Transition Talk...

Things are developing here and nodes are starting to form.

If you are interested in any of the following, please let us know by emailing raintreeorganics[at]yahoo[dot]com[dot]au we are looking for people with an interest in these areas, either a passion or expertise to help get Transition Town Eudlo off and running.

Our next meeting is the first Sunday in June

Food Co-operative - taking part in the running of the new Eudlo Food Co-op
Seed Saving - join the seed saving group
Waste - working on local waste solutions for Eudlo - compost toilets, worm farming, reducing waste etc
Energy - interested in being part of the energy group - help set the agenda for energy resilience in Eudlo
Steam Team - interested in steam engines? So are others, let's get our collective genius together and come up with some solutions.

Cheers,
Sonya
Transition Town Eudlo
Coordinator

Eudlo Food Co-operative

Following the overwhelming interest in creating a community food co-operative we've been busily working behind the scenes to make it happen.

In June we will hold a get together and invite all the people who have already expressed interest - and anyone else who is interested to come along.

We'll kick start the ordering and explain how it will all work. We'll start with non-perishables, dried and canned goods, all organic and as local as possible.



Keep an eye on this blog for details of exactly when and where the Eudlo Food Co-op event will be.



Also, mark Sunday June 14 in your diary. That's the date of the Eudlo Winter Market - again at the Town Hall. We'll be there with fresh produce, plants, food, lots of information about what's happening and all things Transition Town.



Cheers,
Sonya
Transition Town Eudlo
Coordinator

Seedy Sundays Set to Take Off!

Welcome to Seedy Sundays - an idea shamelessly ripped off from the good people of Transition Towns UK, and it's probably one of the most important things we can do for the future.

Seedy Sundays are when people get together and bring seeds from their gardens, cuttings, plants, produce etc and swap them with each other.

Why is this so important?

Seed saving is probably one of the most important skills you can learn. For many years many of us have relied on buying our organic, non-hybrid open-pollinated seed from places like Green Harvest. But this may be changing in the near future. Now lots more people are wanting to grow their own food and they are also now turning to organic seed suppliers for stock.

But if we all keep just buying our seeds without replenishing the capital of our seed banks we will only continue to go into deficit - something we can not afford to do.

So being able to seed save means - we can replenish what we take out of the system, we can continue to support organic seed suppliers and savers and even help them maintain and increase their stock supplies.

We can grow true to type, heirloom, organic, real food in our own gardens. We can save our seeds and not be beholden to any non-organic (chemical) based seed company who modify their seeds to be infertile so we CAN'T save seeds (they want us to go back year after year to buy their latest varieties - not be self-reliant and grow and save our own).

So we have to get seed saving out their in the community, and it sits perfectly with Transition Towns.

The idea is to promote a time and place where we can all meet and encourage people to bring their seed from their garden, we can sit around and process the seed together then share it back among ourselves. This also increases the genetic diversity of the stock.



What you can do - learn to seed save (there are courses available), seed save at home, then start some type of seed saving group in your community, then link up into the national network of seed saving.

Keep an eye out for the first Eudlo Seedy Sunday event.



Cheers,
Sonya

Creating a culture of local food

The recent Eat Local Forum at Palmwoods attracted 150 people - a lot of people for a small town and considering the event didn't receive a lot of publicity.

It does show a shift in people's thinking though. For whatever reason, whether its cost, quality, environment, health or ethics, there seems to be a distinct shift toward local food.

Local, organic, in-season food. The renaissance of a local food culture.

So how do you go about creating a local food culture?

Plenty of people around Australia are doing it already - food box systems, community supported agriculture, school gardens, community gardens, permablitzes, farm gate sales... supporting local growers and importantly local food distribution points - including restaurants that support local organic growers.



I found a really interesting and inspiring site from Victoria the other day - the Community Harvest Project -

The Community Harvest Project exists to:
Help individuals and groups to grow or access healthy, sustainable, affordable, locally produced food.
Connect individuals and groups to share skills, knowledge, resources, and create a vibrant, cooperative and resilient community.
Help your community deal with climate change, peak oil and the rising cost of living.

Sounds like a great foundation for a Transition Town food sub-group.

It provides a framework for small scale growers to sell their surplus. For many of us, particularly here in Eudlo where we mostly have acreage, going full time into commercial food production is out of the question, but having a viable outlet to sell our chemical free, high-quality surplus is really appealing.



The Transition Town Eudlo Food Group has decided to start out with dried organic goods to kick off our Eudlo Food Co-operative. We chose dried goods because we have access to them at wholesale prices and because they don't need refrigeration. We also chose dried food as a lot of us already grow most of our fresh food, so there isn't a need for that.

Once we have the dried goods part of the co-op working well, we'll branch out into honey, tahini, tamari, oils... and then ultimately fresh produce: salad greens, vegetables, herbs, sub tropical perennials etc. We may even develop a market for preserves: jams, stewed fruit...



