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RIG News – June 2013, RIG Network’s Bi-monthly Newsletter, No.25 1
Food and other things… Its getting hard to keep up, with much change going on in Canberra and elsewhere, not least of which in the food sector.
The Australian Government has released Australia’s first ever National Food Plan to help ensure that the government’s food policy settings are right for Australia over the short, medium and long term. The National Food Plan is described as a roadmap that sets the direction for government policy on food into the future, providing one of the key pillars for achieving the goals of the white paper, Australia in the Asian Century. Nine new initiatives were announced as part of the plan. The Community Food Grants program, that many RIG News readers have submitted applications to, is one of these.
The National Food Plan was released by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig, on 25 May 2013 at Rocklea Markets, Brisbane. On July 1, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP Federal Member for Hunter was sworn in as the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on 1 July 2013.
Against this background, the most recent meeting of the Northern Australian Ministerial Forum was held in Cairns on June 13 and 14. Prof Patrick Dodson, Chair of the Indigenous Experts Forum provided Ministers with a report from the Second Indigenous experts meeting that was held in Jabiru, 30 April 2 May and reported on April’s RIG News. Ministers also received a briefing from the Expert Advisory Panel, led by Prof Allan Dale, Cairns Institute, James Cook University on land tenure and water reform. The diversity of tenure types across northern Australia has created considerable complexity and were noted as a potential barrier to economic
development. Ministers agreed to release a paper prepared by the Expert Panel on these issues.
Ministers also noted progress achieved to implement the Northern Australia Beef Industry Action Agenda and an update on the North Queensland Irrigated Agriculture Strategy was also discussed. The QLD Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, the Hon Andrew Cripps, indicated that results of this work due by the end of the year will assist in informing his decision about the possible release of more water from the Flinders and Gilbert catchments.
Debate continues about northern economic developments, especially those that focus on the food sector and the appropriate scale and focus of possible developments and their respective viability. The Coalition’s 2030 Vision for Developing Northern Australia was released on June 21 and includes ‘developing a food bowl, including premium produce, which could help to double Australia’s agricultural output’ among highlights actions it proposes (to view the press release and download the document here). Further fuel for debate and food for thought.
This edition of RIG News includes news about:
The Gimuy Fish and Food Festival
Allan Savory, Holistic Management tour
Kids teaching kids, award winning indigenous environmental education
New gardening & learning resources
Two aquaponic training courses…& more.
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News from the Remote Indigenous Gardens Network – www.remoteindigenousgardens.net
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The Gimuy Fish and Food Festival 2013, August 15, Cairns
The Gimuy Fish and Food Festival 2013 is a celebration of culture, community and culinary delights.
Gimuy people (the Traditional Owners of Cairns) invite all who love and cherish this region to unite on issues of sustainability, indigenous biocultural diversity and natural wealth. It is important all understand that healthy land and sea means healthy foods.
This year the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji community has invited Seith Fourmile and the Abriculture team to coordinate the Gimuy Fish and Food Festival. The Festival will be held at Fogarty Park on Thursday August 15, 11am – 6pm. There will be information stalls with opportunities to talk to people working on practical grassroots projects in food production, conservation, rehabilitation and traditional land and sea management along with childrens activities, traditional dancers and cultural performances.
Gimuy have invited three Chefs teams to battle for the 2013 Gimuy Cook Off Crown. The 2012 Cook off Challenge was snatched by Ochre Restaurant chef Craig Squire and this year it is up to the public to decide if he still meets the mark. There will be 200 free lunch tickets available to sample the sustainable seafood feast and vote for who is the best Chef in town. Coles are supplying all sustainable seafood
and other ingredients for the cook off challenge.
If you are working with the Gimuy community and other indigenous communities on conservation and land management projects and would like to participate by setting up a stall to inform people about your work please contact the organisers. They are particularly interested in food programs, gardens, native nurseries, rehabilitation projects and indigenous employment initiatives.
The day will round off with the Yidinji Corroboree Circle bringing together Yidinji dancers from the many different clans to perform the stories of the landscapes and the history of the Yidinji people of Cairns and surrounding areas. They will showcase the many different dances and customs of Yidinji people with the colourful systematic designs of the Yidinji rainforest shields.
