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Lockdown gardeners see months of hard work bear fruit - and veg
Lockdown gardeners see months of hard work bear fruit - and veg
www.theage.com.au
Melburnians who got the gardening bug during the first wave of stay-at-home orders back in March are reaping the rewards in fresh homegrown produce.The garden kitchen and co-op renovations are done and we’re opening again! To celebrate the co-op is hosting a morning tea on Sunday 6th September and Garden Tucker is on again September 7th!
If you’d like to come please send me a PM or reply to this post as we need to comply with covid numbers.
Garden Tucker will be on again the first Monday of the month from now on. If you miss out on this one, you can get in on another 😊Note: The new deadline for booking is Friday 4th September!
Here’s an awesome seed saving initiative to check out and get involved with if you’re after seeds or grow your own!
Local Seeds - Buy & Sell Seeds Online
www.localseeds.com.au
Local Seeds is a marketplace for local seed savers. Buy and sell untreated, non-GMO, heirloom, open pollinated, organic seeds online from local growers.We’re excited to be getting bees at Okines Community Garden. Bee boxes were built by a new generation of bee keepers who were keen as mustard
A fabulous experience! Thank you so much!!!
Wonderful effort!! They’re beautiful
Exciting stuff
It’s like Christmas around here! We’ve gotten our bee equipment and we can’t wait to get stuck into building hives and catching some swarms come spring. I have a feeling it’s going to be a swarmy season as last year there were hardly any and this year has been wet, so hopefully lots of nectar flowing and therefore swarming once the weather gets warmed up.
If you’d like to get involved assembling hives and learning about bees, we will be getting stuck into hive building on most Mondays and Fridays until mid September at the garden. If you’re keen, please respond to this post or send us a PM to register your interest so we can manage numbers.
Thanks to the local 2A4 grants for making this a reality!!
I'd love to get involved, most probably some Fridays. I've done some courses with beekeeping but nothing like getting the hands on, as we haven't started keeping any yet. 🙂
That's awesome news! Please let me know if you guys need to borrow a heating element to soften / melt the beeswax sheets onto the wires.
What sort of hives are you building?