EYE is a group of inspired youth from the Bellingen Shire in New South Wales, Australia, who have a passion for our planet. We aim to strengthen the connections between youth and the natural world, while becoming empowered to lead the way to a more environmentally sustainable future.
EYE youth and mentors work together to provide adventurous and enlightening nature camps and leadershiptraining, run projects and campaigns, and participate in Landcare.
EYE is visioning up an amazing future. Please join us!
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, 15 Feb. Planning Meeting for “Bag It” film night. 5:00 pm at the BEC.
Dates coming soon for camps and bushwalks – keep checking back!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
