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BOGI Garden Flood Recovery Day

Event Details

Time: March 19, 2011 from 10am to 2pm
Location: Brisbane
Street: 102 McDonald Road,
City/Town: Windsor
Website or Map: http://bogi.org.au/about
Event Type: bogi, flood, recovery, help
Organized By: Donna
Latest Activity: Mar 16, 2011

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Event Description

Brisbane Organic Growers is co-coordinating a garden recovery program to assist our friends in Brisbane and Ipswich to re-establish their gardens following the recent devastating floods. We are encouraging all of our members to start growing seedlings, transplants and cuttings now. They should be grown in tubes, plastic pots or bags, polystyrene boxes or jiffy pots to be ready for distribution on 19 March 2011.

We would appreciate your club supporting us in this project. We are seeking donations of

potted plants (vegetables, herbs, flowers, shrubs etc.
cuttings fresh on the day (19 March)
garden tools
gardening books

Our members are current planting thousands of pots of seeds, which should be ready for distribution on Saturday 19 March.

Although planning is in the early stages, we envisage that on the day we will have several thousand plants to give away and will have information booths and demonstrations on post flood garden restoration, composting, worm farms, producing household vegetables in small containers etc. For further information contact Graeme Crombie 3298 6137 or email president@bogi.org.au

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Comment by Florence on March 16, 2011 at 10:19: I wish to go, but I don't have anything to contribute at the moment.. maybe except sprouted turmeric...

Still in the process of washing my seed raising stuff at my parents' place before moving them. The passionfruit vine has climbed into the greenhouse after I moved and I have to clean that up without destroying the passionfruits that are hanging on the vine ^^

Comment by Donna on February 9, 2011 at 7:42: I'm not really sure what time this event starts, but I feel confident that 10.00am - 2.00pm would be a good time. It is likely to start earlier than that and end up a whole day event but I am not involved in organising it, simply passing on an email I received about it.

Comment by Sophie Munns on February 8, 2011 at 13:05: What a fantastic initiative ... Ill blog about it and have sent it to twitter Donna.

Sophie

Comment by Elaine de Saxe on February 8, 2011 at 10:17: I'll check through my books, bound to be some I don't use anymore might be useful for someone. Logistics of getting items to whoever is going though ...