsu at the Village Life Markets

Share in a nourishing Sunday morning session at the Village Life Markets (running alongside our Sunday Organic Markets).

Loosen up with yoga for a creative class of basket weaving that ends with sharing simple guided partner shiatsu techniques for rejuvenation.

Anaheke Metua has been sharing her passion for yoga, weaving and shiatsu for the past 5years in QLD and abroad. She is currently working as a Flying Artist and a freelance Cultural Artist continually honing her crafts and offering them back to the community.

COST: $65 – All materials supplied
WHEN: Sunday, September 11 at 9:00pm
WHERE: NSCF – Village Life Markets
(near the main stage)
alongside  the Sunday Organic Markets.

New Sustainable Living Workshops

Check out the new Sustainable Living Workshops just listed including:

Establishing and maintaining a vegie garden and solar cooking.

Click here for details

Village Life Featured Stallholder: Lesa Hepburn

Village Life runs every Sunday 8am-noon (alongside our Sunday Organic Markets) providing locally-made and ecologically-sustainable products for our community.  This series showcases the products and talents of our regular stallholders.

Lesa Hepburn is a professional fibre artist producing a wide range of contemporary artworks primarily from her own hand made paper.

She creates unique eco-friendly artwork and jewellery featuring weaving and embossing. Lesa incorporates recycled materials and specially grown and prepared plant fibres into her processes and images and we find her wealth of knowledge and experience in paper making inspiring!
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Lesa’s paper-making “Wasted workshop” will be featured on Channel 7′s Great South East this Sunday at 5:30pm!
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Her next workshop is scheduled for Sunday 25 September.  Stay tuned to nscf.org.au for more details closer to the date, or pop by this Sunday morning to see her work for yourself!

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