See you all in 2016!
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Sunday 6 December 2015
Merry Christmas!
This Friday we created a Christmas 'tree' and hung it on the fence at the gardens. Members are encouraged to add decorations over the upcoming weeks.
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Picnic Day every Friday during Daylight Savings
Join us every Friday (or however many you can make it to) until the end of Daylight Savings for a community picnic, arts & crafts, and gardening chat.
Starting 6pm every Friday up at the gardens
FREE - BYO food & drinks
Craft items and gardening tools provided, or bring your own
Members and non-members are equally welcome so feel free to come along to see what we're about, and bring your family and friends along too.
There will be different gardening and arts & crafts activities held each week, which will be announced on Facebook during the week.
Wednesday 9 September 2015
Sign-up & Plant-up Day
Spring has sprung! That means it's time to renew your Narrandera Landcare Food Garden membership for the year (or join us, if you're a newcomer)!
$40 gets you one year membership for an individual, couple or family. This includes membership in the Narrandera Landcare Group and your very own plot up at the Food Garden.
Join us on Saturday September 12 to become a member, or renew your membership, choose your plot and get planting. Seeds and seedlings will be supplied on the day for no additional cost.
See you there!
$40 gets you one year membership for an individual, couple or family. This includes membership in the Narrandera Landcare Group and your very own plot up at the Food Garden.
Join us on Saturday September 12 to become a member, or renew your membership, choose your plot and get planting. Seeds and seedlings will be supplied on the day for no additional cost.
See you there!
Saturday 8 August 2015
Bee Hotel Workshop a Great Success!
Despite the cold, wet, grey weather we had a total of 13 attendees, including five children, and everyone had fun selecting just the right bits and pieces and assembling them in just the right order to make a total of eight differently sized and shaped bee hotels - including one for the Food Gardens, that is now set up beside the shed, so be sure to check it out next time you're gardening!
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| The new bee hotel at the Food Garden under construction |
Read on for more photos.
Saturday 25 July 2015
Of bees, hotels and permaculture gardening
Where would gardeners be without bees? Probably down on our knees with little horse-hair brushes, or busy planting species that attract hoverflies and other pollinators. But many plants are selective about which insect species they’ll share pollen with, and who has time to hand-pollinate an entire garden these days?
Sometimes you just need bees.
Most of us, when we think of bees, think of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera, but Australia is also home to around 1500 species of native bees. Some, like the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria, form hives and produce honey, but most Australian bees are solitary and nest either in the ground or in small gaps and hollows in timber and stone. All bees are pollinators, although some are able to pollinate a wider variety of plant species than others; some species, like the native blue banded bee (Amegilla cingulata) I spotted up at the gardens earlier this year, are particularly valuable pollinators for food crops, and are a boon to gardeners and farmers alike.
So how can we attract more of these oh-so-helpful solitary bees into our gardens? By building them a hotel of course.
Sometimes you just need bees.
Most of us, when we think of bees, think of the introduced European honeybee Apis mellifera, but Australia is also home to around 1500 species of native bees. Some, like the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria, form hives and produce honey, but most Australian bees are solitary and nest either in the ground or in small gaps and hollows in timber and stone. All bees are pollinators, although some are able to pollinate a wider variety of plant species than others; some species, like the native blue banded bee (Amegilla cingulata) I spotted up at the gardens earlier this year, are particularly valuable pollinators for food crops, and are a boon to gardeners and farmers alike.
So how can we attract more of these oh-so-helpful solitary bees into our gardens? By building them a hotel of course.
Monday 20 July 2015
Upcoming Workshop - Making Bee Hotels
Join us up at the gardens on August 1st to make your very own bee hotels to take home (1 per household) - and one for the Narrandera Food Garden!
Places are limited, so please RSVP to a committee member, either by phone or via Facebook. Places are 'per household' so that could be one person, a couple, or a family group, so feel free to come by yourself or bring your partner and kids (or grandma!) along. However, having dogs underfoot could be dangerous, so no pets please.
$15 per 'household', all materials will be provided, and you will get to take your bee hotel home at the end of the day.
We encourage everyone to bring along a picnic lunch, and to stay as long as you like after finishing your hotel.
If anyone would like to sign up to become a garden member on the day, there will be forms available for you to do so.
Keep an eye on this blog for more information about bee hotels in the near future.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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