Last nights busy bee was another productive afternoon with a field of corn planted along with peas a lettuce and others. Many thanks to all those who have gotten the garden to this point, its really starting come together and looks great.

Composting Workshop
The composting workshop was a great success and a fun day with the outcome that we now have three composting bays in the community garden along with two worm farms and participants all learned a bit more about how to compost and maintain worm farms.

A visit to the Walpole Community Garden

Tomorrows meeting has been moved to 16 Oconnor Street

Not sure where we are? The Manjimup community garden is located in the timber park towards the north east corner of the park behind the historic Hamlet area and the vehicle shed

Walking around the corner of the vehicle shed you will see the community garden

So far we have setup some garden beds but we still need to raise more funds for our water tank before we go to far.

We also have some areas we have to clean up so we can maximize the use of our garden area

Manjimup Community Garden Launch a success attended by over 40 people and seeing around 28 fruit trees planted.

Community Garden Launch this Saturday

Next meeting

What: Manjimup Community Garden General Meeting
When: 18 July
Where: Cassidy's place 16 Oconnor st Manjimup

New members welcome

GardenWise Seminar coming to Manjimup July 20th

A special series of Beyond Gardens events proudly supported by the Water Corporation and a growing number of local councils and NRM groups throughout Western Australia. The aim is to highlight Waterwise gardening practices that are suited to WA's unique combinations of soils and climatic conditions.

Seminars are full of humour as the Beyond Gardens Team highlight unsustainable gardening practices and dispel many gardening myths, replacing them with practical techniques that result in success at a fraction of the current cost and use of resources.

Beyond Gardens - GardenWise seminar. Informative, fun and free.

Good for beginners and experienced gardeners alike, the presenters are not sponsored by product manufacturers so workshop participants will receive unbiased advice.

Backed up with audiovisual presentations topics covered include:

• ·        Environmental consequences of current gardening practices
• ·        How plants grow - you will be surprised how many current practices are out of sync with the way plants grow
• ·        Understanding and improving your local soils - find out how digging can be counterproductive
• ·        Nutrients - what plants actually need
• ·        Recycling for a healthier garden - the real story about composting, worm farms and the rest
• ·        Mulching - not all mulches work, find out which ones actually save water
• ·        Choosing the right plants for your garden - why some are better than others
• ·        Garden Design - tips from the experts
• ·        WaterWise Ways for WA ways to use a fraction of the water
• ·        Irrigation - which systems are best, some waste over 60% while others are 95% efficient (and are the cheapest on the market)
• ·        Greywater/rainwatertanks - Could water your garden if you set them up right
• ·        Gardening myths and why gardening in WA is different to what is shown on TV
• ·        Questions & Answers
• ·        ...and much more... and at half time light refreshments are served

Register NOW

http://www.beyondgardens.com.au/events.php

NEXT MEETING

What Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When: 530pm on Wednesday the 4th of July

Where: Cassidys place 16 Oconnor Street

Beyond Gardens Workshop Friday 6-9pm 20th July

NEXT MEETING Wednesday 20th of June

NEXT MEETING

What Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When: 530pm on Wednesday the 20th of June

Where: Cassidys place 16 Oconnor Street

Free Garden Workshop

Well Being Warren Blackwood is pleased to announce a free workshop on June 6 at the Noonooda Community Garden in Nannup.

                                    

Bee Winfield from Merri Bee Organic Farm  will be  presenting an innovative water wise gardening topic:

WICKING BEDS

SATURDAY JUNE 9

10am-1pm

The garden is located behind the Uniting Church in Nannup.  For more information, please contact garden co-ordinator Jack Buntain (jackgail@westnet.com.au)

Next meeting Wed May 16

The next meeting for the Manjimup Community Garden will be:

When: Wednesday 16^th of May at 5:30pm

Where: Cassidy's place

              16 Oconnor Street, Manjimup

Agenda for next meeting

1.      Finalise the planning application including the site plan and application.

2.      Sign off on the WBWB funding proposal (priority resources and workshops)

3.      Look at priority next steps for actual garden construction, including funding opportunities

Bio dynamics Workshop

DONNYBROOK, WA

Biodynamic Preparation Making workshop

Saurday 12th & Sunday 13th May, 2012

with Hamish Mackay and Brett Kirkpatrick

This workshop will include practical, hands-on making of the biodynamic horn manure and compost preparations followed in the afternoon and evening with an introduction to the spiritual foundations of biodynamics.

Starting 9 am.  $270 pp or $400 per couple.