The Festival is sponsored by GBRMPA, Coles and Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CAIF) and supported by the Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, DERM, DAFF, Girringun and Cairns Regional Council. There is no charge to have an information stall but donations are welcome and will be used to support smaller community and cultural groups to attend. To host a stall, donate or otherwise contribute please contact [email protected]
Allan Savory, Australian Tour - August 2013 Allan Savory is the Founder of Holistic Management a decision-making framework used world wide that mimics patterns in nature to pro-actively regenerate grasslands, watersheds and rural community integrity. Advocates of this technique range from Professor Tim Flannery to HRH Prince Charles. Over 2 million people have viewed Allan's recent TED talk 'Greening the Desert: how to fight desertification and reverse climate change' see http://on.ted.com/Savory and for more on Holistic Management see http://www.savoryinstitute.com. At age 76 Allan will not likely be returning to Australia too often. In August he will present talks and seminars at major rural centres including Warwick, Lismore, Orange, Byron Bay, Dubbo, Mataranka in the NT and at Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. To access dates and details for each venue visit http://www.insideoutsidemgt.com.au/news-feeds
Many people are making Alan’s Australian tour possible. The O’Brien family from Coodardie & Numul Numul Stations, NT, are part of the team welcoming Alan to Mataranka. Save the date! A
day with Allan Savory – carbon, cattle and creating true capital, Tues 13
th August 2013 at the
Mataranka Hall, NT. Thanks to Territory NRM there are 16 places available for NT Land Managers. Contact Clair O’Brien (clair(at)bigpond.com) to discuss these opportunities or your Landcare or Rangeland management about similar assistance. Fellow participants at the Mataranka event will include key decision makers and influencers of policy and future direction across North Australia. Miners, rangers, scientists, shire councils, farmers and cattlemen – anyone interested in the future prosperity of the North – are urged to attend and contribute to an event that provides a unique chance to blend local knowledge with proven innovation.
The innovators from RegenAG® in partnership with Milkwood will present Allan Savory’s series of urban presentations: Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. See http://regenag.com/web/. These talks and seminars are for city folk and farmers who are ready to engage with a solutions-based, biological approach to repair our planet and build resilience for future generations. As RegenAG says, ‘If you eat, you should come’.
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Pilot gardening program for asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants
Putting Down Roots with Cultivating Community Peta Christensen is the Food Systems Projects and Partnerships Leader with Melbourne based NGO Cultivating Community. Peta has recently joined the RIG Advisory Group and I’m really looking forward working with her to expand RIG Network’s connections with innovative urban and regional food projects and people. Peta kindly provided the following story that illustrates how garden based programs can foster social inclusion and create connections to enhance wellbeing. Cultivating Community is a Melbourne based NGO who has been working on urban agriculture and community food projects including community gardens, school gardens, food waste and composting programs, community kitchens and a range of other sustainable food and social justice initiatives for over a decade.
We’ve been part of many inspiring projects over the years however last year we got to work on a small but powerful initiative that really made us remember the deep rooted benefits of growing your own food. Cultivating Community teamed up with the Red Cross and CERES Environment Park to deliver Putting Down Roots, a wonderful pilot program dreamed up by two passionate young Red Cross Case Managers who could see the enormous potential of gardening and food growing to assist Asylum Seekers and other vulnerable migrants.
Putting Down Roots aimed to increase the social and emotional well-being of participants and provide the means for people to have additional access to fresh and nutritious food.
About 30 people took part in the program which involved attending an eight week horticulture course at CERES. The gardeners were then either connected with a plot in a community garden or a small garden was installed at the participant’s accommodation. Participants came from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya which made for a very diverse, delicious end of program feast and celebration!
Quite a few of the participants were highly experienced gardeners with one man from Sudan being an agronomist however even the very experienced gardeners came along each week to socialize with other gardeners, learn about access to affordable or free food across the city and to find out about gardening practices in Australia. A Sri Lankan woman who had been self-sufficient in her homeland talked about having goats and chickens for her manure so the very idea of going to the nursery and buying a bag of poo was completely new to her!
