Fri, 28/09/2012 – Jude Fanton
On Friday 12th October Michel and Jude Fanton will make a keynote presentation on Seed to Seed Gardens at the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network 5th National Gathering at Randwick Sustainability Education Hub, Sydney
Themes are Growing food • transforming place • creating culture … celebrating community one lettuce at a time
Join Jude and Michel Fanton at 9am on Friday 12th October in this great adventure of seed saving and the Act of Seed Freedom to ensure those of the future enjoy the nutritional wealth of our seed, the true measure of progress for humanity’s future.
Local seed saver, Jane Mowbray will take us through the nitty gritty of seed saving on Thursday and Friday afternoons. See the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network website.
Wednesday 10 October—registration + welcome dinner
Thursday 11 & Friday 12 October—2 day national gathering
Saturday 13 October—partner with Heaven & Earth Festival
Sunday 14 October—Tours of school and community gardens
The 5th National Gathering continues the tradition of bringing together people active in community gardening and in developing school gardens for education, to share their experience and to map a course into the future in which these initiatives play a leading role in developing our sustainable towns and cities.
Seed to Seed Keynote at Community Gardens Gathering
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