So far, we've had more than 30 - yes, 30! families in the Eudlo and Ilkley area sign up to be involved in the co-op. Another 30+ families in neighbouring towns also want to be part of it.

Sixty families in total to start our co-operative. That's fantastic and very heartening. It did come as a surprise for us, so we're going to rethink how we do this so it is successful, innovative, ethical and economically viable.

It's not to late to join in either, if you live in Eudlo, Ilkley, Palmwoods, Mooloolah or Woombye, get in contact - leave a comment here and you can be part of this exciting adventure!



[Some of these images were sourced from US websites]

Meetings, tours, workshops & courses!

Next meeting of Transition Town Eudlo is Sunday 3 May at 8.30am at Sweethearts' Cafe in the heart of Eudlo. All welcome, drop by for a coffee and chat, and to find out more about Transition Towns.

Also coming up in Eudlo - learn how you can become more self-reliant and start living more sustainably.

Sunday April 26 - Beginners' Guide to growing your own food. As more people choose to grow their own food at home, this one day workshop will take you through the basics of organic gardening and how to do it successfully. Turn your lawn into lunch. Covers how to get started, no-dig gardens, raised beds, where to source seeds and seedlings, how to get your soil right, organic pest management and much more. Cost is $70 includes handouts, morning tea, coffee and hands on practice.



Sunday May 3 - Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week - compost workshop at Eudlo. Discover the secrets to successful compost - Cost is $20




Monday May 4 - Permaculture Garden Tour - Visit one of Eudlo's well-known permaculture gardens. Two hour tour cost $5, limited places filling fast.

Saturday May 9 & Sunday May 10 - Introduction to Permaculture - at Eudlo once again. Learn the basics of permaculture and a heap of skills and ideas to help you start living more sustainably. Redesign and retrofit your home and garden to be more efficient, more cost effective and more productive! See permaculture in action. Includes lots of theory and hands on practice. Cost is $130 includes handouts, morning tea, coffee and hands on practice.

Sunday May 17 9am-12pm – ½ day workshop – Beginners’ guide to compost & worms
Discover the wonderful microbial world of compost and worms. Learn how to turn waste into garden gold. Soil is the secret of growing healthy food at home – learn how to do it the chemical free, natural way working with nature to create abundant fertility in your vegie patch and home orchard. Cost is $40 includes handouts, morning tea, coffee and hands on practice.

All workshops and courses are held at Permaculture Pathways, two acres of well-established food gardens. Learning in our living classroom.

For bookings or more information about any of these workshops, tours or courses email permaculturepathways [at] yahoo [dot] com or call 0408 013 012.

Permablitz!

We've been working on creating a Permablitz network on the Sunshine Coast. Permablitz is a concept created by Adam and Dan and many, many others in Victoria, who are making an impressive impact on backyards in Victoria with this very successful model of turning lawns into lunch. The photos above are from the Victorian Permablitz website.

While many other groups do working bees and energy exchanges, the Vic Permablitz people have been bringing in a whole new audience to permaculture - something we really need to focusing on at the moment. No use preaching to the converted! Time to venture out into the mainstream and get them gardening and more self-reliant!

This is how it goes; They organise a 'blitz' in someone's backyard. Now this is NOT like those terrible TV 'blitzes' where they make over a garden and fill it with useless plants that aren't good for anything except composting (I even saw one the other day where they had an outdoor waterproof big screen TV! - I couldn't believe it). You won't find a white pebble or an agave in site at a Permablitz, instead you'll find fruit trees, broccoli, spinach, asian greens, globe artichokes, cabbages, beans, edible flowers, edible water plants, eggplants and herbs... you get the (edible) picture.

The Permablitz team visit the site beforehand and come up with some permaculture solutions that meet that particular person's needs. They then advertise the blitz and people can just come along - the owner organises all the resources needed and puts the word out about anything people can bring on the day. Everyone brings a plate of food (preferably local and organic) to share and the work begins under the friendly supervision of some Permaculture designers.

They often get a particular expert - eg a top tree pruner or a herb expert - in to do a workshop so the blitzer can learn even more about food.



They are going great guns in Vic and deserve a great big huge edible medal! Well done!

There aim is "... to make the suburbs edible enough such that should food become unaffordable, we don't even notice."

Oh, by the way, you need to go to three Permablitzes and be actively involved, then you get one at your place - they (and we) aren't a volunteer team of people who do your garden for you, you have to put energy into the system before you can take out - that's nature. There is no such thing as a free lunch, even if it's from your own garden.

While Permablitz is grounded in fun, play, sharing and informal learning, it's really playing a much, much deeper role at a very important time.

