This March MRSG Sustainable Homes Action Group is presenting the “Project Showcase”, an exhibition of projects Macedon Ranges householders have undertaken to make their homes more thermally comfortable, cheaper to run and more energy-efficient, and of work-from-home spaces that are reducing the need to commute.
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Read MoreSustainable Malmsbury is excited to be hosting these new workshops on making soaps and natural cosmetics, pruning, grafting and budding fruit trees. Tickets are selling fast. Don’t miss out!
Read MoreSeveral conditions and events in recent years have intersected to bring us to a moment of change regarding the future of the Woodend Permaculture Garden.
Read MoreNew Victorian Prevention of Cruelty to Animals regulation (2019) to affect home fruit growers.
Read MoreThanks to the generous $500 cheque from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, we shall be in a position to install drip irrigation in the Woodend Community Garden to make the watering use and activity more efficient over the summer months.
Read MoreThe chickens in our permaculture precinct perform an important function: they attack pests, weeds and disease in situ. Foraging under our fruit trees the chickens transform grubs, weeds, fallen fruit, lunchbox ‘gifts’ from the kindergarten next door and herbal ‘peck’ to a nitrogen rich deposit amongst the deep litter of the orchard mulch creating a slow release fertiliser.
Read MoreAn active composting system allows us to continue the nutrient cycle of our gardening enterprise, closing the loop on waste creation by managing our organic waste on-site. We also avoid the introduction of external pests and disease into our growing system.
Read MoreRiddell’s Creek Seed Savers (RCSS) is a group of home gardeners dedicated to preserving traditional, non-hybrid, open-pollinated food seed varieties which do well in the Macedon Ranges.
Read MoreRiddell’s Creek Seed Savers (RCSS) is a group of home gardeners dedicated to preserving traditional, non-hybrid, open-pollinated food seed varieties which do well in the Macedon Ranges.
Read MoreWelcome to 2019 everybody. The Community Garden Group is in a flurry of activity in an effort to be perfect for the Macedon Ranges Sustainable Living Festival this year. We are welcoming a new face amongst our regular volunteers, Robin Phillips. Robin will be particularly helping with some of the handyman aspects of the backyard garden space, most urgently repairs to our wonderful chicken coop which suffered a fox incursion recently.
Read MoreThe Woodend Permaculture Garden recently has received a large boost in honeybee pollination services from the Woodend Bee-Friendly Society.
Read MoreThe Woodend Permaculture Garden are looking to enlist the services of a handyperson to assist with repairs to the compost bins and general garden maintenance. If you have the skills and the time please contact Loris Cassar on 0427 327 034 or loriscassar@gmail.com
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