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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From SAGE Membership Officer Marie Zuvich Wow 142 responses! Thanks to all of you for your time and effort. We really appreciate hearing about what’s working for you and what can be improved… and there were some great suggestions, lots of thanks and some serious criticism as well. All has been compiled and sent to
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From SAGE member and local vegetable grower Fraser Bayley While on a long overdue family holiday, Kirsti and I were fortunate to hang out in a small town called Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It’s a small rural town with rice paddies and veggie patches right to the main street. Small towns
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Thanks to the IMB Community Foundation, SAGE will be launching an even bigger and better “Veggies for All” project in late June 2018. In 2017, SAGE ran a series of 2-hour workshops at various locations within the Eurobodalla that introduced novices to home gardening. The series of workshops was supported with grant funds from the
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From 2017-2018 SAGE Market Gardener Intern Leanne Nicolle Sitting down in the garden to write my little piece on being the 5th intern while overlooking the growing green manure. Thankfully, this year Trevor Moore wrote a fortnightly blog on what I had done in the 17/18 growing season… I can’t help but feel very impressed
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams As the metamorphosis from autumn and winter begins, and the soil temperature slowly drops, there are many things going on beneath the surface. This underground activity is every bit as important nutritionally as what appears above the ground during spring and summer. Cauliflower Among the most useful vegetables still to
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