By wendy, on May 17th, 2013
Channel Living invites members to a foraging workshop with Paulette Whitney of Provenance Growers
Saturday 1st of June from 10:00 until 12:00
Cost $25
Paulette Whitney, of Provenance Growers (facebook.com/provenancegrowers), brings her extensive knowledge of foraging both native and ‘weeds’ to this workshop at Birchs Bay. Foraging refers to the gathering of wild grown food, rather than intentionally raising and harvesting it. It enables new and intense flavours to find their way onto our plates and forgotten foods to be rediscovered.
By wendy, on April 23rd, 2013
Five years down the track and Channel Living now has a membership of 400+ individuals. We think this is a milestone worth celebrating with a 5th birthday dinner!
Look out for the invitation to members soon…
By admin, on October 21st, 2012
Channel Living invites members and guests to a special screening of the inspiring transition documentary “The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” followed by a presentation and discussion with Cuban National, Permaculture activist and inspiring globetrotting educator, Roberto Perez.
When: Friday 9 November 2012
Where: Westwinds Community Centre, Woodbridge
What time: Doors open at 6pm for a 6:15pm start
Cost: $10
Share some warm chai with us. We also wouldn't say ‘no’ if you would like to bring along a plate of something to share afterwards. Part of the monies raised from this event will go towards Roberto’s travel expenses.
What's it about
As a refresher and energiser for all out there working towards the transition to a sustainable future for Tasmania through lessons learned by another small island, come and hear the personal experience of a leading sustainability activist who lived through a real and dramatic period of transition.
If you can’t make it to the film or if perhaps like many have already seen this very special documentary numerous times, please come along at 7:30pm to hear Roberto’s presentation and be part of the discussion which will make up the second half of the evening.
About Roberto Perez
Based in Havana, Roberto is coordinator of the environmental education programs for FANJ (Foundation for Nature and Humanity) and travels internationally for conferences and speaking tours to share the story of the Cuban people’s efforts to attain food security through urban food production systems.
The Film: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time.
Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.
By admin, on October 17th, 2012
Seedlings come in punnets of 8 individual plugs and are $3.50 per punnet or $3 each if 4 or more punnets are purchased.
We also have in stock :
- 'Potent Pony Poo' $ 2.50 each
- Compost hay/poo bag $ 2.50 each
- Mushroom compost $ 4.50
- Seed packets $3.00 or 10 for $25
Available during our winter trading hours
Tuesdays 3 – 5pm (Seedlings N/A)
Fridays 2:30 – 5pm
Saturdays 9:30am – 12:30pm
By admin, on October 17th, 2012
Part of Channel Living’s vision is building a resilient community that can easily adapt and flourish under the impacts of peak oil (leading to rising fuel prices) and climate change. With this in mind, we have decided to strengthen and expand our role as a facilitator for sharing related, valuable knowledge held within the community. We want to help our community learn to do things for ourselves more, as previous generations have. Other groups similar to ours, “Transition” groups, across the planet are calling this the “great re-skilling”.
We are aiming to offer more workshops across a broader range of areas. We are planning to run; more cooking courses with a seasonal focus, continue with our courses on gardening and related food producing activities and next year are considering running some arts-based courses and possibly some on maintaining tools and small machinery.
We are aiming to keep these courses at an affordable price but to keep it sustainable we also want to pay our tutors a reasonable rate for their time and expertise.
If you have any ideas or skills that you think would like to share with the community please contact us at workshops@channelliving.org.au.
By admin, on October 17th, 2012
Gingerbread house making workshop for parent/child
When: Sunday 2 December 2012
What time: 10 am – 2:00 pm
Where: Woodbridge School Kitchen
Where to go: The Woodbridge School is located on the Channel Highway at Woodbridge (3509 Channel Hwy.) 30 minutes south of Hobart.
