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“connecting our community”
With our new podcast studio “The Cupboard” up and running it is time to get the community here recording!
On Tuesday 10 May we’ll get running a session with the 3078 History Group to teach them how to use our equipment so they can begin recording oral histories and the like
If you are interested in this project please get in touch and come along! We’ll start the session at 7.30pm.
Hi Leanne here. A few years ago my old uni housemate encouraged me to strip my olive 🫒 tree of fruit and add them to the harvest from his house in Brunswick. And he kindly took all our fruit off to magically become olive oil.
When I got the oil back it was such a joy to think it came from my tree!
This year you can do the same thing … just register and then drop off your olives at CERES Fair Food at 20 Water Rd Preston (not the East Brunswick site) and it will be magically returned in the form of oil.
Thanks to Darebin, Yarra and Moreland Councils, CERES and 3000Acres for organising this great community activity.
And … if you’ve never done it before a good tip is to lay a big sheet under your tree and invest in a couple of plastic kids beach/sandpit rakes. Then you can rake along the branches. The rakes will pull the olives off without pulling the leaves off … and the olives will drop down onto the sheet … and you can then gather that up and tip your harvest into your collection container. It makes the process so much quicker than hand picking …
Here’s the official advertising blurb for the event. Thanks Nat from Darebin for sending it through! I am sure there will be people in our community super keen to join in.
The Olives to Oil Harvest Festival is coming to Darebin, in partnership with CERES 3000acres.
Come together over the weekend of 27-29 May to harvest olives from streets, parks and productive gardens. The olives will be pressed communally into delicious, local olive oil and distributed back to the people who help with the harvest.
Drop off your freshly picked olives at CERES Fair Food (Preston) on Sunday 29 May 12-2pm. Collect your oil from Reservoir Library two weeks later.
For more information email olivestooil@ceres.org.au or register here: https://www.3000acres.org/olives-to-oil
Today on Covid Roulette ….
When Danny contracted Covid he noticed some unexpected side effects.
In this episode we hear Danny’s story and also talk with Dr Ed Poliness who explains how holistic thinking is now more than ever a pre-requisite for GPs as they help patients manage the multi-factorial impacts of the disease.
This episode features Danny McGinlay and Dr Ed Poliness.
Listen here or search for Covid Roulette on your favourite podcast player.
This week I attended a ‘community conversation’ event with the Commissioner for Ageing, Gerrard Mansour and sat next to/caught up with Anne who comes along to ACC on Fridays and is responsible for the gorgeous yarn 🧶 bombing around our centre.
The Commissioner talked about some of the prerequisites for ‘ageing well’. In particular he mentioned:
A positive attitude. Under this broad heading he talked about maintaining your self-belief that you are a valuable person as you retire and lose your long-standing value as an economic contributor in society, being open to the capacity to learn new things (like how to zoom and use myGov to upload your digital vaccination certificate!) and also being open and willing to accept support when needed (just get that hearing aid or that walker so you can keep participating in your community). Which leads to …
Social connections. He noted that since the pandemic he has seen three distinct cohorts in the over 60s - those that are raring to go and get out travelling overseas or around Australia in their caravans ASAP (or are back at neighbourhood houses the minute we open our doors), those that are balancing risk and vulnerability eg. attending events but wearing masks or going to outside events, and also a group that is still too worried to turn up.
And he expressed concern about those being left behind - those older Victorians who have become even more isolated because of their worries and fears about the pandemic and those who have not had the capacity to communicate and connect during lockdowns as much as others because they are not digitally literate.
I thought all these ideas were very interesting to think about, particularly in the context of our neighbourhood house where we actively create the space in our community to encourage social connectivity, care for the most vulnerable and promote opportunities for life long learning.
The conversation was attended by a suite of politicians … and it is great to know that they are hearing these messages, and real life stories from older Victorians - including stories from Darebin residents at the forum who shared their lived experience of being left behind …
You may have noticed the beautiful flyer in your letterbox from the Plant Society! But just in case you have missed it there are some for you to pick up in our seed library.
The Plant Society and Yarra City Council are running an inaugural Garden State Festival to celebrate gardening as an art form and to explore the vital role plants play in the art of living this weekend.
Garden State celebrates the intersection between plants, art, architecture, craft, design, food, ideas, music, performance, elevating what it means to be a modern gardener.
The festival has so much to offer. From landscaping workshops to building a table top garden with artist Bec Orpin. As well as our own Worm Tower 101 Workshop here at the ACC!
Check out the program here.
And join our Worm Tower workshop here for just $15 on Saturday 30th from 10am- 12pm. There are a couple of spots left.
