Flinders University Organic
Food Co-op
Get your order in now.
E-mail your order to flindersco-op@planet-save.com
by Wednesdays 5:30pm - for pick up on Friday between noon and 3pm
What you need to do to
order: is e-mail the above address with a order request of $10, $20
or $30 box of fruit and veg, by 5:30pm each Wednesday of school term (excludes
uni holidays and days when Friday is a public holiday.)
For collection: pick up your order from
out the front of Uni Books on the plaza, between noon and 3pm on Fridays.
Volunteer helpers are needed to run the co-op!
Next week i need someone to do the ordering for the week - as I'll be in
Newcastle for work.
Because the co-op is completely run by student volunteers, it relies completely
upon co-op members for its success. We need more ‘hands on deck’ from
orders to assist the running, set up, manning and pack up of the co-op, particularly
on Fridays.
Set up: Those who can help set up need to be available
from 11am. Tasks involved are helping to arrange boxes, distribute the bulk
order. Advantages of helping with set up are that you get first pickings of
your box. Meeting location for set up at the Enviro Space in the undercroft
of the union building. (or look out for people carrying boxes around the set
up location.)
Manning: If your available from between 12noon
and 3pm and can spare 30 mins, we need some extra volunteers to take on a short
stint of looking after the co-op. distribute boxes to those who have ordered,
answer questions to passer bys about the co-op and how the system works. (a
full briefing will take place so that you understand the system.)
Pack Up: Pack up takes place at 3pm and takes 15
minutes. Many hands make light work, so if you’re available, come and
help us pack up our space.
Please e-mail: Tammy-Jo.Sutton@wilderness.org.au if
you are able to be a volunteer helper on Friday 27th April co-op - even
if it is just for 30mins - 'many hands make light work'.
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Flinders Permaculture Garden
Workshops every Sunday from 12 noon to 4pm.
Location of the garden on campus: Cnr of of Sturt drive
and Hall Drive (look for the community garden sign.)
For more information contact: Chris Wood on 0407861148
If you like gardening and would like
to get your hands dirty, come along to one of the Sunday workshops between
noon and 4pm.
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Students of Sustainability 2007
July 9-15, 2007
http://radicalhack.com/sos07/
Students of Sustainability (SoS) is the largest student-run environment
based conference in Australia. The next SoS convergence will happen July
2007 in Perth, Western Australia. Grab the SoS07
FLYER...
So, what is SoS? Each
year SoS offers an amazing opportunity for students, activists, academics,
environment and Indigenous groups, and members of the wider community from
around Australia to come together to share and gain knowledge, skills and
information on environmental and social justice issues.
See SOS Process and EVENTS on
the right for current happenings.
If
your interested in the conference you can get involved with Enviro cross
campus collective:
A meeting on: Friday 18th May at 6pm will take place at
the Wilderness Society Office
Level 6 / 118 King William Street, Adelaide.
The meetings aim is to put together logistics and discuss group transportation
and fundraising opportunitities to help us get to the conference.
For more info about the Adelaide contingent going to SOS - contact: Lisa
by e-mailing keef0006@flinders.edu.au
We are all students of sustainability!
Flinders University Community Garden Society
Flinders Uni Permie Garden Meeting
26th April 2006, 6pm @ the garden.
Present: Brett, Chris (f), Kelly (m), Dave, Nichoja, Lisa, Ash, Max, Shah, Drew,
Amelia, Matthew, Katherine, Amy, Ben, Jade, Louise.
Strawbale gazebo
• Brett had a meeting with Jeremy (eco-architect) a few
weeks ago, he’s no
longer working with the Uni buts still wants to help us out with the gazebo.
• Jeremy has organized Ecopolis to work on the design
and Jeremy will help get
it through council.
• Ecopolis will help run a strawbale building course.
• It might be unrealistic to get it done before mid year,
perhaps it will be
more of a spring project.
• The grant money has to be used by July so we will need
to talk to council for
an extention.
• Jeremy said that FU might be able to fund spillover
costs.
Intro to permaculture course
• To be held at the garden this Sat and the following
Sat between 10am and 5pm.
The cost is $20 and all proceeds go towards the garden. Morning tea will be
provided but people should bring lunch to share.
• 15 people have booked already but there is still room
for more.
• If you are interested in attending contact Andrew on
83712060.
Tennis court development
Where its at…
• Chris talked to the Child care centre (CCC) lady today
and she says that they
want ½ of the space and there needs to be a buffer zone and fence between
the
two halves. They are after space for kicking balls etc, and are keen to have
us
help them set up a kids garden.
• Lisa’s kids go there so she could be a good contact
with them.
• The CCC sent an email out to a heap of people in the
Uni saying that if there
is a formal meeting held about the tennis courts then they want to be invited.
• FU is keen to palm off the site as it apparently costs
them $10,000/year in
upkeep. We may be able to get some of this budget to help with our project.
What needs to happen now…
• We need to have a meeting totally focused on the tennis
court development.
This meeting will be on Wed 10th May at the garden from 5.30pm (bring some food
to share for dinner) everyone interested is welcome to come along.
