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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. Signage for the shed will be installed early next month providing a map of how the space is being used and giving information on the various parts of the space that need to be considered as well as water wise watering methods, care of chickens, major weeds and how to remove them.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Cadigal Wangal of the Eora Nation, on whose land the Wilkin? When eggs come from the shop and veggies come from factories, something has to change. In 2004 a Community Gardening Course run by TAFE Outreach grew out of the belonging project, a Marrickville council initiative involving local community leaders and community members with a vision for the future of Marrickville.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. Using principles of permaculture, the students planned a vegetable garden on the highest point and sunniest patch. For the first six months there was no water on site and the students carted water containers from the pre-school?
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. Bush regeneration are some of the formal lessons taught through the Outreach classes, yet much informal learning occurs onsite. Students are from diverse backgrounds and provide a depth of personal knowledge that nourishes the whole community. We have learnt of natural cleaning products from Mexico that dispose of citrus waste. When we had one rooster too many a beautiful man from Chile provided us with the expertise necessary to prepare and eat it.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. With Aboriginal children at the school and out of respect for the traditional owners of the land, local elders and other Aboriginal educators were invited to talk about culture. The workshops were filmed and are now in post production to be developed into an educational DVD to be used by the community.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. After securing enviro funding we were lucky to discover an Aboriginal Bush regenerator who designed an Aboriginal Cultural Planting Track- and co facilitated a series of three monthly workshops over the period of a year for both the school and for the broader community.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. The Principal of Wilkins Primary School became interested in improving the use of school facilities by exploring ways of sharing a large section of underutilized land at the back of the school with the broader community in an environmentally sustainable way. The children at the school are inner city dwellers and their knowledge and experience of the bush and nature is sometimes limited.
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A LearnScope Project Providing an exchange for outreachers across New South Wales. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Thursday June 4 midday at Federation House we met to exchange information, ideas and strategies. As agreed by the Outreach Steering Committee teleconferences the program was participatory in nature. 12:40 12:50 Acknowledgement to Country - Lesley Yasso. 12:50 1:00 Welcome and Introduction Lindy Cassidy. 1:00 1:30 Setting the agenda Derek Waddell. Institute by institute update.
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Petersham Outreach - Wilkins Green - Growing a Community. This year also saw the arrival of 12 eggs in an incubator at the school library. Students were able to watch the eggs hatch and then farmed out to various parents to care for until they were old enough and while a chicken run and hen house were built by the school community.
