Armidale Local Food (ALF)
Next Meeting: 27 March 2010, 12 noon, new SNELCC location (Level 1, 3/119 Beardy St, opposite Hannah's Arcade). New participants are always welcome. Just come along to a meeting, or contact Jo Leoni for further information (jo@bushrock.net, 6771-2324)
We try to keep the meeting to one hour 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
Armidale Local Food had its first meeting on Saturday 9th August 2008. We started developing our vision for 2020 and decided upon three projects we would work towards.
The Homegrown Harvest Festival was held in March 2009 and will be held again in March 2010 to coincide with the Armidale Autumn Festival. This event involves a banquet using almost entirely local grown produce, and is designed to promote and encourage local food production. For more information, email ray.south@gmail.au.
The Armidale Home-grown Garden Tour 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.kristiansen@gmail.au. Download 2009 flyer Download 2010 flyer
The Perennial Food Garden will be a planting of perennial food-producing plants, such as nut trees, in a public space in Armidale. The idea is to show what food might be grown in public spaces in Armidale.
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 looked after and 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, a fruit or nut tree in need of care, or any other resource that you would be willing to donate or share with others, please contact ray.south@gmail.au.
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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