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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Sustainable Agriculture & Gardening Eurobodalla Inc Annual General Meeting Sunday 26th August 2018 11.00am at the SAGE Garden (following the SAGE Food Share) 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
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2018/19 SAGE Market Gardener Intern Kylie Emmett and her mentor Kat Cathcart in front of the cover crop that will soon be turned into the garden as green manure. It’s hard to believe that it’s time to introduce our next intern, but another year has flown by and another cycle of market gardening is about
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From SAGE Committee member Kathryn Maxwell Since kicking off on Saturday 14th July, five workshops have been conducted with over 120 attendees. Two workshops were held at the SAGE Garden, with one each held at Tuross Head Community Garden, the Narooma Men’s Shed and the Batemans Bay Men’s Shed. We are very grateful to these
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams I am writing this on the first day of August beneath yet another beautiful blue sky. I think we should all spare a thought for our growers, large and small across this land, who wait anxiously for good rains. While the unseen activity continues unabated below ground level, the worms
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