Published as Issue No. 76
July 15, 2013
Compost 1: Free to good home. Sarah of Houghton Bay Rd advises her household is producing more Bokashi compost than they can currently use in their garden. They are looking for a couple of people who can collect the compost buckets and put them in a warm place for 4-6 weeks (probably longer in this cold weather) until the compost is ready and then return the empty buckets. The idea would be that she would contact you when there was a bucket to collect – about one a week.
Compost 2: Calling all composters! Miranda from Hornsey Rd advises two short films on composting will feature in the next film night Wednesday 24 July 7.30 pm at Houghton Valley School. One of them, a master class with world famous composter Peter Proctor, is a must see. We hope to have speakers on composting toilets and domestic water tanks soon, so watch this space.
HV Progressive Association: The next quarterly meeting will also be the AGM. It will be held in the community hall at 4 p.m. on Sunday July 28. Membership costs $10 per year.
Celebration on the hill: TRiG tree planters and people interested to take a look inside Alice Krebs Lodge braved the elements on Saturday to head up the hill to the View Rd Park Reserve. On the occasion of Founder’s Day they learned from Brenda of View Rd something about the life of Kae Miller, whose work included the building of the lodge operated by the Trust that bears her name.
Donations of lemons needed: For making lemonade cordial and/or preserved lemons for selling at the next Houghton Valley School fair (funds being raised to repair and upgrade the very popular adventure playground) – contact Sarah.
Grant and Norman