In this edition of E-News you can find out more about the April Australasian Permaculture Convergence; what’s coming up in youth and adult education; the Autumn Equinox Cabaret: plants, critters and more!
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In this July edition of E-News check out the special EKKA festival at City Farm Nursery, there are new workshops coming up and Earth Arts is on again.
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Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month.
To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK HERE.
You will receive the newsletter to your email once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.
During April we have continued with robust, timely and ever-positive responses to Government guidelines and restrictions around COVID-19. The Markets have remained open during this period thanks to a very hard working and dedicated team and collegial shoppers. The Nursery is powering along and we continue to think BIG about the future. We are delighted to see the global movement towards home grown food and hope you are inspired by this too!
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Northey Street City Farm publish a free electronic newsletter every month.
To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK HERE.
You will receive the newsletter to your email once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.
The team have excelled in taking measures to keep staff, volunteers and the general public safe. Operations are slowed but not stopped which is wonderful and we are thinking BIG about the future. Read here.
Northey Street City Farm publish a free electronic newsletter every month.
To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK HERE.
You will receive the newsletter to your email once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.
This month we’re preparing for the Australasian Permaculture Convergence, supporting a local verge planting in West End, planting salt-tolerant native plants in our north east gardens and looking forward to our Monthly Night Market. We’re also collecting feedback about the Farm this month, we’d love to hear from you! Read here.
Northey Street City Farm publish a free electronic newsletter every month.
To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK HERE.
You will receive the newsletter to your email once a month to let you know what is happening at the farm.
Northey Street City Farm will be hosting the next Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC) at Redland Bay near Brisbane from 20 to 23 April 2020. More information about the APC is available on www.apc.nscf.org.au. Tickets are on sale through the website now.
There will also be a Permaculture and Community Gardens Festival on Sunday 19 April 2020 at Northey Street City Farm in Windsor, Brisbane. The Festival will showcase community gardens and permaculture projects. If you are a community garden or permaculture project interested in having a stall at the Festival, please email Simon Calcinai on markets@nscf.org.au.
Submissions are now open for presentations and workshops during APC2020.
The overall theme for APC2020 is Celebrating Nature’s Abundance. We are calling for submissions for workshops covering topics relevant to the three ethics of Permaculture, which are Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share.
All workshops will be 90 minutes long, and we expect presenters to include some audience participation in the workshop.
90-minute workshop application form: https://forms.gle/rTJK6oidxwYSov628
There will be opportunities for some 10-minute presentations or project reports one evening and a project poster display area to share your projects with everyone at the Convergence.
10 minute presentation application form: https://forms.gle/NadykVU3YAQTgacd9
Please fill in the relevant application form outlining your proposal to the selection panel. The panel will review all submissions and choose those that will complement each other and provide balance, depth and spread to the program.
Absolute DEADLINE for submissions is 5 pm on Tuesday 29 October 2019.
We’ll notify all applicants by 1 December 2019.
We have two Earth Kids programs starting soon – the Spring school holidays program, and the Homeschoolers program, being held on six Friday mornings in October and November.
Both programs will include some special guest presenters. At our Spring program, Richard Nielsen will split a native (stingless) beehive with the children, and talk to them about the importance of bees. This activity was a real hit with the Earth Kids last year. Spring is the perfect time for hive-splitting, as the good weather and abundant flowers mean that colonies are strong and likely to swarm if the hives aren’t split. The swarms don’t always survive as the new homes they find for themselves are often in inappropriate locations. When we split the hive, the two halves of the old hive are paired up with empty half boxes, to create two hives.
At the homeschool pro
gram, we will have spider expert Robert Whyte joining us. Robert is the co-author of ‘A Field Guide to Australian Spiders’. Last time he joined a program he had the Earth Kids collecting dozens of spiders, which he helped to identify. The children were very enthused about activity!
On both the Spring holiday program and homeschool program we will have Bill Lowah as a special guest presenter. Bill is a Torres Strait Islander who is on the farm’s First Nations Advisory Group. He is a wonderful story-teller, and we look forward to him sharing some of his culture and stories with the Earth Kids.
Our Earth Kids programs are about supporting kids to become ‘nature smart’ – to have the knowledge, understandings and skills to engage in creating a more sustainable world – in a fun and interactive way. They are experiential programs of outdoor discovery, in which children learn about the animals and plants at the Farm through observation and supported questioning; explore Indigenous knowledge; experiment with Earth Arts and bushcraft skills; and put permaculture into practice.
Each program differs according to the seasons and to include a diversity of activities. Along with the guest presenters we’ll also be doing shelter building, fire making, Earth arts, learning about birds and plants at the farm, and experiencing Earth connection practices and games.
We welcome volunteers on our Earth Kids programs. Non-parent volunteers are required to have a current blue card.
“I loved it, I loved all of it.” – Xanthe, aged 7.
“I really liked the games, kids and activities.” – Mabry, aged 8.
“What a fantastic program! School holidays made easy at last! Kids loved it and learned so much! Thanks to the fantastic teachers. We can’t wait until next time!” – Eleanor Chenery, parent.
“We truly had an excellent week. The programme was educational, but also lots of fun with new friends and new skills. The programme was so well organised, delivered and supervised, and the teachers were great. I would recommend this to anyone, and we will attend again. And again. And again! Thanks so much.” – Melanie Davidson, parent.
