The Gloucester Project in Gloucester, New South Wales | Community organisation

The Gloucester Project

Locality: Gloucester, New South Wales

Address: 62 Cemetery Road 2422 Gloucester, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.thegloucesterproject.org

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25.01.2022 Food for thought.....

25.01.2022 Before and After - show off your success! This year is all about Celebrating our history, growing our future. What better way to do that than by showing your landcaring successes over the past 25 years? Send us one before and one after photo of your projects, your properties or your local environments, each with a caption of no more than 50 words: Send your photos to [email protected] with the subject line Before and after.

24.01.2022 And the Tucker Patch sold out! Great day :)

23.01.2022 See you soon at The Tucker Patch - we are very excited to offer these tours. Feel free to share and invite your garden and vegetable grower friends to come and see innovative and creative gardening including organic vegetable growing at minimal expense. We re-use and recycle all types of materials, make our own compost and have good water and waste management in place. Send us a fb message with your contact details and interests and one of our volunteers will contact you to arrange the visit. And if you come on Friday mornings, you can purchase freshly picked produce at the Farm Gate. :)

23.01.2022 The Gloucester Environment Group has organised a Seed Saving Workshop, hosted by Neville Donovan of Greenpatch Organic Seeds, to be held on Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 9.30 am - 3 pm at 109 Old Bar Road, Glenthorne (near Taree). This is an excellent opportunity to learn about saving seeds from vegetables. herbs, flowers and fruits. Neville will give practical and theory instruction with printed notes including Why we should save seeds; Keeping Seeds Pure; Plant Families; Po...llination; Selection; When to Harvest; Seed Cleaning and Storage. Morning tea provided. Please bring a hat and a plate to share for lunch. Contact Pippa Robinson 6558 7428 or [email protected] if you would like to attend. Cost for the day is $50. Please send $20 booking deposit direct to Greenpatch Organic Seeds, EFT via BSB 802-214, Account 32407 using your name and workshop date as reference and confirm payment by email to Pippa and [email protected] Pippa Robinson for and on behalf of The TuckerPatch. 11th February 2015

22.01.2022 We received another $40 donation in cash for our tractor. All you need to do is click on the fundrazr button on our page and donate a small amount to help us purchase the tractor. Thank You

22.01.2022 If you don't know what "Coal Seam Gas" means for your family, it's time to find out. Watch and share our Official Trailer. "No Australian voter should miss this... film" ~ Bob Brown "If you care about our country, see it! ~ Alan Jones Frackman is like no other Australian film. It aims to spark a broad national conversation about the risks of our headlong rush into massive coal seam gas development. Five years in the making, it not only entertains and engages, it also gives audiences the tools to get involved in what is becoming the largest social movement our nation has seen in decades. It’s a deeply political film, but not the old style that is so badly failing us. This is the New Politics, bringing together old and young, city and country, conservative and progressive in a shared effort to prevent an environmental catastrophe. Can we imagine any other issue that would bring together the likes of Alan Jones and Bob Brown? See it and find out why. Take a stand with us and be part of the largest social movement in Australia’s history. www.frackmanthemovie.com

21.01.2022 TGP now offers tours at the Tucker Patch. Contact us by fb message and let us know your interests. We can tailor the tours to your specific interests :)

20.01.2022 Are you a member of The Gloucester Project? For a mere $10 per year you can become a member of TGP and The Tucker Patch and benefit from a range of offers or simply show your support to our volunteers. Details are on our website www.thegloucesterproject.org.au

20.01.2022 We'll see you there!

20.01.2022 Beautiful private garden in Belgium with normal garden bed and raised garden bed - the plastic bottle (another way to recycle plastic) is to chase the moles away. The lavender was full of honey bees, bumble bees and butterflies. Very unusual onions growing in bunches of about 5 at the top of the stalks, apparently these are very spicy :)

19.01.2022 Recent research has shown that: Some measures of climate change are tracking at or above the worst case scenarios considered possible just a couple of years ago. Climate extremes are pushing new boundaries, for example the unprecedented heat wave in south-eastern Australia experienced early in 2009. Changes to ice sheet dynamics could raise sea levels beyond current IPCC estimates. Ocean acidification could lead to permanent changes to marine ecosystems.... Climate change is likely to be more rapid and severe, and more costly and dangerous than previously thought [source: Australian Govt] See more

18.01.2022 Ken Johnson, President of the Gloucester Project (TGP), will be presenting his paper "A Socio-Economic, Sustainable, Regional Development Program.", at the 2014 Australian Regional Development Conference (ARDC), to be held in Albury NSW, in October 2014. Kens abstract can be found at page 25 (search Gloucester) at this link; http://regionaldevelopment.org.au/abstr/bookofabstracts.pdf... The abstract contains an amazing range of topics on Australian regional development. The conference is being held at the Commercial Club, Albury/Wodonga. See further at regionaldevelopment.org.au . We all wish Ken a successful visit and presentation.