Each participant had a Red Cross Volunteer Mentor that supported them in their garden endeavor for the duration of the 6-month pilot, meeting regularly at the participant’s home or community garden to help establish and maintain their gardens. Volunteer Mentors also attended the CERES training course to provide additional support and encouragement.
The program resulted in a number of unanticipated benefits for participants. Some gained a little employment or work experience with Lucas our garden builder; one participant volunteers a morning a week at Ceres Fair Food, and another participant who was a bee keeper in Iran now has a bee hive at his place and has been fully kitted out courtesy of local bee keeping suppliers.
Cultivating Community is hopeful additional funding can be secured in order to run this wonderful program again.
For more information on the program including participants stories and profiles visit: http://blog.redcross.org.au/category/program-blogs/putting-down-roots/. For more information about Cultivating Community visit: www.cultivatingcommunity.org.au
Pictured left: some of the participants home gardens. Image kindly provided with permission, Peta Christensen.
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News from around the network
Growing Communities, Brisbane Growing Communities Learning in the Garden National Seminar 2013, Brisbane June 3-4, drew together 100 or more garden educators over two days of presentations and interactive workshops. There were many highlights that you can read more about by visiting the Growing Communities website at www.growingcommunities.org.au where you can view some of the presentations. My warm thanks to Giuliano and all at Growing Communities for the chance to attend and to contribute to the program. It was a great opportunity to at last meet people I’ve known by email for quite a while! Carolyn Nuttall, who with Janet Millington wrote Outdoor Classrooms: a handbook for school gardens, Erica Blumson from Gulf Kids, and Wendy Hughes from Shepherdson College who won the ALPA 40
th Anniversary EduGrow School Garden Awards in 2012.
Dr Tim Heard’s workshop on native stingless bees demonstrated how to care for and to split hives to expand these precious ‘social pollinator’ bee populations was one highlight. So too, the talk by Ruth Vickery from Redland City Council Indigiscapes environmental education centre on ‘Bush foods and medicines from the Redlands’ along with the workshops Ruth ran on how to propagate some key bush food species. One exceptional workshop was on the ‘Gwongubunga – little River’ project. Led by students from Silkwood School, the workshop introduced Silkwood’s place based approach to environmental indigenous studies. Working with Indigenous mentors and advisers to learn about their environment, the two-way learning project has been built around inspiring young people to build connections to their local environments and waterways through indigenous knowledge' projects. I thought RIG readers might enjoy learning more about this project and the learning approaches that it involves. The following story has been compiled from stories and other materials kindly provided, with permission, by students from Silkwood School and Kalindi Brennan, their teacher, coordinator and director of the project. Special thanks to Harper Ashton, Sophie Dye and Kalindi.
Award winning school environmental program
Silkwood Schools ‘Gwongubunga - little River’ program Do you want clean and healthy waterways; opportunities to connect to nature in meaningful ways and a future that holds great environmental abundance and security? Well, Silkwood School knows how to make this happen. They were recently recognised for their waterways health achievements when they became the extremely proud winners of not one, but two Healthy Waterways awards at the SE Qld ceremony in Brisbane on 31st May, at the Healthy Waterways Awards 2013. They received the award for Sustainable Education and also the Minister’s Grand Prize for the most innovative project in all categories! Silkwood School is a small independent school at the back of Mt Nathan that is making a big name for itself when it comes to environmental education and wellbeing in nature. Silkwood School is part of Kombumerri country and the wider Yugambeh language region, which includes the Gold Coast, Scenic Rim and Logan regions. We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of this land and their capacity and resilience as indigenous custodians. Groups of students have found mentors and created workshops to teach other students and teachers about how to connect to their local waterways and environment through indigenous knowledge. The project was created with a purpose to educate and inspire others, using indigenous techniques to share knowledge and environmental awareness. With great enthusiasm and commitment, the girls have successfully educated many people, including students (both at Silkwood and from other schools), educators and even visiting environmental & indigenous experts. Silkwood’s environmental indigenous workshops aim to show others that it is possible to connect to their local environment, no matter where they are, with a variety of learning techniques integrating local indigenous knowledge. Silkwood’s workshop consists of hands-on learning strategies such as intrapersonal development (message stones and sensory stories), kinaesthetic learning (sharing knowledge physically and allowing the participants to have a ‘real’ experience) and visual spatial learning (art in nature). One of these workshops, ‘Gwongubunga - little River’, was presented to teachers & gardening experts at the ‘2013 Learning in the Garden - Growing Communities Conference’ in Brisbane. Four students, Briody Fahey, Sophie Dye, Shamika Thomas-Pacnik and Kalila Purtle, facilitated the workshop for educators – kids teaching adults! One of the adult participants was none other than Costa Georgiadis, of Gardening Australia.
