Armidale Local Food (ALF)
Next Meeting: Saturday 24th April 2010, 12 noon, Southern New England Landcare Community Resource Centre, Level 1, 3/119 Beardy St (Door beside Colour Copy Centre). New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information (jo at bushrock dot net, 6771-2324)
We try to keep the meeting as brief as possible and then people can stay and socialise longer if they wish. In the latter case, bring a plate to share.
Armidale Home-grown Garden Tour
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Armidale Local Food had its first meeting on Saturday 9th August 2008. We started developing our vision for 2020 and our first projects were:
The Homegrown Harvest Display which was first mounted at the 2009 Autumn Festival with a display of homegrown produce and information on backyard food growing. It is designed to promote and encourage local food production. We mounted the display again in 2010 and we are lookig forward to doing it again in 2011. For more information, email ray dot south at gmail dot com.
The Armidale Home-grown Garden Tour which was held on 7-8 March 2009 and 6-7 March 2010. The tours feature 10 homes with food-producing gardens within Armidale's town boundary. They attract an estimated 200 people and were very popular and enjoyable for garden hosts and tour participants alike. For more information email paul dot kristiansen at gmail dot com. Download 2009 flyer Download 2010 flyer
This was originally envisaged as a way of locating fruit and nut trees in Armidale that are either growing on unoccupied land, or are unable to be looked after by their owners. We plan to then organise for them to be harvested each year. The harvest could then be split between the gleaners and the owner, or distributed in other ways.
There are many such trees in Armidale and it seems such a waste to see them go unharvested. Many of them can also be sources of disease if they are not managed to control pests such as fruit fly and codling moth.
However, there is no reason that this approach cannot be used for other resources that are around. For example, our first offer was for horse dung that an SLA member doesn't want left on her paddock.
So if you have, or know of, such a fruit or nut tree, or any other resource that you would be willing to donate or share with others, please contact ray dot south at gmail dot com.
Vegetable Sowing Guide PlantingGuide4.pdf
What Fruits Grow in Armidale Fruit.pdf
What Vegetables Grow in Armidale Veg.pdf
What Herbs Grow in Armidale Herbs.pdf
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