Castlemaine Permablitz » jika

children helping

jika — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:14:27 +0000

photos from permablitz #4

jika — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:34:13 +0000

: Rohan & Hamish discussing finer details of greywater system…

Permablitz #4, Rohan, Vanessa & Lucy’s cosy cottage.

jika — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:41 +0000

Hello good folks,
just a quick note to let you know of the upcoming permablitz this Sunday, 8 Nov, at Vanessa, Rohan and Lucy’s house:

2 Roderick St , Castlemaine.
(house on corner, Roderick is paralell to Duke st. the house in question is in the vicinity of Wesley Hill Bakehouse, if you get to there, its only a block away!)

a beautiful shady garden – come and see how practical meets beautiful in this cosy little space and learn how to use every inch of your yard effectively.
among other things, we’ll be setting up a greywater system, building and learning about a chook area, and learning new waterwise tricks for small gardens.

10am – 5pm.
as usual, yummy refreshments and lunch provided, please bring gardening gloves, trowels and rakes if you have any.

limited play space for children – board games and colouring books (calm type activities) etc welcome.

we’ve been noticing – some people come for the whole day, some just for a couple of hours – both are equally fine, whatever time and energy can be spared is highly appreciated.

thank you, hope to see you there,
Jika.

Rocks.

jika — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:28:04 +0000

Caithlin, Nathaniel & Charlie hunt for suitable rocks.

Nathaniel with handpicked rocks, detail of an existing wall in background.

thank you.

jika — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:55 +0000

Thanks to all who attended Permablitz #3 at Hamish’s yurt: Charlie, Susie, Milou, Nathaniel, Stuart, Oscar, Spike, Leo, Cath, Hazel, Arwen, Asha, Caithlin, Ishka, Vanessa, Rowan, Lucy, Nikki, Sas, Astrid, Edie, Oliver & Jika.

Special mention to Tara who helped source all the materials, staying up late the night before and cooking throughout the day to provide hardworking permablitzers with yummy healthy food.

thank you so much to Lisa and Wendy who came all the way from Dunnolly, and Mark (from Hunter Street!) on the cancelled day and stayed throughout the extreme weather to help prepare for the permablitz.

Permablitz #3 (Hamish)!

jika — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:54:19 +0000

Sun 11th October, 10am – 5pm, Lot 8, White Quartz Rd, Fryers Forest.

All permablitzers new and old are invited to the third Castlemaine Blitz, to be held in the Beautiful Fryers Forest Eco Village!

It’s at my place (yurtland) and we will be doing activities such as stone wall building, gabion filling, forest management for fire prevention, vege garden building, planting stuff, pesky wallaby exclusion techniques, sticking the odd sustainably harvested bush pole in the ground and more..

Come see the principles of Permaculture at work and be a part of that process…

To get there, go to Fryerstown, turn right into Market street, go right up past the CFA sheds, follow White Quartz Road to the village where you will see the Visitors Car Park. Walk from here to the ‘T’ intersection, turn left and walk for another 50 meters to the little dam, this is my place. See you there!

food and refreshments provided. Bring rakes, wheelbarrows and gloves, maybe a spade or stone working tools.

Cheers

Hamish

Forest management for fire resilience.

A swale at work after the recent rains…

thank you so much to all the people who helped with castlemainepermablitz#1

jika — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:56:33 +0000

thank you ♥

Vern Howell and Duck Dave for all their amazing work – too much to list!

Dale Harris of StudioInk design for the poster and endless technical help. He’s also good at fencing (creating a fence.)

My Uncles and Aunties, and Grandma in Boort for the help with sand, colonial wire and 5 beautiful gates.

Castlemaine Garden Supplies for a discount on all the soil, gravel, compost and mulch, and delivering it in such neat piles.

Forest Creek Nursery for a discount on seedlings and trees and being so nice.

Tara Gilbee for her beautiful photography and gardening in between.

Sprout Bakery for the generous donation of 5 loaves of yummy organic wholegrain bread.

Aunty Anne Gelsi for making & delivering heavenly slice & bikkies early in the morning. essential to permablitz- bikkie with cuppa!

Rebecca & Iris for awesome huge pot of fried rice and lovely sweet chinese dumplings in syrup.

Gary for super yummy vegan curry.

Tim Read for equally yummy pot of pumpkin soup.

Sas for the trays of seedlings she grew herself and donated to Castlemaine Permablitz.

Ian Lillington for the lovely olive tree, and Steven and Maureen for delivering it!

to all our fantastic permablitzers, kitchen goddesses:and feedbackers:

Yoshi, Helena, Lochi, Arwen, Louise, Jovian, Pippa, Dale N, Willow, Ella, Dave M, Lisa, Vanessa, Jacqui, Harrison, Isabelle, Zak, Myra, Luke, Oliver, Rowany, James, Yau Ga, Hin Hin, Sunday, Annette, Spring, Alan, Gary, Priyah, Helen S, Sandy, Sue, Nikki, Lucy, Chelsea, Jason, Eva.

James working diligently, with a smile

Lovely Sass, who also donated seedlings she grew herself.

just a few of our gorgeous gardeners…

Chelsea, amazon digger! she came from afar & stayed the latest )

July 2009: getting ready.

jika — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:34:29 +0000

bark is beautiful!

a big part of the preparation for a permablitz is gathering the materials needed for the big day. Some blitzes need more things than others, depending on what the host requires for their garden.

for mine, i required:

bush posts, for interior fences, Guildford gravel (cream colour) for the paths, mushroom compost, organic mulch, large rocks for the swales, pedestrian gates, wire, seedlings, fruit trees and tools.

the idea is to have everything neatly stacked/in piles where its accessible to the crew on the day.

so a-collecting we went!

Hamish cutting bushposts from sustainably managed forest.

Thanks and Blessings to the Fryers Forest eco village for allowing us to resource some of the bush posts from the thinning for our fences.

Hamish's hat, reluctantly removed for safety requirements. (chainsaw=earmuffs)!

jika — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:47:38 +0000

i’ve been trying so hard to get the photos up on the site…thanks to all who are so patient with me!

Arion playing with twigs whilst mama (jika) loads the trailer!

collecting materials (with help!)

jika — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:08:29 +0000

Don (uncle) and Joy (aunt) helping Oliver & i put the gates on the trailer.

I wish i got a photo of Kevin (uncle) and i shovelling builders sand that fills the bottom of my trailer! it was excess from a brilliant decking project he was constructing.

also thankyou to Lindsay (cousin) and Dean (cousin) who put air in my car tyres on the way back through Boort.

: Gwen and Joker helping with Arion.

i must add that my folks generously donated the woven wire fence. thanks Mum & Dad.