Category: Upcoming Events

News on upcoming special events at the Eco Garden

AUGUST 2024

Saturday 31 August – 2024 Trivia night supporting Kariong Eco Garden
5-8pm in Kariong Hall. Book a table of 4-6 people $50 or book individual tickets $10 each: https://events.humanitix.com/2024-trivia-night-supporting-kariong-eco-garden
Saturday 14 September 2024 – ECO DEMO DAY in Kariong ARTS BARN and ECO GARDEN. Solar oven cooking, vege seedlings for sale, music and food. Kariong residents register your solar power to be included in the Kariong Kilowatt Counter. 10am – 4pm. To coincide with Local Government Elections  – Kariong Hall is a Polling Booth. Come and visit after voting.
Saturday and Sunday 21 & 22 September PLANT LOVERS FAIR, Kariong Mountains High School. Visit the Permaculture Central Coast stall and say hello.
Saturday 12 October BIRDS IN OUR BACKYARDS – Citizen Science workshop 10.30am -12noon in the Eco Garden. Bookings link on website in September.
Sunday 13 October WOYTOPIA FESTIVAL, Woy Woy South Public School
9am – 4pm Find out more: https://woytopia.org/ Don’t miss it!
Saturday 9 November FAMILY FIRST AID in the Garden 10.30am – 12.30pm in the Eco Garden. Bookings link on website in October. Family First Aid course with Karben Training Solutions with a Certificate of Attendance.
For more information and to volunteer at any of our events call Lisa 0429 431 889

JULY 2024

Kariong Eco Garden News
July – November 2024
ECO KIDS WORKSHOP with Eco-Artist Rachel Bunney
Have you ever noticed how many bird species come to visit or even live in your garden? As we people build more and more houses and take away more and more bushland, the birds have no choice but to come to our gardens to eat, breed and play.  There are big birds and small birds, birds around only at night and lots of birds around in the day. Some birds we love but there are others we wish would go away. Some birds we make into our friends and some are fun to watch play.In this drawing workshop we will talk about the different birds in our neighbourhoods, hear stories and learn ways we can create welcoming habitats for our fine feathered friends.
Date: Saturday 13 July 2024
Time: 10.30am – 12noon
Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/birds-of-our-backyards-a-drawing-and-more-workshop-with-rachel-bunney
Kariong Eco Garden Wiggly Worms stall at Central Coast Kids Day Out – Celebrate Trees on NATIONAL TREE DAY with The Lorax and the help reduce waste to landfill with the ECO FAIRIES
Venue: Narara Valley High School
Date: Sunday 28 July 2024
Time: 10am – 4pm
Tickets: https://www.cckdo.org/

Morning Tea to CELEBRATE 19 YEARS OF KARIONG ECO GARDEN growing in Dandaloo St, Kariong

Kariong Eco Garden is celebrating 19 years since we started on our current site in Dandaloo Street, Kariong, with a motion of Gosford Council and an ECO Festival in Winter 2005.
We have been harvesting rainwater, generating renewable energy, composting organic waste, growing habitat for wildlife and healthy food for humans since the very beginning. Volunteers tend the garden every Monday morning and every second Saturday each month. We provide a venue for nature play programs and run eco workshops. Come along to get some ideas or lend a hand.
Date: Monday 29 July 2024
Time: 11am
Bring: a plate of food to share

 

ANNUAL KEG TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER
Venue: Kariong Hall
Date: Saturday 31 August 2024
Time: 5.00pm – 8.00pm
Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/2024-trivia-night-supporting-kariong-eco-garden
FUTURE SOONER Citizens Inquiry into the Health Effects of Coal
Venue: Halekulani (Budgewoi) Bowling club
Date: Sunday 25 August 2024
Time: 1pm-5pm
Details: https://www.facebook.com/groups/400706917962265
ECO DEMO DAY
Venue: Arts Barn and Eco Garden, 2 Dandaloo St, Kariong
Date: Saturday 14 September (Local Government Election day – vote in Kariong Hall)
Time: 10am – 4pm

Details to come – contact us to volunteer on the day. Plants for sale, live music, solar info and solar oven demonstration…
Birds in our Backyards – Citizen Science and making your garden bird friendly

Date: Saturday 12 October 2024

Time: 10.30am – 12noon

Bookings will be available in August. funds raised will go to bird conservation.

 
FAMILY FIRST AID IN THE GARDEN
Date: Saturday 9 November 2024
Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm
Family First Aid course with Karben Training Solutions
with a Certificate of Attendance – no formal qualification.Bookings on Humanitix will be available in September.
This course could help save the life of a loved one, friend or neighbour.
This course is aimed for school-aged children and their adult/s.
Topics:
  • recognise an emergency situation
  • call 000
  • apply the DRSABCD method
  • provide basic care to a casualty
  • bandages, abrasions, snake bite
  • bites & stings
  • allergic reactions eg to insects, plants
WOYTOPIA
Venue: Woy Woy South School
Date: Sunday 13 October
Time: 9am – 4pm
More Information: https://woytopia.org/

