What a wonderful night we had last month with Morag Gamble as our guest speaker and Leonie Shanahan doing Plant of the Month! If you ever feel discouraged about the direction the world is going in, please take some time to check out Morag’s websites and access some of the amazing free resources she offers like her Podcast Sense Making in a Changing World, Permaculture Masterclasses and her YouTube channel.  There are so many people doing incredible things in the world, we just don’t hear enough about them and Morag gave such a positive, uplifting presentation highlighting some of them!! Access to the full presentations for each speaker Morag mentioned is available at https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-festival-ideas/.

Key resources and corresponding links are listed below if you want to explore what Morag has to offer:

Our next guest speaker

is Rachael Pascoe, a passionate Sunshine Coast Homesteader who writes a fortnightly column for Sunshine Valley Gazette on Hinterland Homesteading.

Racheal lives on 3 acres in Rosemount on the Sunshine Coast with her family and describes herself as an enthusiastic Homesteader and student of life. Growing food and keeping animals fills all of her spare time, as does learning how to process, keep, store etc food. Racheal will join us next month to talk about how to cope with a surplus of food. When a fruit or vegetable is in season it is wonderful to have lots to share, but after that, what do we do with it all? DEHYDRATING – BLANCHING – FREEZING will be the basis of Racheal’s talk as she joins us this coming club night.

Speakers coming up in the next few months include some of our wonderful members like Terry Stokes from GROW presenting on ‘Natures Way to a Healthy Garden’ (October) and Elisabeth Fekonia presenting on her experiences teaching permaculture practices to farming communities in Uganda and Kenya (November) and we are delighted to have Mark from Self Sufficient Me (https://selfsufficientme.com/) speaking to us in December. Mark’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/selfsufficientme) has over 2.37 million subscribers, so it’s a presentation you don’t want to miss!

Hope to see you all at Club Night!

CLUB NIGHT

Location: Cooroy Memorial Hall, 23 Maple St, Cooroy.

Opens at 6:00 pm.

Markets: Plants, Seeds, Produce and more!

At 6:30 pm our presentation begins.

Raffle: Our community raffle is a community effort. Please bring anything you wish to donate to the raffle, whether it be excess produce, homemade goodies or little crafty bits and bobs! Please place any items in the box inside the front door.

Supper: Dahl ($6/bowl) and Chai ($4 bottomless cup, keep cups welcome!) will be for sale on the night.

Entry is a $5 donation for non-members. There is no charge for members.

Do consider bringing friends or neighbours to our meetings. It’s how we grow the group and may be inspiring to them as well. As always, you will leave the meeting better informed and hopefully better connected to others in the community!

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Key resources and corresponding links are listed below if you want to explore what Morag has to offer:

PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE WEBSITE

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org

PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE COURSES

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/courses/

INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-festival-ideas/

PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE FILM CLUB

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/permaculture-film-club/

ETHOS FOUNDATION – FAIR SHARE PERMACULTURE

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ethos-foundation/

OUR PERMACULTURE LIFE – BLOG AND YOUTUBE

https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/our-permaculture-life/