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| AGM Brainstorming session: |
| What fundraising ideas do you
think the group could engage in? |
If you were to run a workshop,
what would it be on? |
What projects, big or small,
do you think the group should work towards achieving in 2009? |
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Raffles-e.g. chook tractor @ mothers day fair $5 per ticket.
• Open garden, cuttings to sell also at
markets and envirodays.
• Selling seeds
• Workshops- growing
• Memberships (note-lots of members join
at workshops
• Selling seedlings at festivals
• Butterfly day
• Frog day
• Grants – find and target them.
• Donation for handouts
• Selling compost and worm castings
• Farmers market – overproduction sales
• Charge profit making business for
services eg creating gardens for childcare centres
• Garage sales
• Calendar of permaculturists with sexy
home grown fruits and vegies |
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Household energy efficiency
• DIY energy generation.
• Preserving foods (jars, drying
freezing, blanching)
• Plants suited to tropical environments.
• Swale building
• Macrobiotics
• Aquaponics
• Cob Oven
• Cassava- Hints/what you need to
know(from planting to eating)
• Tropical challenges(diseases,
limitations, climate issues)
• Knitting
• Compost
• Compost Toilet
• Contour lines – Water
• Stress relief
• Conflict resolution
• Bicycle maintenance
• Keyline
• Compost tea
• Green Cleaning
• Making bag
• Marbling
• Intro to PC (2day w/shop)
• Mosaic
• Chook tractor |
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Community Garden in Cairns / Machans Beach?
• Fundraising & seed saving- seed
bank manager.
• Roundabout food forest.
• Rehab of Barron River
• Production of Intro kit to Permaculture.
• Child care and schools – raised bed
gardens
• Talks on community radios, ABC? Cairns
Post
• More pet days/workshops
• Volunteer sheet, education and
encouraging members to join teams.
• Make DVD of group at gardens re
Permaculture
• Visit to Permaculture gardens
• Representation @ farmer groups
• Plant exchanges at monthly meeting from
own plant stock |
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