SOME WAYS TO SUPPORT THE ECO GARDEN
All donations, no matter how small, are always welcome!
We are with Bendigo Bank and our BSB is 633-000; Account No: 154480586; Account name: Kariong Eco Garden. (Please include your surname and ‘Membership’ or ‘Donation’ in the description)
If you make a deposit please email us to tell us so we can issue you with a receipt. Our email address is kariongecogarden@gmail.com (use SUBJECT: MEMBERSHIP or DONATION)
MEMBERSHIP PAYMENTS CAN ALSO BE MADE AT ANY ECO GARDEN EVENT OR WORKING BEE.
Active Member (Volunteer): $5/year (receive member discounts at all tic
Supporter: $20/year (you are entitled to a member discount at four ticketed events)
Sponsor: $100/year (we can arrange to have a small plaque made to put on a post in the garden)

APRIL 2024

APRIL 2024

Upcoming Workshops at Kariong Eco Garden:

Bringing Back that Good Fire

Date: Saturday 13 April 2024

Time: 11am – 1pm (tour of bushland behind Eco Garden from 10am)

Kariong Eco Garden volunteers have been committed to caring for Country since we got permission to start our community garden on the current site in 2005.

We are custodians of a small area of bushland behind the Eco Garden, which is connected to a large area of bushland surrounding Kariong and stretching into Brisbane Water National Park and land owned by Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council.

Could this land be cared for in the way it has been for thousands of years before colonisation, using Aboriginal knowledge and cultural burning practices?

What would that look like?  How could it work?

We have invited speakers from:

  • Firesticks Alliance – https://www.firesticks.org.au/…
  • National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • Kariong Bushfire Brigade
  • Central Coast Council
  • Greater Sydney Local Land Services

and invited local bloodline custodians and the Land Council to attend and offer information.

We hope that this workshop will help our community learn more about cultural burning and how it contributes to healthy communities and healthy landscapes.

As it says in our Welcome Shelter: We acknowledge with respect the Indigenous custodians of this land and work with their spirits caring for mother earth.

Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/bringing-back-that-good-fire

Acknowledgement: banner image and more information from https://www.latrobe.edu.au/new…

 

FUTURE EVENTS: Save the Dates!

REPAIR CAFE – EVERY 3rd SUNDAY of the month (Feb – Nov) – includes Swap Table & opportunity to book a Second Hand Sunday stall in Autumn and Spring.

Venue: Kariong Hall, 2 Dandaloo St (next to Eco Garden)

Dates: Sundays 21 April, 19 May, 16 June, 21 July, 18 August, 15 September, 20 October and 17 November

Time: 10am – 1pm

 

HARVEST FESTIVAL – Saturday 8 June and Sunday 9 June (NO KEG EVENTS)

For more information: https://www.lovecentralcoast.com/events/harvest-festival-2024

 

ECO FAERIE & GREEN PIRATE TRAINING

Venue: Kariong Eco Garden

Dates: Sundays 16 June and 21 July

Time: 11am – 1pm

 

ECO KIDS WORKSHOP with Eco-Artist Rachel Bunney

Date: Saturday 13 July 2024

Time: 10.30am – 12noon

Details and Booking link to come.

 

FUTURE SOONER Citizens Inquiry into the Health Effects of Coal

Venue: Halekulani (Budgewoi) Bowling club  

Date: Sunday 25 August 2024

Time: 1pm-5pm

IMAGE SOURCE: https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2024/03/call-to-close-eraring-power-station-in-2025-over-health-concerns/

PROPOSED Family First Aid in Garden

Date: TO BE CONFIRMED – 10 AUGUST OR 9 NOVEMBER

Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm

PRE-ORDER – Proposed Family First Aid course with Karben Training Solutions
with a Certificate of Attendance – no formal qualification.

This course could help save the life of a loved one, friend or neighbour.
This course is aimed for school-aged children and their adult/s.

Guide to Australian Insect Bites

Topics:

  • recognise an emergency situation
  • call 000
  • apply the DRSABCD method
  • provide basic care to a casualty
  • bandages, abrasions, snake bite
  • bites & stings
  • allergic reactions eg to insects, plants

IMAGE SOURCE: https://lfafirstresponse.com.au/blog/guide-to-australian-insect-bites/

 

CELEBRATE SOLAR DAY

Venue: Arts Barn and Eco Garden, 2 Dandaloo St, Kariong

Date: Saturday 14 September (2nd Saturday and Local Government Election day – vote in Kariong Hall)

Time: 10am – 4pm

Woytopia

WOYTOPIA

Venue: Woy Woy South School

Date: Sunday 13 October

Time: 9am – 4pm

More Information: https://woytopia.org/

January 2020 News

Mondays 10am – 12noon
Jobs this month include: labyrinth path – weeding
and re-planting and planning changes in the pond
and fairy garden area. Hopefully watching more
rainwater go into our water tanks!

BOOMERANG BAGS & new REPAIR CAFE – 3rd Sunday each month: 16/2/20, 10am – 1pm. Volunteers sewing cloth bags for the box at Kariong Foodworks and helping repair broken things!

Boomerang bags hanging up

ONGOING CHALLENGES
We have always wanted to have our garden open for
visitors and expect people to respect the space.
Sadly we have had more vandalism over Christmas
and had to resort to closing the garden.
The garden is open on Monday and Friday mornings
10am – 12noon – and can be accessed via the back
gates if you need to find your tennis balls.

POLICE ASSISTANCE LINE: 131 444 if you see anti-
social behaviour.
Find us behind the Kariong Progress Hall, in Dandaloo
St. Find out more on our Facebook page or website:
www.kariongecogarden.org.au