About the workshop
As Christmas draws closer it is worthwhile taking some time to make something special with your child to create lasting memories together. Christine Worley is sharing her expertise to help others create beautiful gingerbread houses. This workshop is offered to parents and children from six years upwards and to individuals.
Your tutor
Christine Worley is a retired cooking teacher having spent fourteen years at the Woodbridge School and has run a number of cooking classes for Adult Education over the last thirteen years. These classes included pastry making, breadmaking and Parent/Child classes. She is also a highly active member of the Woodbridge and Channel Community who has, through her volunteer work, been involved in the establishment of the Woodbridge School kitchen garden and many other community based initiatives too numerous to mention.
Ingredients:
Most ingredients are included in the levy however, participants will need to supply their own lollies and a packet of pure icing sugar
Cost: $50
Plus Channel Living Membership if not a member:$12 single or $20 per family (all participants must be members of Channel Living to be covered by our insurance).
To book or for more information
Limited numbers
By admin, on October 14th, 2012
Course: Learn about cold composting (worm farming) and hot composting
When: Sunday 4 November 2012
What time: 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Where: Woodbridge School Garden.
Where to go: The Woodbridge School is located on the Channel Highway at Woodbridge (3509 Channel Hwy.) 30 minutes south of Hobart.
There can be no doubt that worms are the best thing for your garden. Not ordinary worms, but true composting worms – red worms from the Amazon, and Tiger Worms. Their job is to live in a worm farm and decompose organic matter to produce marvellous stuff, called worm castings, which gives the garden a surge.
Compost can be rich in nutrients. It is used in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, and agriculture. The compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural pesticide for soil.
To find out how to add these benefits to your garden come along to this class.
Teacher: Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson has a broad range of knowledge and over 25 years of experience in many aspects of gardening from permaculture to setting up trial worm farms for the Hobart City Council and is currently a sustainability consultant. He has appeared on the Gourmet Farmer with Mathew Evans setting up a worm farm and he is an active member of several community groups with a focus on sustainability.
Cost: $20 (children free)
Plus Channel Living Membership if not a member:$12 single or $20 per family (all participants must be members of Channel Living to be covered by our insurance)
limited numbers
What to Bring:
•water for drinking
•sun hat and work clothes
•sturdy boots or gum boots and gloves
By admin, on October 14th, 2012
The Course: Channel Living Pastry Making Course'
When: Sunday the 4th November
What time: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Where: Woodbridge School Kitchen. (The Woodbridge School is located on the Channel Highway at Woodbridge (3509 Channel Hwy) 30 minutes south of Hobart. The Home Economics room is right near the car park).
Course description:
Have you lost the art of pastry making? Perhaps you have always had difficulty in making edible pastry? Come and learn how to make and to take home and enjoy:
- Shortcrust pastry
- Sweet pastry
- Flakey pastry
Your tutor
Christine Worley is a retired cooking teacher having spent fourteen years at the Woodbridge School and has run a number of cooking classes for Adult Education over the last thirteen years. These classes included pastry making, breadmaking and Parent/Child classes. She is also a highly active member of the Woodbridge and Channel Community who has, through her volunteer work, been involved in the establishment of the Woodbridge School kitchen garden and many other community based initiatives too numerous to mention.
Cost: $50
Plus Channel Living Membership if not a member:$12 single or $20 per family (all participants must be members of Channel
Living to be covered by our insurance).
Limited numbers
Ingredients:
Ingredients are included in the levy. We will also be using seasonal vegetables from the school garden where possible.
What to bring:
•Tea Towel and dish cloth.
•A pie tin, enamel plate or muffin tin to make a vegetable pie or small pies.
•Two medium plastic cake containers to take food home in.
•Pen and note paper. We will supply recipe sheets.