Preparation making workshop Donnybrook WA 05:12 Rego

http://biodynamics2024.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Preparation-making-workshop-Donnybrook-WA-0512-Rego.pdf

Meeting Tonight

Next Meeting
5:30pm, Wednesday 11th April

Cassidy's Place

16 O'Connor Street

The Agenda will come out next week but will include such things as; 

• lease agreement details, 
• $10,000 grant from Well Being Warren Blackwood, 
• 15 trees donated from RSM Bird (we need to decide what we want), 
• report back on research into membership strucutures and so on...

Seed savers documentry

Hi all, ever wanted to find out more about saving seeds, one of our members recently drew my attention to the Seed Savers Network website. They also have a number of videos on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/seedsavers?feature=sub_widget_1

Community Garden signs agreement with Farmers Markets

On Wednesday the 7th the convener of the Manjimup Community Garden group officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Manjimup Farmers Markets. This marked a milestone for the group allowing us to move forward and seek a license to occupy an area of the Timber Park which has recently been marked out in agreement with members of the Timber Park advisory committee.
Many thanks to Manjimup Farmers Markets for agreeing to auspice our group.

Community Garden Update

At present the Manjimup Community Garden group are preparing an agreement with the Manjimup Farmers Markets who have agreed to auspice us. As we are not incorporated at present, we require such an arrangement to allow us to enter into a lease as well as for us to arrange insurance.
Once we have finailised this arrangement we will apply to lease an area which has already been agreed upon within the Manjimup Timber and Heritage Park and once this has been approved by the Manjimup Council we will be able to begin looking at site works. However before we start site works we will be holding a workshop to further refine the aim and layout of the community garden. Stay tuned for details of the workshop and more or come along to one of our meetings.

Next Meeting Wednesday the 22nd of February

Next Meeting Wednesday 22 February

What:   Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When:  Wednesday 22 February, 5:30pm

Where: Cassidy's Place at 16 Oconnor Street

Next Meeting Wednesday 8 Febuary

What:   Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When:  Wednesday 8 Febuary, 5:30pm

Where: Cassidy's Place at 16 Oconnor Street

*** Manjimup Community garden recieves go ahead ****

Several weeks ago the Manjimup Community Garden group met with the Timber Park Advisory Committee (TPAC) to put forward a proposal to locate a community garden for Manjimup within the Timber Park. TPAC received our proposal well and gave the group support in principle, this lead to the proposal going before last weeks council meeting and we are now happy to announce we have been given approval to locate a community garden within the park. The group will now begin progressing arrangements for a lease with the shire and to meet the relevant planning approvals.

We would also like to thank the Manjimup Farmers Markets who have offered to provide us support in establishing the garden.

Next Meeting will be held on Wednesday the 25th of January

What:   Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When:  Wednesday 25 January, 5:30pm

Where: Cassidy's Place at 16 Oconnor Street

Next Meeting

What:   Manjimup Community Garden Meeting

When:  Wednesday 11 January, 5:30pm

Where: Cassidy's Place at 16 Oconnor Street

Agenda coming soon

After finding out that any lease for the garden would need to either be in an individuals name or an incorporated body, we revisited the idea of incorporating, recognizing that if we seek to form under an existing body, that body may not be prepared to take on the responsibility of the lease. In addition it was also discussed that it may make it easier to apply for funding if we were incorporated and that it would be worthwhile contacting the Manjimup Historical Society as another possible partner.

Following this meeting Simon Dooley did some research into what would be required, see below:
(Thanks Simon)

Registering “The Manjimup Community Garden Inc.” as an Incorporated Association in Western Australia

6 or more people can join together and agree to be members of “The Manjimup Community Garden Inc.”

The Manjimup Community Garden Inc. would then be an actual organisation in it’s own right that can engage in activities with who ever it likes. Eg Leasing land from Manjimup Shire Council, obtaining insurance coverage, setting up an account with a Credit Union/Bank or other financial institution, receiving sponsorship/sponsoring local groups etc…

Steps

1.     At least 6 of us agree to put our names down as members of “The Manjimup Community Garden Inc.” and to pay the membership fee. The membership fee can be any amount that we decide it to be

2.     We complete 3 forms and submit them to the Department of Commerce regarding our application to register “The Manjimup Community Garden Inc.” as an incorporated Association

3.     We Adopt the “Model Rules”/Constitution, with whatever variations we choose: See “Model Rules” checklist and draft

  

4.     We pay the Registration Fee of $132.00 to the Department of Commerce

5.     We appoint a Committee, that includes our “Office Bearers” Eg Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer etc

6.     We arrange for our financial records to be properly maintained

7.     We determine the date for our first Annual General Meeting which has to take place within 18 months

8.     We purchase a stamp that contains our common seal containing the words “The Manjimup Community Garden Inc.”

LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION

General Advice on Incorporating an Association

  

Dept of Commerce Forms and Publications for Associations

Invitation to first 2012 Manjimup Community Meeting AND a Garden Party!