Transition Darebin

Eating Reservoir! Permablitz #82 in conjunction with Transition Darebin

23 November, 2009 at 11:55 am transitiondarebin Leave a comment

Providing access to cheap, local, organic food? Check. Building local communities? Check. Getting some exercise outdoors? Check. Learning new skills? Check. Having a good time? Check. When you’re onto a good thing, run with it! Permablitz has been a hugely successful mechanism for bringing food production back to the burbs, and Transitioners have been working to get more blitzes happening in Darebin.

On Saturday 21st November more than 40 keen-as-mustard blitzers, fuelled by an unbelievable feast of traditional Greek food, transmogrified* Caro, Greg and Angelina’s little slice of Reservoir into a beautiful vegie patch with a rock wall terrace, a greywater mulch pit system to supply a future fruit orchard, and a multipurpose fire circle/sandpit/outdoor in-ground seating area.

During the day we learned how to make dolmades from Angela, string with cordyline leaves from Kat, and netting from Robynann. Caro also gave a tour of the Amazing Frog Bog (featuring a relocated frog that we rescued from the cordyline stump!), and the Transition Darebin team discussed our plans for 2010 and beyond with the locals.

But enough talk, check out these photos!

At the Pre-blitz design visit:

Site of the vegie-patch-to-be

Caro and Kat admiring the "room for improvement"!

Nearing the end of the blitz:

The brand new vegie patch

Improvements accomplished!

You can also see the whole day unfold on YouTube.

Thanks to everyone who shoveled, mulched and weeded. See you at the next blitz!

If you are a Darebin resident who has a balcony, courtyard, back or front garden ready to be transformed into an edible oasis, simply lend a hand at 3 blitzes then get in touch with Transition Darebin! Find blitzes happening near you at www.permablitz.net.

*Transmogrify: to transform, as if by magic!

Entry filed under: Food, Garden/Permaculture, Past Events, Reskilling. Tags: permaculture, sustainable food.