EYE Food
Bellingen EYE has been working with a grant from the NSW Government Better Futures Program on a food garden and life skills project.
We are working with the Community Garden Association to build the Bellingen High School Community Garden and will be running a series of workshops through 2011. You can find the garden by taking the Crown St entrance to the school. On the right-hand side of the driveway you’ll see our pizza oven and lots of happy plants.
A great group of young people are involved, sharing ideas and getting the goodness growing. We have built our pizza oven and held a number of pizza-fueled events; crafted an amazing outdoor setting from local timbers; and continue to harvest delicious fresh food every week…Everybody is welcome, so come along and get involved!
To help EYE keep this amazing project running, please follow the link to the Support EYE page
For any further information, contact Olivia or Benn
Mob: 0408 322 393
email: food4lyf@bellingeneye.com |
 Find the High School Garden here
Upcoming Events
Every Wednesday of term
12:50 – 1:30 (lunch)
Planning Meeting – Snacks & Chai!
Wednesday’s Sport
1:30 – 3:20 (period 5 & 6)
Talk to Mr Bennet if you haven’t booked your place yet
Every second Thursday (week B)
11:15 – 12:45
with Mrs McAulay’s mosaic class |
Latest EYEFood News
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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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