Community lunch and spring celebrations

The next event organised by the Otford Community and Garden Association will be a community 'déjeuner au jardin' or 'mad-hatter' lunch.

We have set ourselves the challenge to cook a big Paella and an even bigger apple crumble. We'll try to source most of the ingredients locally or at least to be able to know their story.

We invite you to bring some ingredients from your garden to make a few salads.

To add to the fun of the day, there will be a bread making competition (a recipe will be provided, watch this space), an art workshop and the inauguration of the garden with the spring plantings.

More information HERE.

Conditions:
Price: $5 for non OCGA member ($18 for family - more than 3) - $10 per member ($20 per family - more than 3)
Booking online here or email here, you'll receive the bank account details to be

Winter rosters

Hi

We have planted everything, and we are waiting for the Kale and the Potatoes to grow. There is no need to water, but weeding can be handy, as well as making sure all items are kept in safe order and needed weeding is done. In addition, it can be good to check the stage of growth and the possible need for early cropping/protection...

Members are asked to have a 'garden week'. I list below a possible roster and will try to update it depending on your feedback and new members. I only put on the roster people who sign up to be active member or who clearly expressed the interest and will soon fill their form. If you are not on the list and if you want to help, email here and/or contact the person on the roaster.

July - 1 to 7: Gaetane
July - 8 to 14: James
July - 15 to 21: Adam
July - 22 to 28: Lachlan
July - 29 to 4: Paul & Pauline
August - 5 to 11: Phil & Karen
August - 12 to 18: Bron
August - 19 to 25: Sarah

Sunday 1 September: Back to usual WORKING BEE.

Saturday 21 Septmeber: SPRING PARTY

Cheers

Building with kids - phase 2

Amazing, it all came to life with the great support from A Garden For Life, The Art Box 2508 and Nurture in nature !-)

Building phase one - done

Plant sale, last days to order

Hi all,

We are ordering a bunch of trees for our Permaculture garden. Meanwhile, we are happy to order more for you. They'll be available at the second workshop at the latest (Saturday 25 May in Otford).
We can also add DWARF MANDARIN.
Most should be suitable for pots.
They are coming from a good nursery in NSW and are suitable for this area.
Order at otford.garden@gmail.com by Friday 3 May 2013

Species			Pot size (mm)	Supplier*	OCAGA fundraising sale price $
Citrus	Cumquat	Nagami cumquat	165	Old Farm	26.50
	Lemon	Eureka	165	Old Farm
		Meyer	165	Old Farm
		Dwarf Meyer	165	Old Farm
	Limes	Tahitian	165	Old Farm
		Dwarf Tahitian	165	Old Farm
	Mandarins	Clementine	165	Old Farm
		Emperor	165	Old Farm
		Silverhill	165	Old Farm
		Imperial	165	Old Farm
	Orange	Leng Navel	165	Old Farm
		Seedless Valencia	165	Old Farm
		Washington Navel	165	Old Farm
Tree	Lilli Pilli	Small leaf lilli pilli	200	Old Farm	11

Landcare grant

We have a Landcare grant, and we should start the work !-)

As you can see here, we have been granted a Landcare grant. It is supposed to help us design and build a garden with and for the community and particularly children.

As under the license we have with Council, we also have a new space a the back of the space. So we are revisiting the design discussed in our previous permaculture workshop (cf former blog on the Website).
With the help of Narelle Happ (from A Garden For Life), we'll now organise the following workshops - free for members:

• Saturday 16 March 2013 - 10am to 12pm - What is Permaculture / A proposed design for the garden / Listing the details of all the materials and steps. We'll also have a quick lunch and we'll finish mulching the lantana we removed a few weeks ago.

• Saturday 11th of May 2013: Building phase - all day from 11 am.
• Sunday 25th of May 2013: Planting workshop - al day from 11 am.

Any questions?

We need to prepare the soil, and so we have to mulch the Lantana. So if you want to contribute, drop us a line (otford.garden at gmail.com). YES A BIT OF YOUR TIME AND STRENGHT WILL DO A LOT FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

New design- new space

Two weeks ago, the boys cleared more than 25 sq meters of Lantana and other bush. Now we're mulching all this and measuring up everything in order to finalise a nice design including: garden beds, fruits trees, herbs, sitting area, watering, and all this kids friendly.

SO CALL TO EVERY MEMBERS- We need to:

• Finish the mulching (contact Gaetane/Andrew or Adriana/Giles to access the mulcher (run on unleaded and oil))
• Turn the soil

This can be done every friday evening and sunday evening for the coming 3 weeks.

Regarding the design and building of a real garden, save the following dates:

• 16 or 17th of March - Permaculture design workshop (30 min on permaculture and 1h30 on how this will be practically applier to our site)
• Sunday 5th of May - Foundation workshop (building beds and the sitting area)
• Sunday 19th of May - Finishing workshop (painting involved and kids workshops involved)