By zoe, on September 4th, 2012
Want to learn about building with locally sourced natural materials? OzEarth normally charges $250 for their weekend workshops, but are offering a special introductory offer of $90 for our weekend workshop, $50 for our plastering/rendering workshop or $120 for all 3 days. Children and teens (under 18) are free but must be accompanied by an adult. There will be a discount for Channel Living members, Woodbridge School Community (parents & staff) and Concession: $80 (first 2 days)/$40 (3rd day)/$100 (all 3 days). If Channel Living members or Woodbridge School community require a concession rate, please contact us as this is negotiable. These workshops will be at the new teaching shelter at the Woodbridge School kitchen garden, which faces north overlooking the beautiful D’Entrecasteaux Channel. Soup will be provided for lunch, prepared by the school cooking classes.
To register, email workshops@channelliving.org.au
Cob, bottle walls, wattle and daub – Sat & Sun 6-7th Oct - child-friendly (children free)
Cob is a building material consisting of clay, sand, straw and water (similar to adobe). Cob is fireproof, resistant to seismic activity, and inexpensive. It is an ancient and beautiful building material that has been revived in recent years and there have been several double-story cob houses constructed in the UK in the last 15 years or so.
Bottle walls incorporate glass bottles as masonry units and binds them using a joint compound such as cob to result in a stained-glass like wall.
Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of clay sand and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years, and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique.
 
In this 2-day workshop, you will learn:
- How to prepare wooden surfaces to meet cob surfaces
- How to frame up and weave a wattle and daub wall from green timber
- How to mix long straw cob for gross structure, and short straw earthen finish plaster
- How to apply cob
- How to cut bottles to be placed in a bottle wall
- Do's and don'ts of making a bottle wall
Lime rendering and plastering – Sat 20th Oct
Lime rendering and plastering is used to weatherproof external surfaces of the cob walls.
In this 1-day workshop you will learn:
- How to prepare an earthen surface for lime render or plaster
- How to mix limewash
- How to mix harling plaster
- How to apply a harl coat
- How to mix a finish plaster
- How to apply a finish plaster
- How to finish an external rendered wall
PARTICIPANTS FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS WILL NEED
- sturdy work boots
- work clothes
- long rubber gloves (lime plastering workshop)
- safety glasses (for lime and also glass cutting)
A bit about OzEarth
Chloe Wolsey has been building since she was a kid, starting with treehouses with pulley systems and bucket-lifts. She has renovated several homes and worked in a forge with Hot Creations, making multiburner stoves out of recycled VW parts.
During 2010, she taught at Cal-Earth, having previously helped build a triple dome in London for a primary school with Small Earth. In 2011, she co-taught a dome workshop in Melbourne with Permastructure. Chloe has also trained in Devon, with Mike Wye and Associates, in lime and cob techniques.With her partner Helen, she has recently founded OzEarth in rural Tasmania, to involve the community in natural building, permaculture, and appropriate technology. OzEarth’s current project is creating a pizza oven, cob benches and preparation areas for the kitchen garden at their local school. Upcoming projects include building enclosures, a native animal orphan centre, and an education building at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary.
Chloe is also a seasoned teacher, exhibited artist, published author of fiction, passionate gardener and former employee of De Hortus Amsterdam, one of the Northern Hemisphere’s oldest botanical gardens.
Helen Thomson is a classically trained professional singer gone bush. having gained a lot of experience in administration, events co-ordination, teaching, accountancy, grants management and performing under pressure, and having made her living from her craft in Europe for the better part of a decade, she’s realised the freedom that lies in living simply and doing for yourself. She gained her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2010 studying with Patrick Whitefield, and has been studying (and where possible, practicing) all things sustainability-related for a number of years in preparation for the launch of OzEarth. She participated in the Hounslow Small Earth triple dome build and the Permastructure Dome workshop, and is working side by side with Chloe on all things OzEarth-related.
By admin, on August 30th, 2012
The Annual General Meeting of Channel Living Inc. is to be held on Friday 7 September 2012 at 7.30pm at West Winds.
Come along, find out more, join in and enjoy – bring a plate to share,
See you there.
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