A cheery hello to all our great readers for our last blog for 2012.We hope you have had a most enjoyable Christmas Season. For those of you who do not particularly celebrate Christmas, we trust you are enjoying the break.
Given you will be receiving this in your inbox on New Year’s Day, we at Gold Coast Permaculture wish you all a Happy New Year and a cracker of a 2013.
Over the holiday break we have been been making some additions to our site and would like to bring them to your attention.
Sylvia, Our President
We would first invite you to check out the new additions under the “About” tag where we provide introductions to our committee. Introducing our committee is something we have been getting around to doing for some time. Better late than never right? Here you can catch a profile of our Executive members as well as check out what our committee members are up to in their lives inside and outside of Gold Coast Permaculture.
Kurt, one or our earliest and strongest supporters through his company Tapping Solutions Australia
Then there are lists of our supporter and partner organisations. This is a great way to say “thank you” to the many many people and organisations who have and still do go out of their way to support us and make life so much easier for Gold Coast Permaculture volunteers and the work that is being carried out by them. Some or our supporters are also active ‘partners’. Partners are a group of people and organisations with whom we love to interact and to whom we provide as much support as we are able.
The Permablitz Crew at Mel’s in early December 2012
Then, there is the “Get Involved” heading where you will find information on four great programmes that Gold Coast Permaculture has initiated. The community garden and permablitzes are a smidge ‘old hat’ but integral to what we do as a group. We now have upwards of 46 community gardeners growing their own vegetables at 270 Ferry Road. This is an amazing development and has all been done in the last 12 months. We currently have people wait-listed for a garden and some who have joined the Ashmore Community Garden. ACG currently grows vegetables communally and has two large beds for this purpose at 270 Ferry Road. Contact details for them can be found under the Community Garden tag
SEW is now a going concern and attracts upwards of 30-40 participants every second Monday.The group has only been operating for eight weeks and has truly proved popular.
The food club is almost there and we will be promulgating details of this initiative in the early part of 2013.
All Sorts of Herbs are Produced by Dan
We have also updated the “For Sale” section and in there you will find a newly updated list of herbs grown and sold by Dan the Herb Man who provides an extensive variety of culinary and medicinal herbs as well as grows vegetable seedlings to order.
Gardening supplies are much of what we are about at Gold Coast Permaculture as we are madly composting and producing the activated compost we use ourselves in our gardens. This is also available to the public as well as mushroom compost and composted blood and bone. Both of these products we purchase from the source and they are transported to our site in a truck running on biodiesel. Probably the only one and if not, certainly the largest one doing so on the Gold Coast.
Finally, under the For Sale tab you will also find our newly added honey section. Here you can find a small but tasty selection of honey products including wild, raw and cold pressed honey. This is the specialty of our natural beekeeping efforts with Warre hives at 270 Ferry Road. We consider this to be the best tasting honey produced by the happiest bees on the Gold Coast. These bees are totally laid back and allowed to express their beeness in all the things they do. As a result, our production figures are not up to industrial type bee keeping, but the taste is sensational. This honey is also available at Canvas Coffee Shop, Lavarack Avenue, Nobby’s Beach.
We hope you enjoy the stroll through the site and look forward to keeping you updated with all that is happening at Gold Coast Permaculture in the current year.
