Early December saw SAGE host a study tour for the Sunraysia Food Movement, a food and farming group based in Mildura. The group included three members of the Mildura-based Burundi farming community. The attraction for making the 5-day return trek was to see examples of successful small scale farming, experience the diversity of the SAGE
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From SAGE member and market gardener Fraser Bayley A social media post from a person I respect and admire, forester Rowan Reid really pricked up my eyes. He posted a few pictures with the caption: 31-yr-old eucalypt (E. regnans x E. obliqua) we planted, pruned and thinned around over the years. Reached 93cm diameter. The
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The NSW Government and YWCA have been running a community engagement program with Moruya High School students called “Youth Frontiers”. Two Year 8 students, Maddie and Rosie, decided they wanted to help revamp and promote the SAGE Street Food Garden as their project. With the help of their mentor Blaze, YWCA organisers Milissa and Remi
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Food Connect in Brisbane have just succeeded in raising enough money through a PledgeMe equity crowdfunding campaign to purchase their currently rented site in Brisbane. The Food Connect Shed will be a food hub like no other, owned by it’s community. Imagine what the current supermarket complexes look like, but without massive rents paid to
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams Anyone who has read Mireille Juchau’s novel “The World Without Us” (Bloomsbury 2015) will know that bees are serious business. And because it is hard for us to imagine a world without them, I dedicate these words to all those marvellous, mystical and magical creatures. As the days grow warmer
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The 2018 SAGE Veggies for All program is hitting some pretty impressive targets. Made possible by a $17,990 grant from the IMB Community Foundation, so far we have held six workshops across the Eurobodalla with nearly 150 attendees. These workshops, presented by Kyle Levier, covered the basics of how to grow veggies successfully at home.
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From Bega Valley Seed Saver, Julie Davies Have you ever thought about saving your own seeds? Why don’t you give it a try this growing season? It’s not rocket science and you can learn heaps from just doing it. The easiest way to begin is to grow some plants that self pollinate, leave them in
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From SAGE member and market gardener Fraser Bayley While we at Old Mill Road BioFarm may have a reputation as market gardeners primarily, growing vegetables is just the beginning when it comes to our farm plan. As well as having livestock components to our whole farm enterprise, for some time I have been wanting to
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You may have noticed some works going on at the SAGE Garden and wondered: what is going on and what is that thing? SAGE has been run on a shoestring budget since we started in 2009. The initial infrastructure at the SAGE Garden was cobbled together mostly from found materials by generous volunteers and it
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Transcript of the annual report given at the 2018 AGM by SAGE President, Mark Barraclough Firstly, I would like to recognise the commitment and efforts of all our volunteers who contribute so much to the day to day running of SAGE. With your enthusiasm and hard work, we achieve so much, thank you. Today, Geoff
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