• We need to consolidate our vision for the space/process
and what we are
prepared to offer.
• We need to have a contact person for this project so
that all our external
communications are consistent, calculated and professional. James was the
initial contact person, we need to ask him if he is interested in continuing
as
the contact person.
• We need to meet with the CCC to present our vision,
and what we can offer in
the way of making it happen.
• Then together with the CCC we need to develop a proposal
for space to present
to the Uni.
• After the proposal is presented and passed by the Uni
then we may need to form
a steering or reference committee (maybe including ppl from the CCC, Buildings
and property, grounds and maintenance, Permie garden group, hall and unit
management, and maybe a couple of student and community reps) who can help with
decisions about the site and the development process.
Some visions for the site…
• Educational focus
• Individual plots for the hallies and international students
(individual plots
may be hard to manage though and may require a paid coordinator).
• Need to involve people from the enviro faculties and
urbrae
• We need to take a formal approach
• It needs to be made of the visions of people from the
whole area and be a
leading example of participatory design.
• It needs to be an example of what it possible.
• Each person has their own merit whether they come with
technical skills or
merely enthusiasm.
• This is a really great opportunity and chance to make
something great.
• It could be an example of other ways of living.
• What will be the theme – lets ask anyone who could
possibly be involved what
they think.
• It is a discovery project, as is the current garden,
around ways to share,
work cooperatively and make decisions about communal resources.
• On the path towards sustainable living some terminology
can deter people who
potentially have great ideas and intent.
• The garden
can be a space for influencing and educating people about ways of
Permaculture living.
• It is a way of breaking structures without being offensive
or radical, other
people can come into Uni without having surrender to the hierarchical
and
exclusionary higher education system.
• The theme can be neutralizing.
• Perhaps the theme can be as broad as a site for ‘Community
Place Making’,
which might mean making a garden for some people, making a space to hang
out
and have events, or to do with the less physical qualities of the space
that we
want to foster eg. cooperative management, inclusionary, empowering, etc.
• An outdoor study are could be great – we could
plant many plants with each
produce different types of oxygen – it will stimulate students.
• Some stakeholder might be put off it the focus was ‘gardening’.
If we had an
open focus we might find that some of the stakeholders will want a space
for
hanging out, meeting friends or outdoor study, all of there things may
be
multiple uses of a garden space.
Working bees
The new regular working bee times for this term are…
• Every second Wednesday from 3pm onwards. Starting 10th
May, then the 25th,
etc. Bring some food to share for a twighlight cookup and gathering of
ideas
for the garden (meeting).
• Every Sunday from 11am onwards, bring some lunch to
share.
• There will be a roster for who will coordinate each
working bee, eg. get the
key and organize any materials, equiptment etc. Each working bee can
have a
different theme and can be influenced by what needs to be done and what
each
coordinator wants to organise.
• Brett will make up and distribute a campus enviro calander
with the dates of
working bees and other campus events on it.
Festivals
• There is talk of a small winter one at the garden and
a big spring one.
• Perhaps we can think of each working bee as becoming
a mini festival.
• Maybe we could have an annual huge garden festival.
• Festivals plant the seed for more people getting involved.
• Dates for festivals proposed are Fri the 30th of June
(winter one) and then
the spring one in September.
Kelly’s coursework
There are two projects Kelly has to do for her ‘Communication
for Planners’
subject, her proposals are…
Assignment 1 – Contentious development
presentation
I will prepare a presentation describing the garden and its potential
and actual
benefits and then outline some of the current issues (or contentions).
I also
have to write a short essay covering the presentation content. My idea
is that
we could use these resources to present at a big meeting consisting of
all
possible garden stakeholders and work with them and their ideas and influence
to help work out ways to address the issues and in particular, how the
stakeholders can help us address these issues.
Assignment 2 – Community consultation plan
I will develop a plan for a participatory design process which can be
applied in
the design of the tennis court space.
For both of these projects I would like the permie garden group to be a
reference committee for my work so that it is informed, applicable and
represents what we all value and want to do. I will email out drafts and
ideas
and will do quick exercises in meetings for the next month or so.
We brainstormed ‘issues’ relating to the garden as part of Assignment
1, they
are..
• Land tenure – piece of paper
• Income
• Funding management
• Water cuts
• Communication between the Uni management and the garden
• Conflicting land management styles
• Structure, how people are introduced to the garden and
how they interact
• Lack of integration into the curricula
• General awareness of the garden
• Not on uni map
• Publicity
• Volunteer succession
• Lights and plants
• Vandalism (potential issue)
• Leadership (?)
Clubs and Societies AGM
• C&S’s wind up in June and there will be $500
grants for clubs going ahead.
• The FU permie club needs to have one so that it can
be in the running for the
next round of grants.
• The reason that we haven’t had an AGM already
is that our treasurer is in
South America.
• We have $130 in the bank from member fees and fundraising
• If we have the AGM when the food co-op is on then we
can make sure the members
who are also food co-opers will come. Maybe it could also be held before
or
after the Ilkari AGM.
• The AGM is proposed for Fri 12th May.
If
your interested in the conference you can get involved with Enviro cross
campus collective: