ByJulian
With Julian Around the community garden at 241 lately, one can find quite the diversity. As you wind your way through the garden your eyes stop a moment to peak at the purple-bottomed leaves of the many Shiso plants about. Self-sown from their abundant forbears of last summer, they’re a welcome bunch who take up…
ByKit
Our last Guest Dinner for the year (in November) wove a number of threads together, arising from the topic of ‘A New Look at Fashion’. Our speakers were Kara Otter and Chiara di Giorgio. It is a topic and an ‘issue’ that we are all connected to, and we were treated to a potted life story…
ByKit
October put a smile on the face of our gardening team. The nicely spaced rain allowed some of our veggies to raise their heads and rear up to the sun, when it appeared in short bursts! What seemed like some insignificant little seedlings only a short time ago, suddenly announced themselves as solid, reputable purple-topped…
ByKit
The freshness and quiet of a Sunday morning, together with a glorious all-blue sky, were the perfect setting for this unusual and restorative walk. Mayu, a practitioner of shin-rin yoku, led us through a walk in Lane Cove National Park, bedside the gently flowing river and among mighty trees and coastal bush. Seven of us…
ByKit
Walking in the local streets and lanes is full of interest as Spring gets plants growing! The lushness of beauty of different types of grass or tree are sheer pleasure to the eye. Even weeds, like the tall plantain with bobbing flower heads, or the circular flat, lobe-leaved dandelion bring a pause to one’s step,…
Earth and Ocean Lovers UniteBy Charlotte from Earth Child At the beginning of September, Earth Child teamed up with a Bronte to Bondi beach cleanup walk with over 40 people attending. It was great to have lots of people attend and we hope that we can see some regular faces and new faces in coming…
ByKit
Can one person make a difference? Or do we wait for someone else to do it! This is a question that is asked at our Market stall, round dinner tables, in class-rooms…..everywhere, in these urgent times. What’s that quote from the Dalai Lama … something like, “If you ever think you’re too small to make…
ByKit
Stories (or ‘Narratives’) are spoken about a lot these days as an important way to engage people in communicating and in changing their behaviour. Telling one’s life story is an interesting thing to do to get to know each other well. And telling our ‘environmental life story’ is likewise an enticing way of hearing about…
ByKit
August is a season of mellow fruitfulness At my home garden there’s been a lovely specimen of butternut pumpkin growing for months. It’s been tucked away from most eyes, next to a lemon tree growing in a pot and supported on the vine, by sitting on the ground. The day finally came when neighbours –…
BE OUR DINNER GUEST | GARDEN COMP | ECO-FESTIVAL Head, heart and hands – that’s the mantra of the Transition Network, a positive, empowering movement that has spread organically via word of mouth and communities, both locally and throughout the world. Great conversations don’t happen by accident as we found out at our recent Guest…
