Welcome to the Blue Mountains
Community Gardens Website
We would love to
see you on our gardening day every Friday 10.30 am - 3 pm. Bring
your enthusiasm and gardening gloves, our garden would love to see you!
Thank you to Cittaslow for again donating
proceeds from the Soul Food Cafe at Winter Magic. We hope to be
able to donate more produce next year. The money will be well
spent including creating more crops of potatoes. We feel that as a
community garden we need to be at the forefront in providing some extra
food in the current crisis regarding food shortages and fuel prices.
We just need to educate the locals to come and get pick apples when they
are blemished! We are all too used to supermarket quality food.
A huge thank you also to NRMA members organised by Warren Ross who came
up the day before Winter Magic to help the beginnings of a potato bed 30
X 4 metres. What a mammoth effort that was. We had to wheel
barrow everything down the length of the garden. The garden bed is
now complete with a huge effort from volunteers. In addition to
potatoes, we will rotate with corn and pumpkins.
Watch this space for other work days coming up for weeding and
harvesting.
September 22nd we will celebrate
International Day of Peace with the local primary schools.
Katoomba North will be coming down to plant potatoes and Katoomba
Primary will be holding their own ceremony and planting potatoes as
well. Both schools have focused on Peace as a virtue in lessons.
Katoomba North Primary infants created beautiful paintings of their own
peaceful place.
The Festival of Joy will be on October 18th.
As always the Festival of Joy 2008 will be an event not to be missed.
Stalls, music, kids fun etc. Check out this years full size poster
here. Line up of musicians so far
includes, Wayne Brennan and friends, Lenny Marks, Anne Ridgway, Ecopella,
Raphael and friends, Pack of Peasants and Mara and Llew Kiek.
Coming Soon: A link to You Tube
which shows a virtual tour of the gardens with interviews by Gary
Caganoff.
