ByKit
August is a season of mellow fruitfulness At my home garden there’s been a lovely specimen of butternut pumpkin growing for months. It’s been tucked away from most eyes, next to a lemon tree growing in a pot and supported on the vine, by sitting on the ground. The day finally came when neighbours –…
BE OUR DINNER GUEST | GARDEN COMP | ECO-FESTIVAL Head, heart and hands – that’s the mantra of the Transition Network, a positive, empowering movement that has spread organically via word of mouth and communities, both locally and throughout the world. Great conversations don’t happen by accident as we found out at our recent Guest…
PLASTIC FREE JULY | FIRST GUEST DINNER | BONDI FESTIVAL | NAIDOC | WINTER CROPS Plastic Free July (PFJ) is a big event on our sustainability calendar. ‘A world free of plastic waste’ was the ambition of Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, a waste expert from WA who challenged her local government colleagues to reuse single-use plastic items…
Many of us grow our own food and gardens— or even just houseplants— and we sometimes need to think about what we need to feed our plant friends, too. Instead of getting fancy expensive organic fertilisers….….did you know that the following common kitchen scraps and leftovers make excellent, safe, and easy-to-use natural fertilisers for your…
Last Monday 17th of May 2021, Kit Shepherd received the Waverley Local Hero Award in the Second Nature Category! Her dedication to Transition Bondi is nicely described in her kind words, which we would like to share with the broader Transition Bondi’s community: “This moment of ‘limelight’ on me is very much about acknowledging the…
At our April Dig Day in the Community Garden, we participated in the Autumn Wild Pollinator Count. Each of us spent 10 minutes staring at a flowering plant and counting which pollinators paid a visit. This humble task may seem inconsequential, but think again… thanks to your efforts and those of hundreds of others around…
This month we had the pleasure of having Adam Leiber from Cultcure.org lead a vegetable fermentation workshop in the 241 Bondi Road Community Garden. We made a whole lot extra to share at our Film & Feast. It was a massive hit and we would LOVE to share it with you. INGREDIENTS 2 medium to large…
There is no doubt that the transport sector is extremely carbon intensive and as such there are many debates currently focused around the electrification of vehicles, public transport, investment in road infrastructure, town planning and so on. Australia, in particular, has been slow to take on concepts other than individual car ownership. Miri, member of Transition Bondi…
ByKit
Words by Kit I was once told religions generally contain the following common elements: Community (congregation) A sense of awe Ritual and ceremony Ethics and morality This information has stayed with me, and is a yardstick for me to view aspects of my public and private life against. These elements explain the parts of religion that…
Diego, the weed forager, presented at April’s Talk and Feast His reputation went before him, and people we’d met at the Farmers Market Stall were disappointed they weren’t going to be able to come (the date was the Thursday night of Easter). Though his usual setting is in ‘the wild’, leading groups through weedy patches…