“Earth Kids is FUN! We love every moment. It’s all about learning on so many levels, with activities that teach us all about the local wildlife and the environment, and making sure that we watch out for each other. The guest presenters are great too and gift us with the most amazing knowledge and moments. Parents and kids make friends at Earth Kids and we get to share so many cool experiences together. Emma and Tali (the staff) are awesome and the kids love them, which is great! We always have the best time!” Donnamarie Flockhart (parent volunteer) and Bodhi Flockhart (Earth Kid)
For more information, please see: https://www.nscf.org.au/home/learn/youth-education/holiday-programs/
The next Earth Kids holiday program from 10th to 12th July 2018 will include a Thursday evening family experience with Earth connection activities and fire-side soup, stories and music. It’ll be a chance for the whole family to have a taste of Earth Kids!
The NSCF Earth Kids school holiday program is about supporting kids to become ‘nature smart’ – to have the knowledge, understandings and skills to engage in creating a more sustainable world – in a fun and interactive way.
This is a 3-day experiential program of outdoor discovery in which kids will learn about the animals and plants at the Farm through observation and supported questioning, explore Indigenous knowledge, experiment with Earth Arts and bushcraft skills, and put permaculture into practice.
The program is for kids aged 7 to 12 years of age. For this winter program the hours for Tuesday and Wednesday will be from 9 am to 3 pm each day (drop off from 8.30 am and pick up until 3.30 pm). On the Thursday there will be an evening program with parents and families; the day program will be from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm (drop off from 9 am and pick up until 4 pm), with the family program running from 4.15 to 7.15 pm on the Thursday night.
Hi folks, Kate here. I’m the new co-ordinator for this year’s festival and as a long time patron of the festival I’m pretty excited about what we are creating this year! Last year the festival saw 2000 people in attendance so this year we’re chatting with Brisbane City Council about expanding beyond this number for a bigger and better festival! More talks, more workshops, more entertainment, more food and more fun! So here is the latest news and some exciting announcements!
I’m super excited to announce that OKA will be dancing us into the evening with their didge and chilled beats after the bonfire. We also have troubadour and very talented songwriter Murray Kyle singing us up to the bonfire and Winter Solstice ceremony where we celebrate the longest night of the year and the return of the light. We will have some great acts singing us through the afternoon so bring your picnic blanket or camping chairs so you can kick back and enjoy the music on the green!
This year we are planning to showcase a Zero Waste event! This is exciting and also a little challenging because we won’t be using any single use plastic disposable. So heads up – you’ll need to bring your own cup / plate / bowl / cutlery (perhaps your fave from your camping kit?) and if you forget, or you’re travelling light, there will be crockery available to hire for a gold coin contribution and we will likely also have some awesome sustainable products available for purchase if you want to buy your kit for the next festival!
It’s pretty exciting to think our footprint could be so minimised for a festival that attracts 2000 people each winter and potentially more this year! We are working with Renew Fest in Mullumbimby who has successfully run zero waste events in the past. I reckon this might be the first large festival of its kind in Brisbane. We’re so pleased to co-create it with you!
We have also partnered up with Byron Spirit Festival which runs from the 20th -22nd April 2018. It means that if you’re thinking about heading down you can use the code ‘NSCF18’ when you purchase your ticket you’ll get 10% off! 5% of your ticket cost will also go to their partner charity ‘A Sound Life’ providing yoga, singing, meditation to underprivileged people.
As well as a fabulous entertainment line up, our education program this year will see talks and workshops happening in three different tents throughout the afternoon in theme with the three ethics of Permaculture, which are: Earth Care; People Care and Fair Share. We are planning to bring you first-class educators and presenters in their fields of expertise to share their knowledge with you.
As a yogini & musician I’m looking to introduce a new space for our People Care venue, for some extra wellbeing workshops and there will be something for everyone.
Our kids program is always really popular, so we are gathering together a mix of old favourites and newcomers to inspire, educate and entertain your children. We will also build on the success of last years teens program with activities specifically targeted to their unique interests and learning styles. We always aim to provide something for everyone in the family, so you can all come along and enjoy the Winter Solstice together.
We’d love you to join the tribe on Facebook, so we can keep you up-to-date with our full program as we release it in the lead up to the Winter Solstice Festival….. jump on over here and give us the big thumbs up!
Would you like to be part of the crew that make the festival happen? The festival just wouldn’t happen without the involvement of many volunteers so we’d love you to join us in the lead up and/or set up of the festival, or on the day!
A commitment of just 3 hours of your time will earn you free entry to the event and a meal in exchange, making this great event accessible to everyone. Lets chat about what you can contribute. The possibilities are endless and include helping with marketing, putting up fencing and marquees prior to the event, stage management, security, signage, child care (blue card required), or parking attendant on the day. We need a wide range of people and skills, so get in touch and we’ll find a job perfect for you! We look forward to hearing from you and to co-creating this wonderful event for our community with you.
This year we are looking at road closures to include the other half of the farm in the festival area and it looks like the costs for traffic controllers could be significant. So we’d love to hear from any Traffic Controllers who are willing to volunteer or offer us a good ‘not for profit’ organisation discount.
I’m also looking for a personal assistant or apprentice, so if you’d like to learn how to run events I’ll show you the ropes in exchange for a few hours a week of your time. I’d love to hear from you!
You can fill in the form below and tell me a little about yourself, what experience, skills and passions you have and what role/s you feel you could be involved with (you can also let me know what you don’t have experience in but would like to help out with!)
As is our tradition at Northey Street City Farm this is a grass roots community event so we are keeping ticket prices low. This year we are offering early-bird (closing 30 April 2018)and pre-sale discounts, and tix for adults start as low as $20, and gate tix are $30. Great discounts for families and kids are available too! You can rest easy knowing that money raised will go towards covering the costs of the event and continue to fund the farm and all the great work it does for our Brisbane community.
See you on June 23rd! (How many sleeps is that!?)
With great excitement and anticipation! Kate, Georgia & the festival team! 😉
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