[Pil-pc-oceania] School & Community Gardens Day @ Apollo Bay

[permaculture at apollobay.org.au]

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SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDENS DAY

When: 22-08-2007
from: 09:00 to 17:00

Where: Apollo Bay P-12 College, Penguilly Avenue, Apollo Bay,
Victoria,AUSTRALIA

With: John Champagne, Phil Gall, Fern Rainbow, Virginia Solomon, Eltham
College of Education's Colin Nightingale and Cultivating Community's Andrew
Wood, Heidi Sanghvi & Natasha Van Velzen

Fee: $80/ $120 (AUS)

Contact Name: Fern Rainbow
Contact Email: permaculture at apollobay.org.au
Contact Phone: 0425710380


Learn about Permaculture design for the school & community garden, and
conduct an actual site analysis and design on the day. 

Watch and help out with the Gardenwealth Games demonstration and
participate in Edible
Classroom activities with Cultivating Community’s Andrew Wood, Heidi
Sanghvi & Natasha Van Velzen. 

Learn about teaching Permaculture in schools with Virginia Solomon and
Colin Nightingale (Eltham College of Education).

Held at Apollo Bay P-12 College, the grade 5’s and the local community
garden group will share with you their exciting plans for a school &
community garden. Others will also share their school & community garden
projects happening across Australia.
 
Tutors & speakers on the day will include: John Champagne, Phil Gall,
Virginia Solomon, Colin Nightingale (Eltham College of Education),
Cultivating Community's Andrew Wood, Heidi Sanghvi & Natasha Van Velzen and
more!

Tutors & speakers on the day:

VIRGINIA SOLOMON was a member of the Reference Group which developed the
Accredited Permaculture Training Courses and has held several other
positions in permaculture circles. She has a background in vocational
training, landscape design and permaculture teaching/design as well as
training trainers to expand this work. Colin Nightingale will join
Virginia and outline Eltham College of Education's sustainability program
for Year 9 students that has run over the past 3 years and now has over 500
graduates of the Certificate I in Permaculture.

JOHN CHAMPAGNE, permaculture teacher, activist, ABC local radio presenter,
established Brogo Permaculture Gardens over 12 years. It now serves as one
of permaculture’s best examples of cool temperate design. John is founding
member of BEND [www.bend.org.au] and facilitated the design process of the
eco-neighbourhood in Bega.

PHIL GALL has been involved with environmental and sustainability activism
since the 1970s and an early pioneer of the permaculture movement. He is a
qualified Architect, Landscape Architect, teacher and permaculture
designer. Phil was fortunate to work with PA Yeomans and has a deep
understanding of the Keyline Planning System and swale construction. His
bio is so long its difficult to condense! He currently works in the Bega
Valley designing waste water treatment systems, ecological sustainable
housing design, whole farm planning and environmental assessment to comply
with council regulations. 

NATASHA VAN VELZEN & HEIDI SANGHVI are members of the Cultivating
Community Edible Classroom Team. They have both been teaching and
consulting in school garden programs for the past 5 years throughout
Melbourne including the very successful 'Kings Patch' @ Kings Park Primary
School and Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Project at Collingwood
College. Heidi has just returned from overseas with new inspiration to
share and is teaching at Fitzroy Primary School's Multicultural Kitchen
Garden. Tash is currently coordinating the Edible Classroom Pilot Program
that works closely with the students and wider school community of three
Melbourne schools in designing, constructing and integrating their own
Edible Classroom programs.

ANDREW WOODS is part of Cultivating Community Inc.’s “Edible Classroom”
team too. He’s been working in community development, education,
performing arts and permaculture for the last decade, and for Cultivating
community for the last five years. During that time he’s developed a number
of community garden projects in public housing estates in inner-city
Melbourne, and primary school “Edible Classrooms” in schools across the
city, including the innovative Parkhill Primary School project, which
comprises a weekly round of garden classes, a lunchtime Garden Club, a
regular community garden market, and monumental cooking!

FERN RAINBOW is an educator, project manager and natural therapist
specialised in oriental remedial therapies. She has a design background,
and acquired her permaculture design certificate in the late 90's. A past
president of Permaculture Melbourne Inc., she founded Otways & Coast
Permaculture Group and the SW Vic. Permaculture Network, and has been
living in the Otways & Coast bioregion for the past 6 years. Since 2004,
she has organised and run a multitude of community based permaculture
workshops & events in the Otways. She has also run her own specialist
workshops at various festivals (National Fiddle Festival, Apollo Bay Music
Festival) and at schools & education centres.

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