First batch of new trees are in the ground

Beautiful afternoon for tree plating! Big thanks to Sue, Lauren, Sean, Paul, Thais, Jake & Michael.  Stay tuned for the next plating session. 

Finger limes

Gingko

lomandra

Come Tree Planting

Alexis and Sarah have ordered Chippo's new trees and plants on Monday and they arrived today by courier from Daley's Nursery:

• 18 x thyme
• 4 x gingko
• 2 x finger lime
• 20 lomandra

Come tree planting his Sunday and Saturday around 3 pm or one afternoon during the week.

Email Michael @ michael@sustainablehouse.com.au to sign up for a session.

Verge garden Angels WANTED!

Native herbs and bush tucker grant awarded

Sustainable Chippendale has been awarded a local community grant by the City of Sydney to help introduce medicinal herbs and native bush tucker into the roadside gardens in Chippendale.

The aim of the project is to promote and enhance the local community garden project in Chippendale in two ways.

• Firstly, by establishing native bush tucker plants in the existing community gardens to bring a native focus to the gardens.
• Secondly to introduce medicinal herbs into the gardens. In addition to being able to grow their own food, residence will be given the opportunity to grow their own medicines.

This process will allow residents to take an active role in health and well-being of the community and the sharing of knowledge from our indigenous heritage.   

We would like send a big shout out to Alexis Clarke and Sarah Craig, the two local residence who applied for the grant. Alexis and Sarah, thank you both for all your hard work in putting this successful application together.

We would also like to thank The Community Grants program at The City of Sydney for awarding the grant with special mention to Ashley Heath and Linda Parry for their support and assistance throughout the project.

We are very grateful for all the ongoing support from our Lord Mayor Clover Moore, general manager Monica Bonrone and team at the City Of Sydney for their continued vision and support of grass roots sustainable initiatives in and around the city villages of Sydney. 

Join the urban gardening movement!

Have you been using the compost bins or admiring the gardens and want to know how to get involved. Now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get ready to green your thumb.

New compost bin steward and verge garden caretaker  Dei

We are very pleased to announce our very own local sustainability coach Michael Mobbs has generously volunteered his time to help train up new underground gardeners.  Below are some of things that Michael can help you with.

• Correct compost bin use
• Maintaining existing garden beds
• Allocation of your own verge garden   
• Allocation of your own trees that need extra care

What do you need to get involved?

• A desire to help make our community a greener, cleaner and more sustainable place to live. No experience required.
• If you already have gardening or composting skills that's a bonus. We'd love to put your talents to use by becoming a verge garden caretaker or compost bin steward.

To get up and running please email Michael on michael@sustainablehouse.com.au  to book in your one-on-one session. Don't forget to thank Michael of is time, we are very lucky to have him onboard. 

Local sustainability coach Michael Mobbs

Talking 'Micro-pavilions' this Saturday Aug 10

Albert from a team of architectural graduates is putting together an installation as part of this year's BEAMS Arts festival in Chippendale.

It's part of an event, called 1:1 (pronounced "one to one"), a one day design and build challenge where they will get teams of architects builders and architecture students to design and build a set of 'micro-pavilions' in a single day.

These 'micro-pavilions' incorporate seating elements but they will also be designed to function as a small planter box or herb garden. At this stage the idea is that 10 of these objects will be built and set up in a lane way as part of BEAMS festival.

Albert is proposing to donate these 'micro-pavilions' to Sustainable Chippendale after the feativeal.

Come join us on Saturday @ The House Cafe on Shepard St, 10am if you want to be involved with this project.

Sunday Gardening Session

Great gardening session with Sue last Sunday on Shepard St. We planted some asian greens and did some fertilising. Thanks to Alan & Tina, Dei, Lisa, Taryn & Michael for dropping by and helping out!!

For those that came down don't forget to join our active members group on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainable.chippendale/

Come Gardening Sunday August 4th

If you love our gardens and compost bins come learn more about how easy it is to get involved. Join one of our resident underground urban gardeners, Sue, as she prepares her garden bed on Shepard St for the onset of spring.

When: Sunday August 4th @ 9am

Where: Meet at the House Cafe on Shepard St.

The 'Myrtle' Magazine Project

The purpose of this project is to increase participation and knowledge about local community gardens in Chippendale through the creation of four issues of a free magazine for the residents of Chippendale.

Chippendale has well-established community gardens however, locally-based, practical information about the garden is hard to find. The magazine will encourage participation in the gardens and promote the Sustainable Chippendale Facebook page and website. The magazine will be completely environmentally sustainable so as to heighten community understanding of sustainable media.

We propose to produce four issues of Myrtle themed on, and published to coincide with, each of the four seasons. Myrtle will be distributed to each resident’s letterbox surrounding the gardens, and to cafes, restaurants, bars, shops and galleries in the area.The publication will be designed by Sarah Craig and Alexis Clarke, two local professional graphic designers.

The publication will be printed on 100% recycled paper, printed with soy-based inks, in one colour to reduce environmental impact. Each page will be perforated so that it has a secondary purpose as a recipe card, signage or artwork. Holes punched in each issue will encourage filing. When no longer required, the magazine can be easily composted in the bins provided by Sustainable Chippendale around the suburb.

TEDx Sydney Crowd Farmi

Locally grown food from households, community gardens and sustainable farmers supplied an amazing spread of food for the lunch at TEDx Sydney. Food was scoured through the growitlocal.com.au  community site enabling an tapestry of crowd farmed food to tantalise the taste buds of the hungry masses at this amazing event. Check out the video below featuring Chippendale local Jess Miller