This important event will be held on Saturday 29th June from 9am to 4pm at Westfalen Community Garden in Brisbane. The day will include community garden tours, hands-on workshops and presentations on the how to, why and what of community gardens, local food, social enterprises and other topics. This is a great chance to [...]
Archive for May, 2008
10th Queensland Community Gardens Network Gathering
Posted in Community gardens, Upcoming courses and workshops, tagged Brisbane, Community gardens, learnscape, permaculture on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wollongong school learnscapes an inspiration
Posted in Australian learnscapes, Permaculture learnscaping in schools, tagged Experiential Learning, learnscape, permaculture, transformative learning, Wollongong on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent visit to Cringila Public School was an eye opener to the amazing potential of learnscapes for children to learn not just about, for and in the environment, but also to gain an understanding of nutrition, develop healthy social skills and gain confidence and initiative. Teacher and Permaculture designer Aaron Sorenson holds regular sessions [...]
Gordon West Public School Rain Garden
Posted in Permaculture learnscaping in schools, Recent courses and workshops, tagged Experiential Learning, learnscape, rain garden, sense of place, stormwater, water sensitive urban design on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Year four students from Gordon West Public School have been working with Living Schools over the last few months to learn about stormwater. In partnership with Ku-ring-gai Council, Dunoon Bushcare group and the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority, students participated in the development of a small rain garden, or bio-filtration device, in a local [...]
Peaceboat in the Garden
Posted in Community gardens, Recent courses and workshops, tagged Experiential Learning, Glebe Community Garden, learnscape, Peaceboat, permaculture, transformative learning on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In April, Living Schools and Peaceboat again teamed up to provide a fun, hands-on introduction to sustainable living for Peaceboat voyagers. Working with translators, skills and knowledge are learned in a practical, participatory way. Through direct experience participants learn to set up a worm-farm, sow seed, mulch a home garden, care for a compost system [...]
A visit to Northey Street City Farm
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brisbane, city farm, community garden, farmers markets, learnscape, local food, permaculture on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent visit to the Northey Street City Farm has left us inspired! Northey Street is a Permaculturally designed learnscape and functioning food production space in Windsor, an inner city suburb of Brisbane. It is alive with people: children gambling about in the carefully designed play spaces, mums and dads sipping organic coffee in [...]
