Posted 17/10/12

Kyneton Transition Hub

Training for Transition - Last chance to register

A practical and informative workshop on the principles, steps and processes to build community resilience and localise communities from the ground up.

When: 9.30 to 5.30 pm, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October

Where: Red Brick Hall, 23 Yaldwyn Street West, Kyneton

Full cost $100; Members $75; Concession $50

The Transition Towns movement is a worldwide movement of ordinary people finding ways of being sustainable and resilient for the health and wellbeing of our children, ourselves and our planet. It can be applied to whatever kind of community you live in: suburb, city, town, village or even an island.

This workshop is both a practical and informative introduction to the logic and framework of the Transition Towns model. This grassroots international movement builds localised and resilient communities in response to climate change and peak oil. The workshop is both informative and experiential, weaving together practice and theory, and the Transition required at both the personal and community level.

The feedback from participants overwhelmingly states that this two day interactive workshop offers key insights, understanding, and the awareness to help them in contributing to the journey toward a positive and abundant future.

Our facilitator, Jacinta Walsh, is part of a select group of officially recognised Transition Town Trainers worldwide and is a co-initiator of her local Transition group, Transition Mount Alexander in Castlemaine, Central Victoria.

Jacinta runs Consentric Facilitation services and has extensive background in behaviour change and community development processes. The inspirational approach of the Transition Town model combined with knowledge of adaptive governance, innovative group techniques, and skills as a facilitator and trainer, offer participants a unique and energising workshop.

Last chance to register.  Contact KynetonTH@gmail.com for a brochure and registration form, or visit the website here.

Garden Gathering - Composting Bays & Wicking Bed

- by Sharon M -

Come and help make traditional timber slat composting bays, and maybe a wicking bed like the one last month at Julie’s (which took about 30 minutes to create). These are the same as the ones at the Kyneton Community Learning Centre which are made out of 1.2 metre square apple crates. If you're not sure you can help, just come along and keep us company.

This garden gathering will be at Luckwood Organics in Piper Street. Come and share ideas about small courtyard garden spaces, as the Luckwood garden space comes to life each Thursday morning when families visit for a cuppa and chat whilst collecting their organic produce.

Enjoy afternoon tea with garden loving people from our Kyneton Transition Hub / Edible Gardens group and interested friends.

Garden gatherings are about discovering productive gardening as a shared experience. There are so many wonderfully abundant, knowledge gaining solutions, and serendipitous outcomes that follow.  

Share your garden design dreams and challenges, ask questions and put yourself on our list for monthly garden gatherings or perma-blitz days.

Get into the spirit of reclaiming our gardens for more abundant living and happy resilient families and communities.

Meet people having fun creating a more food and garden creative Kyneton (and other great places).

When:  Sunday 28th October  2012 from 2pm to 4pm

Where:  Rear of 18 Piper Street Kyneton (walk down the driveway between Amelia’s Saucery and McColl Real Estate)  - no onsite parking

Any questions please call Sharon on 5422 3054 (I’m the new coordinator of Kyneton Edible Gardens garden gatherings and Kyneton Transition Hub’s pot luck dinners) you can also visit our website here.

Garden Gatherings can be a catalyst for  helping you create a regular or seasonal gardening exchange with old or new friends by taking turns helping each other in your gardens whilst nurturing your friendships simultaneously – much more fun than just “catching up for a coffee”.

P.S. In August,  I hosted the gardening gathering.  It was such a lovely afternoon and I’m so grateful for the marvellous help.  I now have a new raised vegetable bed with carrots and corn and calendula with room for Elizabeth’s sunflower seedlings too. My eggplants vanished overnight so I’m waiting for the frosts to end before I commence a busy November of seedling plantings.

Amazing Film Event - "In Transition 2.0"

In Transition 2.0 is the new film from Transition Network, capturing inspiring stories of Transition initiatives around the world, responding to uncertain times with creativity, solutions and 'engaged optimism'.

Join us at 6 pm on Sunday 28th October, Upstairs at The Albion, Piper Street.

In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places.

For more information, visit the film's website here.

Council Elections

Before voting in the current Council elections, have a look at the candidates' views on sustainability issues that have been gathered by the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group. Visit their website here

Compost Tea at the Kyneton Farmers Market

For the very first time at the October Farmers Market, the Swap Table also had our compost tea for sale.

We brewed up a great compost tea and there were many happy gardeners who took home some "liquid gold" to give their gardens a treat.

It's just $2.50 for 2 litres, and $3.50 for 3 litres, and a little goes a long way. The key thing to remember is that compost tea needs to be applied to your garden as soon as possible, so the best plan is to make some time that afternoon to get it on your garden. It's quick and easy to use. Just put some in a watering can, add water, and apply.

We'll have this magical garden elixir available at all future Kyneton Farmers Markets. If you are interested in finding out more about it, have a look at our website here.