A lot can happen in 12 Months. Wishing you all a very happy New Year, and hoping that you achieve all you hope for in 2019. Fawkner Food Bowls Team.
Happy New Year!
Saturday compost; Sunday Fawkner Festa!
Composting on Saturday 10-11am, because Sunday we’ll be at Fawkner Festa! The garden will be closed this Sunday because we’ll be at the Fawkner Festa talking about the garden and compost, and signing people up to grow tomatoes in their own gardens as part of the suburb-wide Fawkner Community Tomato Farm. Come and find us... Continue Reading →
How to Vote for The Hothouse – A Food Hub for Fawkner
Our community garden at Fawkner Food Bowls is in the run for some big government funding and we all need to vote online to secure it. The vision is to create a food hub including a market garden, sharing skills through workshops and a space for the community to gather. VOTE LINK: The Hothouse - A Food... Continue Reading →
VOTE NOW to build a Fawkner Food Hub
Imagine a super fresh veggie market at your doorstep where little ones are free to play and interact with nature… we can make that happen with your help! Fawkner Food Bowls is in the run for some big government funding and we need you to vote online to help us secure it. VOTE LINK: The Hothouse... Continue Reading →
Grant awarded to create market garden
SUNDAY 12 AUG - 10AM TO 1PM This week we will be asking you what you'd like to to grow from a list of summer crops. Very exciting opportunity to experience the process from crop selection to plate. We'll also be having more of a general maintenance day so there will be various tasks from... Continue Reading →
Time to pick kale, lettuce and spinach
SUNDAY 5 AUGUST - GARDEN IS OPEN 10AM TO 1PM The winter sun was out and it was all hands on deck last Sunday. Some new faces around the place as people stopped at the gate to say gday. And so we celebrated National Tree Day by adding another row to the garden - and... Continue Reading →
Can you feed the hungry worms?
GARDEN IS OPEN 10AM TO 1PM Thanks to everyone who made it to the garden last Sunday. We’ll be back this weekend and we really need your kitchen scraps to help feed our worm farms. We'd appreciate if you could pop by the garden with some scraps. The worms eat: - Fruit and vegetable scraps... Continue Reading →
Seedlings and Compost This Sunday
GARDEN OPEN THIS SUNDAY 22ND 10AM We’ll be planting seedlings and composting, as well as General maintenance such as weeding and watering. Would you believe that we have 4 composting systems set up?! I know. Comprehensive. So now we need materials to go into them. We need everyone to bring as many inputs as possible... Continue Reading →
Values Statement and Working Bee
Tomorrow we'll be opening the gates to the garden at 10am for a quick whizz around to tidy and plan a little, then from 11am-12pm we'll be heading into the club rooms for a cup of tea and a chat about the kind of place we are creating at Fawkner Food Bowls. We'd love you... Continue Reading →
