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The Grow Grow Grow Your Own workshops commenced in 2014 and have continued each year since then, with the support of the City of Unley. These events educate and inspire home gardeners in the Unley area and beyond to grow more of their food at home. To find out about future workshops, please check our… Read more
Report by Peter Croft on recent Unley Group activities. In previous updates, we talked about our focus on food security as a practical way of connecting with the concept of sustainability: as the world population grows from 7 billion now to (a likely) 9 billion by 2050, where will our food come from? In our… Read more
The 2nd of the free 2016 Workshop Series is coming up: 3pm Sunday 1 May 2016 at Unley Community Centre TOPIC: Getting your soil right and managing pests Bring soil samples from your garden and examples of your pest problems. FREE – thanks to a generous City of Unley grant. Please register to attend this workshop at peter.croft@mmc.com.au or on 0401 122 Vegetable… Read more
Learn how you can do more to grow food locally and increase food security! Join us to hear Peter Croft talk about Sustainable Communities SA Unley Groups activities over the past 2 years in gaining local government support, distributing garden kits to residents and providing a series of highly successful workshops to educate people on food growing…. Read more
by Andrew Tidswell, Blackwood Sustainable Communities Group This article appeared on page 5 of Adelaide East Herald, 8 April 2021 For the first time in over 100 years the population of Australia is declining. The main reason for our past population increasing has been immigration, which has… Read more
The Felixstow Grow Cart (Shirley Avenue, Felixstow) was made following a suggestion by Monica (One Planet Market co-ordinator) for the need to have alternative means of sharing with, and supporting our community, while our usual market outlets are suspended. It has been a community effort, made almost entirely from recycled materials. Our local Neighbourhood Watch… Read more
At One Planet Market on 20 October 2018, Jess Bamford offered a workshop on growing mushrooms at home. She explained what a fungus is, how they grow and eat and how to get started in growing edible varieties. The main method covered was using pasteurised straw or sugarcane mulch to grow oyster mushrooms, instructions for which can be found at: naturalismedica.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/july-mushroom-grow-a-quick-guide-to-growing-oyster-mushrooms…. Read more
Grow Grow Grow Your Own is working in the City of Unley, encouraging people to grow more of their own food at home. This group has worked with the council on the development of its Food Security Strategy. The Affordable Gardening Kits Project was awarded City of Unley Community Event of the Year in the… Read more
Fifth of the 2018 free workshop series, held Sunday 19 August 2018 at Unley Community Centre, 18 Arthur Street, Unley. Chris Bryant and John Boland presented a fantastic workshop to over 75 people including Dr Lewis O’Brien – Kaurna elder. Chris outlined the native edible plants in their garden: purslane in pots, macadamias, kangaroo apple,… Read more
The Unley community groups, in particular the Grow Grow Grow Your Own group, of Sustainable Communities SA have been working with their local council on the issue of food security for a while now. The group has been running gardening workshops to increase people’s skills in growing their own food and to create a community… Read more
Keen to start sustainably producing food at home, but don’t know how or want to know more? The Botanic Gardens of South Australia have invited Sophie Thomson of SA to present the Get Growing Masterclass at Adelaide Botanic Garden on Sunday 24 July 2016. For more information go to Get Growing Masterclass
The successful Grow, grow, grow workshop series continues in 2016, encouraging and informing people who want to grow more of their food at home. Our first workshop for this year will be held at 3pm Sunday 6 March 2016 at Unley Community Centre, 18 Arthur Street, Unley Our focus will be on how your garden went this summer: what… Read more