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New EYE tshirts available!! very very exEYEting!
Yes, isn’t it beautiful? Designed by talented EYEgirl Holly Mae, our new tshirt comes in charcoal (pictured), arctic blue, jade green
the EYEball is coming…
Our fourth annual EYEball will be held on Saturday, 22 October at the Bellingen Memorial Hall. It will be a fantastic night filled with inspiring entertainment, celebrating youth and the planet. It is a family friendly and “all-ages” event, with amazing performances including original acoustic music, dance, and other surprises from talented EYE members and friends. This will be followed by local dance band “Five Dollar Billie” and a set by young DJs “Thing One and Thing Two”. Delicious food and drinks will be available for purchase. The doors open at 6:30 for a 7:00 start, with entry being $8 for under 18s and $12 for over 18s. See you there!…
One last flourish before the holidays
The weather is definitely heating up, so our attention has turned to nice, shady, inspirational spaces for both people and plants through the summer.
We have been designing shade-houses, frog ponds and seating circles. Most garden bed areas are nearing completion, so next term, as things heat-up, the only way is up, baby!
Japanese inspiration
This week we took inspiration from Masanobu Fukuoka, author of “The One-Straw Revolution” and founder of Do-Nothing Agriculture. Fukuoka would make clay seed-balls to scatter his crops in the field, this would protect them from birds and rodents, while the seeds would sprout from the balls after a good rain… We thought it sounded like a fun idea, so we are giving it a shot.
Our table is looking shiny and so close to being finished and there is more produce than ever to take home.
EYE will see you at the Bellingen Energy Festival
The annual Bellingen Energy Festival is on tomorrow – Saturday, 3 Sept – at the Bellingen Showgrounds. Looking for more EYEs to help out at the gate, and to gather signatures for the Plastic Bag Petition. Come find us at the Transition Bellingen tent.
With hard work comes a flourishing garden!
Expanding out towards the eastern border of the garden we continued to build our straight beds and plant them out with beans surrounding our bamboo tripods and Yacon; or Peruvian Ground Apples.
Hayley, Lewis and Shanteya continued to work on our amazing (though very heavy) picnic table and chairs while the rest of the group kept up the maintenance of the mandala garden mulching, watering and scattering seed.
Spring is on its way
It was time to turn our compost piles, and one careful observer suggested moving the pile onto the mandala beds. So now we have two massive compost hills in the middle of the garden & each time it rains, all of that compost-ie goodness soaks down and feeds the soil!
More seedlings go in each week and the bench seats are almost finished… Soon we will be sitting comfortably, munching on fresh greens and continuing to vision up an amazing future!
Bushwalk AND Landcare on this coming Sunday….
hey all, lots on in the great outdoors this coming Sunday. The EYE Bushwalking Group is making another attempt to climb McGraths Hump……. and our monthly EYE Landcare Working Bee is on, meeting at The Point at 9:00 am. Let’s just hope it stops raining for the day!!
Seats, scraps and seedlings
I bet you’re thinking, “when would all those hard working gardeners have a chance to even think about sitting down!” Luckily, amidst the buzz of garden-building activity, we have kept one eye on the importance of sitting, observing and relaxing…
Thanks to John for helping us learn new skills and create beautiful seating spaces for the garden.
Momentum continues to grow as new beds are planted out each week, we grow more seeds in our own little nursery and we redirect more waste away from landfill. Nice work with the food scraps Indigo!
Soil-building for happy veggies
Soil building was the name of the game today, with the mandala beds and the raised beds getting special treatment.
Following on from our compost building, we wanted to give the new garden beds some nurturing to boost the soil life and get our veggies ready for the start of spring. So we added seaweed, lime, fire-clay, chook manure, and plenty of mulch… Feed the soil and it will feed the plants!