Looking for an Organic Restaurant ?

If you’re looking at this blog you’re probably interested in good organic food.

Then check out the Agape Restaurant in Botany

Sydney’s First Certified Organic Restaurant and Bar

Agapé is Sydney's largest Certified Organic licensed Restaurant and Bar serving tapas, spelt pizza , mains and dessert. Certified by the Organic Food Chain (OFC). Proudly supporting Australian farmers using the best Certified Organic, Sustainable and Natural produce.
 

We thought it was great. Good quality food, interesting menu and while its not cheap, it was no more expensive than similar quality non organic restaurants.

For more information check out their web site.

www.agaperestaurant.com/Agape_Restaurant/About.html

A swaping great day

Well after having to cancel our swap 2 months in a row due to bad weather we were finally blessed with a fantastic sunny autumn day. After a bit of a slow start the crowd started to arrive and the table fills up with all sorts of fruit and veg. Including a few unusual items which always sparks some conversations.

Well that's what make the swap so interesting... you never know who or what will turn up.

See you next month!

IT'S SWAP TIME! SUNDAY 15th May

That's right 3rd Sunday of the month is almost upon us! So hope for some nice sunny weather, gather your Goodies, throw on a Jumper, an stick a few Bob in ya pockets.. then head for "The Garden" this Sunday the 15th of May. 9 ta noon. Seeyathere!
For those that haven't been before... we bring any excess fruit and vegies we have grow to swap or give away, while we chat and drink fair trade organic coffee or tea and eat homemade cakes etc in the surrounds of the garden.
All welcome.

Combined Workshop & Working Bee

Wow what a great day it turned out to be! After some very dodgy weather leading up to Sunday. We woke up to a crisp sunny day and over 25 participants turned up to the veggie garden workshop we held in collaboration with Wollongong City Council.

After some introductions and a short session of theory, it was time for a practical demonstration of building "No Dig" garden beds from our home grown facilitators Aaron & Shez.

Then after a short coffee break it was time for all the participants to get stuck in and have a go themselves. and they sure did!  Next everyone had a go at pocket planting a load of veggies into the newly made beds.

Lots of participants hung around to share lunch and help with the working bee.

Well done everyone ? Check back here to see how the veggies you planted are going.

We would love to hear about how your home veggie patch turn out. Just email us a few  pics and tell us how it goes. Feel free to email any questions and we will do our best to answer them.

A change of season

Cooler weather means its time to plant some brassicas.
Now that the worst of the heat and drying north east winds have past, the crew have been busy rebuilding beds and planting new crops. We can already see the benefits of the new season while we are still getting warm sunny days it's not over powering and the plants love the milder conditions and regular rain we have been getting.
The end of daylight saving means we don't get much time to do anything after work so the Tuesday evening gatherings are more a chance to catch up and get some admin work done.
Here are a few pics of the new seedling starting to power ....

The Garden Kitchen Cafe Construction Makes A Start!

The dreaming of our Kitchen Cafe has now passed with the pouring of the footings of the posts in the welcome Autumn rains.

This Saturday morning, on the 19th of March 2011, Shez, Andrew, Damien, Todd and Aaron whipped up batches of concrete by hand and wheelbarrowed them into 3 post footings. While the skies opened up, a ton of concrete was mixed with the assistance of rain water. The research is inconclusive about the benefit of organic concrete in structural engineering, but we will keep you updated when the studies are complete.

Using the momentum of our enthusiastic volunteers we will continue to roll out further Kitchen Cafe progress on Tuesday afternoons and the fantastic monthly working bees.

The Garden is Pumping!

Rain water flows!

Yes we now have a water pump! And it’s already been put to good work helping us to keep the garden going during some really extreme heat without having to resort to town water.

We can now make use of our big water tank that collects rain water from the PCYC roof much more effectively. The pump give us heaps of water pressure and watering the garden with rain water takes much less time than before.

This is all thanks to a lot of hard organising and preparation by Michael who made sure we got the best solution and prepared safe working procedures and coordinated all those involved. - Well done mate!

And of course much thanks to Frog soloutions and Apathco

Frog soloutions installed a dedicated circuit to a weather proof external double power point.

And Apathco supplied the Monza - 800W, 80L/min capacity water pump, the protective casing, piping and installed it.

See photos from the day of installation -Tony Perram and John Heslin did the install work. Thanks Heaps guys.