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Over the last few years Silkwood School has been actively improving the beautiful environment that surrounds their facilities. The habitats that have been created and maintained are planted out with native Australian flora. 7000 native plants have been planted over the past three years, including numerous bush tucker and indigenous technology plants. As the plants take off, they are attracting many endangered and threatened species, such as the Glossy Black cockatoo, the Richmond Birdwing butterfly and the Eastern Sedge frog. Local mentors have been brought on board, children create workshops to educate other students and adults, and local indigenous knowledge is respectfully integrated. All of Silkwood’s hard work is not only providing amazing habitats and an accessible abundance of life to enjoy in outdoor ‘learn-scapes’, but is also giving their lucky students & school visitors authentic, hands-on learning experiences in nature, providing many distinctive resources and learning connections to engage with along the way. If you have a look at the link below – you’ll get a snapshot of our beautiful place – this professionally filmed 4 min film was directed by a group of senior primary students also featured in the film. It’s in HD, so let it download first. Spirit of Silkwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSozS_AqOAo&feature=plcp This 4 minute film highlights the natural learning features of Silkwood School, where learning is an adventure in itself. Two flowing creeks, native bushland and habitats, abundant birdlife and native creatures make our school surrounds their home. This film will take you on a journey through our interpretive bush trail, so you can see Silkwood’s beauty for yourself. We love to learn and explore in our natural learnscapes and we are focused on building connections to our local environment through indigenous knowledge. At Silkwood, kids teach kids how to connect with their environment. We’ve done our research, found community mentors and created workshops to run for other kids; even from other schools! At Silkwood, we connect to our unique environment everyday and do our bit to live clean and green. What is the spirit of Silkwood? Be inspiring, get connected, make a difference!
Pictured above left: Silkwood students learn from a mentor Above right: Silkwood learnscape class Left: Silkwood workshop leaders with one of their well known students, Costa, at Growing Communities Learning in the Garden National Seminar, Brisbane. Images with kind permission Kalindi Brennan.
If you would like to learn more about 'Gwongubunga - little river - inspiring young people to build connections to their local environments and waterways through indigenous knowledge’, please contact Kalindi directly.
email: [email protected]
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More news from around the network…
Shaun Fowler’s new business – Right Hand Remote Solutions
Shaun Fowler is a long time supporter of RIG Network. Readers may recall the Darwin Region CDEP Network event Best Practice and New Opportunities – Local Food Gardens, Food Systems and Horticulture held in November 2010 that Shaun coordinated with input from RIG Network members and contributors.
Tropical Garden Spectacular, Darwin This years Tropical Garden Spectacular, June 1-2, with the theme of Let’s Have a Garden Party! had a joyful vibe, great community café, community and schools precinct, numerous Landscape Olympics competitions (one for local politicians and one for local schools…), talking circles, panel discussions, cooking and numerous gardening demonstrations such as the excellent one on how to create a no dig garden that Daniel from Aweganic Gardens led in the community precinct on Sunday. Congratulations to all of the organisers and everyone who made it such an informative, enjoyable two days.
