[Pil-pc-oceania] ACFCGN annual conference

[pacific-edge]

Cities Feeding People- 'grow it where you live!'

...the fourth annual conference of the Australian City Farms and Community
Gardens Network.

Still space available BOOK NOW, download registration form:
http://www.communitygarden.org.au/


This conference is extending the scope of past gatherings to include Food
Security, School Gardens and Seed Saving alongside the City Farms and
Community Gardening key themes. The first four days of the conference will
be held at the Collingwood Town Hall and environs.

This conference is proudly supported by VicHealth & brought to you by
the following organisations & a host of dedicated volunteers:
* SeedSavers Network
* CERES 
* Garden of Eden 
* Collingwood Children's Farm
* Cultivating Community

Day 1: School Gardens
Tuesday 20th March

Morning Plenary:   
9.00am-10.45am    
Ben Neil: Cultivating Community¹s Edible Classroom program  Ben is the CEO
of Cultivating Community and has been involved with the organisation for
almost 8 years. Passionate about many areas of Urban Agriculture and
Community Food systems he has supervised the growth of Cultivating
Community¹s schools programs from one school to eight. Ben will outline the
Edible Classrooms program and highlight Cultivating Community view that
diversity in school garden programs is to be celebrated. He has
qualifications in Horticulture, Permaculture and BioDynamics.

Sue Elliott: Creating connections with nature in the garden Sue has worked
in a variety of early childhood settings and lectured at the tertiary level
in early childhood training courses. She shares a passion for environmental
education and science education in her teaching. Sue is co-author of several
books including  "Just Discover: Connecting Young Children with the Natural
World" and "Early Childhood Environmental Education: Making It Mainstream"
and is editing a new publication entitled "The Outdoor Playspace:
Naturally". She conducted the first review of early childhood environmental
education in Australia for the NSW EPA in 2003 and now convenes the
Australian Association for Environmental Education Early Childhood Special
Interest Group. Currently, she is undertaking doctoral studies at the
University of New England, lectures at RMIT University and is an active
committee member of the Playground and Recreation Association of Victoria

Eric Bottomley: CERES Sustainable Schools - Grounds and Greenhouse Eric
Bottomed has taught geography, economics and environmental science in
schools for 20 years, and was coordinator of CERES Education for 13 years
before transferring in 2003 to his new role of Team Leader- CERES
Sustainability Projects. He has concurrently been a sessional lecturer and
tutor at the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash, and has twice
worked on secondment at the University of PNG. Formal qualifications include
Master Environmental Science, Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Auditing
Training Certificate, Teacher Training Certificate. Eric has written a
number of books on Development and Global Warming and has designed much of
the CERES Educational programs over a 13 year period. He has also presented
at a large number of environmental and educational conferences. He is
particularly interested in globalisation and localisation as well as a whole
range of resource use issues. Presently his major preoccupations are
establishing a $0.8 million water project at CERES; designing and
implementing the CERES-Gould League Sustainable Schools Program, which is a
pilot for the whole of Australia; and encouraging CERES type developments in
other locations.

Morning Workshop Presenters:
11.15am- 12.30pm   
Jan Carr & Murray Geddes: Finding funding for School Gardens, can we do it
better? Cultivating Community Classroom Team: Practical, hands-on classroom
garden medley King¹s Park Primary School: Getting our teeth into it!
Creative ways that we eat our garden Jan Brown, Chris Holm, Christine Joy:
Adventures in the Kitchen Garden at Vermont South Special School and at the
Royal Botanical Gardens.   Virginia Solomon, Eltham High: Teaching
sustainability through certificate 1 in Permaculture Leonie Shanahan:
Setting up edible school gardens with minimal finances Parkhill Primary
School: A school community garden revolution Landlearn: Landlearn in the
Garden

Afternoon Plenary: 
1.45pm-2.30pm    
Jackie French: 'Grove Magic'- how to create  a small wilderness for kids
that will enchant them, feed them, teach them, and inspire them...  and
survive tramping, climbing, droughts and complete neglect  with no
maintenance at all once it is established. (ps yes, it really does work)
Jackie French's gardening journey began with a wombat, who inspired her to
look at the way plants  fruit and survive naturally in Australia, without
 weeding, spraying and endless watering.
Since then she has written 130 books for kids and adults,  been a presenter
on Burke's Backyard for nearly a decade and a regular on ABC radio for more
years than she feels like counting, and writes columns for Earthgarden and
the Women's Weekly. Over the past 30 years she has established 4 ha of
garden with about 270 different kinds of fruit as well as perennial
vegetables and a multitude of herbs, all of which survives temperatures
ranging from minus 9C to 52C,with no spraying, weeding or watering, and
where wallabies and other wildlife are welcomed and birds lured with decoy
crops instead of being excluded.  Even during months of heat when there is
no rainfall whatsoever, there is never a time when you can't pick at least
20 different kinds of fruit.

Afternoon Workshop Presenters:
2.30pm-3.50pm    
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation: More gardens in Schools
Bentleigh West Leonie Brown: Educating for Environmental Sustainability
Northlands Secondary College Secondary School Gardens:  Integrated VCAL
Horticultural Program Port Philip Eco centre: Building Community and School
Gardens Gould Group: The agony and ecstasy of school gardens: lessons learnt
through Gould Group's Multicultural School Gardens and Schoolgrounds for
Learning programs More workshops TBA

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