Loading up at Thomas Street
People start arriving.
The lovely Monica from Moonee ponds arrives with a whole carfull of trees and cuttings to share!
Introductions and everyone's thoughts on what permaculture is.
Nelson's turn!
Monica's turn!
Reviewing the TO DO list
And away we go, with some eager seed planting.
Carey leading a workshop on propogating from cuttings. Notice how spellbound are the audience!
It was a literal hive of garden-making madness!
Then it was chook tractor time, here Adrian shares his thoughts on location, location, location.
After a demonstration of the concept using models, it was time to catch the chickens. Go Asha go!
Nice team effort from Laura and Judy-Anne
And the cooch-eating tractor was launched!
And I'll bet that banana won't mind nibbling on some of that nitrogenous chook poo!
Monica running around with another cutting and Di dicing up the next.
Martita's new seed batch.
Permaculturalists young and, well, young (Vilma tells us the garden we set up last time is going great, by the way).
Loading up the car with their new trees (plum and advocado) and cuttings.
Compost time!
With fireman Wille from Chile
Layers upon layers of grass clippings, straw, cow poo, leaves and sawdust.
We also emptied in the vacuum cleaner bag - full of hair and thus nitrogen.
Isn't it beautiful!
Now, time to fire up the barbie!
We soon regretted giving 76-year-old Willie wheatgrass juice - he was bouncing off the walls and twirling women around the dance floor till midnight.
And here they are - what a colourful bunch!
Then came a demonstration of street salsa - magnificent!
with backing vocals
and Asha and Willie getting right on down
Go Mat!
and then the remaining (all South Americans plus an Irishman!) folks went in the garaage and partied till midnight!
Willie's still riding out the wheatgrass shot here I'd say...
They certainly look like they've having fun!