Shaun has recently established Right Hand Remote Solutions to provide a broad range of strategic and operational support and project management solutions to organisations delivering government funded employment services, particularly in the rural and remote sector. Shaun brings in excess of 13 years ‘hands on’ industry experience and will initially focus on supporting Providers delivering the Federal Government’s Remote Jobs and Communities Program. For further information and to contact Shaun, please refer to his website – www.therighthand.com.au
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New Gardening and Learning Resources
Coming soon: The No-mower Food Grower’s Guide – designing edible landscapes for the wet-dry tropics, Wendy Seabrook with John Brisbin and Roger Goebel This guide to designing edible landscapes in the Wet-Dry Tropics will soon be available for download from the RIG Network website. The handbook will take you through a simple design process to create edible landscapes where working with nature is your key to growing food with less hard yakka. Nature has had millions of years to fine tune the process of designing ecosystems. We can start to do the same by designing our edible landscapes using ecological science to tap into nature’s wisdom. Healthy natural ecosystems, from rainforests to desert scrublands, don’t need someone to spread mulch, they do it themselves. Leaves fall continuously from above, adding free, endless sources of mulch, feeding soil organisms. This sort of self-management is what we aim for in edible landscapes. This handbook will take you through a design process that can be used by people developing community gardens, orchards, market gardens, their back gardens, and, for those folk who would like to go further, creating edible landscapes mimicking natural vegetation communities in their area – food growing ecosystems. This publication was made possible through the Healthy Communities Bloomfield Track Initiative funded by the Australian Government. Supported by Cook Shire Council and the Gungarde Community Centre. About the authors:
Dr Wendy Seabrook is an ecologist with 25 years experience applying her expertise to the regeneration of natural communities and food growing ecosystems and helping others to do the same. She is applying her passion for continuous learning to Hill Top Farm, a patch of paradise just north of Cooktown.
John Brisbin is a knowledge systems architect and local food activist with a life-long attraction to kitchen gardens. He and his family are growing soil, sustenance, and social networks in suburban MT Molloy, just a few hours south of Cooktown.
Roger Goebel is the developmental horticulturalist at Etty Bay Exotics. Roger has over 30 years experience in north Queensland and in tropical environments around the world. He is breathing abundant life back into a retired cane property south of Townsville.
Coming soon: Twelve Fact Sheets - nutritious leafy green vegetables for tropical areas Roger Goebels is a regular contributor to RIG News and events. Working with Graham Lyons (Project Leader, University of Adelaide) and Mary Taylor (Powys, UK, Pacific Crop Germplasm/Agricultural Development Consultant) Roger has contributed to the preparation of twelve Fact Sheets that we hope to soon share via the RIG website. The Fact Sheets are outputs from the Feasibility study on increasing the consumption of nutritionally-rich leafy vegetables by indigenous communities in Samoa, Solomon Islands and Northern Australia. The study was funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Dr Richard Markham (ACIAR Pacific Crops Research Program Manager, Suva) contributed the concept and much encouragement to the project. The Fact Sheets provide information on some of the most nutritious leafy green vegetables suitable for growing in tropical areas. They are the product of the above project whose aims were:
To identify leafy vegetables with the potential to improve human nutrition, and thus health
To develop a strategy to raise awareness of the health benefits of leafy vegetables, to encourage increased production and consumption.
Available now: Let’s Dig – A school garden resource. This resource was first produced in 2012 to support the pilot Top End Remote School Garden Project, which was a collaboration between the Northern Territory’s Departments of Education and Children’s Services (DECS), Primary Industry and Fisheries (DPIF), Health (DoH) and the Menzies School of Health Research. It forms part of the Remote Schools kitchen garden program that the Northern Territory’s Departments of Education and Children’s Services (DECS) is co-ordinating in 2013. The resource contains 4 key components: Nutrition; Gardening; Food Safety and Cooking. These are designed to encourage and support interest in healthy eating, food production and cooking. A range of additional resources are also highlighted to assist teachers, along with ideas or activities to run for each component of a School Garden unit of work and extension activities for those more capable students. This resource is suitable for Transition
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through to Year 6 students. It is expected teachers will expand the ideas to suit the learning needs of their students. Download Lets Dig at :http://health.nt.gov.au/Nutrition_and_Physical_Activity/Publications/index.aspx
Coming Events
Aquaponics Workshop – Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, 13 July. Thanks to Murri Munchies connections for news of this coming event. Andrew Dezsery is principal at #1 Aquaponics and Aquaculture, a qualified trainer and assessor, and an industry leader of integrated food sciences who has published widely and appeared on programs such as Landline, WIN TV, ABC Rural TV and various radio programmes. He will be joined by experts from the public, private and research sectors to present a full and fun day of aquaponics learning at the Wirrina Conference Centre near the rugged SA Fleurieu Peninsula coastline on 13 July. The workshop is described as a great starting point for teachers and community group leaders who want to start an aquaponic garden. For further information go to www.1aquaponics.com.au or call 08 6365 5404.