18.01.2022 The market is on this Saturday :)

17.01.2022 Dear Gloucester Project / Tucker Patch Members and Supporters The Gloucester Project/Tucker Patch is having a BIG Garage Sale on Saturday 7th February 2015 at 2 Queen Street (Lyfords garage) and we need your cast offs, plants, unwanted Chrissy pressies ...anything you do not want or need! We usually make over $1000 each garage sale so every little bit is worth selling. Please drop off before Saturday 7 February - on the verandah at 2 Queen Street, enter between the house and... the garage on Queen Street.... Thanks in anticipation Julie Lyford :) for The Gloucester Project/Tucker Patch See more

17.01.2022 In a development that will create new opportunities for the Landcare community, ManpowerGroup, in partnership with Landcare Australia, has been appointed by the Australian Government as a Service Provider for the Green Army program. To read more: http://www.landcareonline.com.au/?page_id=13946

16.01.2022 If you dont know what "Coal Seam Gas" means for your family, its time to find out. Watch and share our Official Trailer. "No Australian voter should miss this... film" ~ Bob Brown "If you care about our country, see it! ~ Alan Jones Frackman is like no other Australian film. It aims to spark a broad national conversation about the risks of our headlong rush into massive coal seam gas development. Five years in the making, it not only entertains and engages, it also gives audiences the tools to get involved in what is becoming the largest social movement our nation has seen in decades. Its a deeply political film, but not the old style that is so badly failing us. This is the New Politics, bringing together old and young, city and country, conservative and progressive in a shared effort to prevent an environmental catastrophe. Can we imagine any other issue that would bring together the likes of Alan Jones and Bob Brown? See it and find out why. Take a stand with us and be part of the largest social movement in Australias history. www.frackmanthemovie.com

15.01.2022 Darmstadt Germany - Herb Garden in public park. The park is maintained by volunteers (based on the weeds, there is a lack of volunteers). Adjoining the herb garden is a food forest with fruit trees. As the park is called "Rosenhoehe" there are plenty of roses as well. These were in need of some TLC but still beautiful though. The schools use the public park as an educational park also and quite a few areas are purposely left overgrown with grass and wild flowers, creating a little paradise for bees, butterflies and other insects and creepy crawlies.

13.01.2022 We are very excited to be able to offer you organised tours. Feel free to message us specific requests and we look forward seeing you soon :)

13.01.2022 A 1917 poster from the U.S Food Administration. Some good advice.

12.01.2022 Platypus Festival TGP will be having an information stall and wicking bed demonstrations at the Platypus Festival next Saturday 6 Sep If any members would like to spend a little time helping on the stall it would be much appreciated You can meet other members... Have some nice conversations with locals and visitors and learn some more about TGP Please ring Marnie for more details 0458261629 See more

10.01.2022 Great bunch of people!

10.01.2022 Small scale garden including compost bin in Frankfurt - even with a small space there is a possibility to grow for own purpose and to compost.

09.01.2022 Before and After - show off your success! This year is all about ‘Celebrating our history, growing our future’. What better way to do that than by showing your landcaring successes over the past 25 years? Send us one ‘before’ and one ‘after’ photo of your projects, your properties or your local environments, each with a caption of no more than 50 words: Send your photos to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Before and after’.

08.01.2022 Council has now approved our Tucker Patch as a point for sale of members produce at our weekly Friday Farmgate. Meeting of growers and prospective growers Friday 25 July 2014 at 10 am. If you are interested please contact us for the relevant information. Basic to The Gloucester Projects position is that Gloucesters future economy is best and most sustainably developed by extending Gloucesters food product and distribution. TGPs Tucker Patch has been developed to demonstr...ate that fruit and vegetable growing is very suitable to occupy a lot of our land in economically and sustainably producing food. Selling horticultural produce is difficult under current marketing conditions. TGP has been instrumental in setting up the farmers market, with our Community Stall, and more recently, the Friday Farmgate stall at the Tucker Patch. Soon, with the Tucker Patch production increased by our growers produce, we will need to introduce our plan to sell produce outside the Gloucester region. Because of the current commercial market control, growers cannot expect to sell produce through the retail chain. TGP is committed to establishing direct links with food distribution community organisations in metropolitan areas so as to ensure that growers get a good return for their efforts and consumers get fresh and nutritious food. With TGP acting as the direct marketing agent, it will be possible that if growers grow to the plan and produce good quality fruit and vegies, their produce will be sold, and at better prices. Keep in mind that the Tucker Patch has been set up to provide demonstrations, advice and support for growers. If anyone wants help on what to grow and how best to grow under local conditions, get in touch with our experts, Marnie or Sarah. Not a member yet? The membership is a mere $10 and will give you access to a range of services. So why not join?

06.01.2022 Well see you there!

05.01.2022 Some aerial photos of rural Belgium in the Ardennes. The countryside is very lush right now.

05.01.2022 Market in Frankfurt Germany - a whole wall of seeds, ready made herb packs to make a green sauce (gruene Sosse), giant onions, pfifferlinge and other mushrooms and some other interesting vegetables.

03.01.2022 %%%%%% Friday Night Special %%%%% Tonight we take a virtual tour through the other half of Two Men and a Pumpkin Farmgate >>> Mr Kenny Maddocks.! Kennys most a...wesome chemical free, permaculture principled Market Garden is located in Stroud and is part of the Cottage Barn B&B experience that he and his wife Carol run. As farmgate partners & mates, we assist at each others farm, sharing our knowledge, seeds & skills to ensure we get the best & natural outcomes for our farmgate. Enjoy the tour :) See more

03.01.2022 Flowforms in Biodynamics - "The maintenance and creation of water features of all kinds in our environment is of vital importance. Even though water supplies ar...e becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, public consciousness regarding waters value and preciousness is in need of a boost. It is especially important to develop water features which are designed in waters own terms, that is in terms of flowing pulsing movements over intimately caressed surfaces. This in itself should make us more aware of this elements extraordinary qualities in the forming and upholding of our environment. As we enhance our understanding so do we learn to value it in new ways and take greater responsibility for its use in everyday life." From an article at this link: http://biodynamics.net.au/resourc/flowforms-in-biodynamics/ See more