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

[pacific-edge]

Good morning Fern from a fine, sunny, warm, blue-sky Spring-like morning in
Sydney.

Just a brief note to let you know your event below will shortly appear on
the website of the community garens network.

...Russ

On 7/8/07 10:48 AM, "permaculture at apollobay.org.au"
<permaculture at apollobay.org.au> wrote:

> Please send this info through your networks:
> 
> 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 Community¹s 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 5¹s 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 permaculture¹s 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.¹s ³Edible Classroom²
> team too. He¹s 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 he¹s developed a number
> of community garden projects in public housing estates in inner-city
> Melbourne, and primary school ³Edible Classrooms² 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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