Aquaponics Training Course – Alice Springs, 20 and 21 July. Murray Hallam from Practical Aquaponics will facilitate a two day training course in Alice Springs on July 20 and 21, 9:00am – 5:00pm. The courses will be run in collaboration with the Purple House. Saturday July 20: introduction and how to set up small systems. Sunday July 21: Intermediate Course. More advanced and more technical. Cost $100 a day or $175 for 2 days. More info. Practical Aquaponic http://www.aquaponics.net.au/ For more information and bookings contact: Cassandra Douglas-Hill, Project officer, desertSMART COOLmob & ALEC [email protected]. Limited spots – RSVP by 18th July
desertSMART EcoFair 2013 – Participate, Learn, Create! 9 – 11 August The fifth desertSMART EcoFair will be held at Olive Pink Botanic Gardens. More than 2000 people attended last years’ event. 2013 will see the desertSMART EcoFair continue to grow as Central Australia’s premier sustainability event. Participate, Learn, Create is the events vision - there are ample opportunities for the community to participate, learn, network and collaborate. This years’ special guests include Tanya Ha, Catalyst reporter and sustainability advocate, Rod Quantock, comedian and climate change commentator, Amelia Telford, Australian Youth Climate Coalition Indigenous Youth Leader and Antarctic Youth Ambassador, Bill Gammage, author of ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ and last years’ popular guest Costa Georgiadis, from the ABC's Gardening Australia, is set to return.
This years’ desertSMART Ecofair program includes:
Friday 9th August: EcoScience Schools Day with local school groups & special guest Amelia Telford
Café Scientific - National Science Week Launch a free family afternoon tea and science quiz with prizes
desertSMART Gala Event with buffet, music and special guests Tanya Ha and Rod Quantock
Saturday 10th August: ‘The Science of Gardening’ with Costa Georgiadis, Alice Springs Community Garden
Alice Springs Bicycle Film Festival with bike films, food and fun!
Sunday 11th August: Eco-markets and Sustainable Living Festival with health, gardening and sustainability stalls, workshops, panels, food, music, competitions and demonstrations.
Registrations now open for stallholders for the Sunday Eco-markets, workshop providers, and volunteers. Register online at www.ecofair.org.au before Friday July 19. For more information: [email protected]
Kids Teaching Kids Week Event - 12th September, Darwin Rosebery Middle School, Darwin, will host a Target Kids Teaching Kids Week Event at their school to bring together schools and environmental organisations from across the region. Your school is invited to present on a local environmental topic or participate as audience members. The event will explore the diverse range of habitats and communities found in the top end. Student workshop presentations will investigate locally relevant environmental issues. This event is free and Teacher Relief Funding grants are also available to schools wishing to participate. The Kids Teaching Kids Education Team will be on-hand to support presenters. More information: [email protected]
Permaculture Design Course – Sept. 30 – Oct. 13, Rossville (near Cooktown). Ghost Gum Farm and Sustainability Alliance FNQ will host a 14 day intensive Permaculture Design Course (PDC) at Ghost Gum Farm 20 kilometres from Rossville. Internationally recognised permaculture trainer, Rick Coleman, from Southern Cross Permaculture Institute, will facilitate the course. For further information and booking inquiries contact: Scott White, SAFNQ PDC Community Project Manager, at Ghost Gum Farm. [email protected], http://www.ghostgumfarm.com.au/, http://www.sustainfnq.org/
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