New and experienced gardeners are invited to a series of four half-day workshops on backyard veggie gardening run by SAGE, Sustainable Agriculture and Gardens Eurobodalla. This is the fourth year SAGE has offered the workshops which teach how to establish and maintain a successful vegetable patch at home. Workshops will run on various Sundays throughout the growing season around
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Eurobodalla Shire Council – NOM19/ 004 CLIMATE EMERGENCY Public Forum presentation by Cath Reilly on behalf of SAGE in support of NOM19/004 Good morning Mayor Innes, Councillors, Dr Dale, staff, members of the gallery and people reading this. I present today on behalf of the SAGE Management Committee. SAGE stands for Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening
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Sustainable Agriculture & Gardening Eurobodalla Inc Annual General Meeting Sunday 25th August 2019 10.00am at the SAGE Garden Please come along to our AGM and help keep SAGE moving towards our vision SAGE President Mark Barraclough will present his report for the last twelve months and all committee and sub-committee positions will be declared vacant
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In June 2019, SAGE received a $17,990 grant from the Illawarra Mutual Bank (IMB) Community Foundation to run Veggies for All 2018. We were very lucky to have SAGE’s first intern, biodynamic farmer Kyle Levier, run six workshops in July and August 2018. These were held in a number of venues across the Eurobodalla, including
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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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