Growing Resilience Permaculture in Wattleglen, Victoria, Australia | Education

Growing Resilience Permaculture

Locality: Wattleglen, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 412 400 875

Address: 604 Heidelberg-Kinglake Road 3096 Wattleglen, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.growingresilience.com.au/

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24.01.2022 Springtime means irrigation maintenance and repair. Luckily one of our students is doing a TAFE electrical course!

21.01.2022 https://youtu.be/9FXpWj89naY

18.01.2022 Broad beans are finished, so our students are knocking them down with a scythe. Even inexperienced teen can keep up with whipper snipper on this job.

17.01.2022 Building our new shade house with trampoline frames and old steel water pipe.

15.01.2022 "This school is too straight." "Well let's make it more twisted." - our new outdoor kitchen roof takes shape.

15.01.2022 Harvesting our popcorn crop.

15.01.2022 Our new bush tucker and native garden on a unused and hard piece of ground which previously served as a parking space for rubbish skips. A big shout out to Chris Grose for the massive logs. Our pop-up library will be installed here, to create a shady reading spot for kids to eat their lunch.

13.01.2022 Hi All. I'm on the education panel again at SLF this year. I'd be thrilled if you'd come along and check it out!

12.01.2022 As part of the Sustainable living Festival, we're opening the permaculture garden, nursery and urban "farm" at Templestowe College next Sunday Feb 24th, 10am to 4pm. Come along!

11.01.2022 Our new pop-up library taking shape. It started life as a heating oil tank in the 1970s.

09.01.2022 The roof for our outdoor kitchen beginning to take shape.

07.01.2022 International Montessori Conference - using our courtyard and garden as a workshop and presentation space; helping out in the garden as part of their program.

06.01.2022 We’re getting a lot of interest due to the gardener job, so I thought I’d post about some of our latest activities. Here are some kids harvesting our oat crop for animal fodder, and admiring (the beginning of) our garlic crop.

05.01.2022 Outdoor kitchen progress - roof on, benches in place. Almost there!

04.01.2022 Harvesting our popcorn crop

03.01.2022 More details soon!

03.01.2022 Finally got our pop-up library installed. No books yet - COVID-19 lockdown.

03.01.2022 TC hits peak cute!

02.01.2022 Interesting opportunity: https://www.seek.com.au/job/50734138

01.01.2022 Our Mother's Day market, held on Wednesday, was a roaring success! Gorgeous and sustainable crafts made by our Permaculture students included handcrafted cards..., beeswax wraps (wax donated by neighbour Ed, whose bees frequent our courtyard flower fountain :), bamboo straws, trivets of apple tree prunings, hand-forged key rings, along with terrariums and dried flowers in pretty used glassware. The mountain of popping corn and pumpkins from the garden were a hit, and nursery plants sold well. Proud as punch of our students and community for their creativity and resourcefulness. All materials were upcycled or grown on-site. You go young eco-warriors! Thank you especially to Catie Rizio, who graduated last year and is a brilliant addition to our team. ND, Student TC Facebook Administrator

01.01.2022 Our animals program's alpacas use the same spot as a toilet. That makes it easy to collect manure, but also makes the soil highly waterlogged and acidic: conditions which capeweed loves. Here one of our students is turning the capeweed in and aerating the top layer. Next we'll lime it heavily and let some rain infiltrate. Hopefully then we'll be able to broadfork it and plant corn.