Intentional Communities Murundaka

Living in Intentional Communities Weekend – Murundaka

WHEN: Saturday 22 February, 2014

WHERE: Murundaka Cohousing Community, 42 Bamfield Road, Heidelberg Heights, VIC 3081

COST: $50 Full | $40 Concession

BOOK: Bookings a must: visit murundaka.eventbrite.com.au

Enjoy a tour of the Murundaka Cohousing Community and common buildings. Panel discussion with Cohousing Australia, meet with local cohousing groups Urban Coup and Banyule Cohousing and presentations and workshops by residents.

Free-flowing interaction with a vegetarian lunch provided.

Open space for workshops on a variety of topics. Afternoon tea / co-operative clean-up.

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Living in Intentional Communities Weekend – Moora Moora

WHEN: Sunday 23 February, 2014

WHERE: Moora Moora Cooperative Community, 109 Moora Road, Healesville, VIC 3777

COST: $60 Full | $50 Concession

BOOK: Bookings a must: email peter@mooramorra.org.au

Enjoy a tour, shared lunch, and workshop, with a Moora Moora co-founder, exploring the challenges and meaning of living in community.

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Film screening – Living in the Future: Lammas

WHEN: 7:30pm, Sunday 23 February, 2014

WHERE: Longplay, 318 St. Georges Road, North Fitzroy.

MORE INFO: livinginthefuture.org

 

A screening of the film Living In the Future: Lammas. Afterwards will be a chance for Q&A with the Director, and a speaker from cohousing project Urban Coup.

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Urban Coup Public Information Session

WHEN: 11:00am – 12:30pm, Saturday 8 March, 2014

WHERE: Richmond Public Library, 415 Church Street, Richmond

MORE INFO: urbancoup.org

You are invited to an information session to find out more about Urban Coup’s vision and progress, and to meet current members. No booking or RSVP necessary.

Urban Coup is a group of people who are preparing to purchase land close to the Melbourne CBD and build a sustainable inner-urban cohousing community.

Mater Street Community Garden: workshops

Mater Street Community Garden: so hot right now

Mater Street Community Garden in Collingwood has two ongoing projects: hot composting workshops and a demonstration Food Forest garden.

The hot composting workshops take a hands-on approach to the art – and science – of creating a hot compost. As far as we know, these are the only hot compost workshops running currently in inner-urban Melbourne. Manure, organic kitchen scraps, leaves, wood mulch, grass and garden clippings are layered into a pile and turned every two days. After only 18 days, this creates a rich, sweet smelling, microbial-rich compost. It’s an easy, inexpensive and extremely effective way of restoring the soil ecology of your garden. The next workshop is coming up on Sunday 10 November thanks to local non-profit group Melbourne Urban Permaculture.

The demonstration Food Forest, which is on a 20m2 bed, is Melbourne’s first public food forest designed from the ground up to mimic a forest ecosystem. Food Forests provide a different approach to growing food in the urban environment and are not only sustainable, but beautiful and low maintenance.

Mater Street Community Garden working bees are on the first Sunday of each month from10am, or contact MUP on 0413 219 862 for information or to tour the garden or see www.melbourneurbanpermaculture.org