Permablitzes take food production right into backyards. This is crucial. While it's great to have community gardens and school gardens, people need to do this at home to back up the whole system. No point having 200,000 people nearby thinking they are all going to decend on your place or your community garden when the shit hits the fan.

They also make organic food accessible to all, not just those who can afford to buy it in the shops. Everyone has the right to fresh, healthy, chemical free food.

It allows people to move away from being dependent on industrial agricultural system and the multi-nationals who supply a lot of our food.

It brings food back to a local level, increases your appreciation of good food, reduces food miles and cuts carbon emissions in your household dramatically.

Teach people how to do it themselves, then encourage them to teach others and so on. A fantastic model for our present times.

Here in Eudlo we've done a few Permablitzes through Transition Town Eudlo. While the Vic people have the people, we have the acreage it seems. In our photos the people are pretty light on, but we've got plenty of room to play in!

So, here are a few photos of our Permablitzes.

Starting with [BELOW] discussing the plan of action BEFORE we start! Always a good idea!





[ABOVE: many hands make log move]



[ABOVE: keeping the kids amused and safe]



[ABOVE: by the end of the day, these new raised beds were planted out with vegies and salad greens - we used a no dig recipe to get them done in a day]



[ABOVE: learning how to plant out vetiver grass around the new water feature]

"Permablitz is a social enterprise committed to improving the sustainability of our cities and suburbs. We use a sustainable design system called permaculture to help communities move away from denial and depdendent consumerism to engagement and responsible production. Our core focus is helping people sustainabily grow food where they live, building healthy community in the process. Rather than depressing people with the bad news, we empower them with the good news - that the solutions are at hand - and get on with having fun rolling them out." Dan Palmer - Permablitz Vic.

If you are intrested in contributing toward the development of Permablitz Sunshine Coast, please get in touch I'm very keen to get this up and running here.

Cheers,
Sonya
Transition Town Eudlo Coordinator

April Meeting

We had a great meeting this month. Although Sweetheart's was closed! We could have done with a coffee, but oh well, can't have everything.

Lots of new faces and people interested in both gardening and the bigger picture Transition Town approach of looking at all systems under pressure from oil and climate issues.

Food is a great starting place, but Transition Towns are so much more. Looking forward to getting groups started in waste, energy, transport, education and all those sectors.

There are a few activities on locally between now and the next meeting - April 20-23 there is a Dynamic Groups for Transition Workshop on at Cooroy with the wonderful Robin Clayfield.

All these events are detailed on the SEAC website at www.seac.net.au under events - costs, booking details etc.

April 26 - Beginner's Guide to growing your own food on at Eudlo. Full day of learning how to start and maintain home food production systems - vegie beds, compost, worm farms... all the good stuff.

May 3 - the day of our next meeting, but also International Compost Awarness Week - there will be a compost workshop at Eudlo to celebrate - 10am-noon Cost $20.

May 4 - Labour Day Garden Tour - visit a permaculture garden and see the fruits of its Labour! Tour runs from 9-11am and costs $5 per head. Numbers are strictly limited so book early.

See www.seac.net.au for all the details

Next meeting Sunday May 3 at 8.30am at Sweetheart's - if they are closed again, we'll be over in the school yard under their shelter.

Cheers,
Sonya

Sunshine Coast weather

Eudlo has certainly had more than its share of rain the past few days. This is a photo of the town end of our road taken just this morning.

The meeting is still on for tomorrow, particularly if we don't get anymore rain, this should clear quickly and travel will be back to normal.

We can all get together and share rain stories and see how we're all coping with the soggy conditions.

Sonya

Meeting this week

[Above: a display of the types of foods we'll be ordering through our food co-op]

This Sunday is our regular meeting for Transition Town Eudlo. Hopefully it won't be too rained out - we've had some localised flooding overnight and yesterday.

We meet at Sweetheart's Cafe in Eudlo at 8.30am for a coffee, a catch up and a chat. You're welcome to come along if you are interested in Transition Towns.

We'll also be able to talk about the very successful Local Food Forum we had last weekend at Palmwoods. I've attached some photos here.

[A photo of the crowd, about 140 people turned up, and a photo of some sweet potato plants we have for sale]





Our Sunday morning meetings are very social, often with new people turning up wanting to know about the group or Transition Towns in general.

Some people also come to our meetings because they are thinking about moving to Eudlo and want to get a feel for the town.

There aren't many community groups you can turn up to and find out such things, so that's yet another need that TTs fill.

[Below: a photo of the mind map I put together on local food solutions]

Local Food Forum

Growing Your Own Food - From Backyards to Small Acreage - forum at Palmwoods Hall Saturday March 28 1-5pm.

Growing our food is a daily part of life on Earth. It is a practice that is both art and science, one which joins communities, sustains health and well being and lifts the spirits. Out of patient toil and from the seeming chaos of Nature, we can receive abundance.

In recent times, many of us have reclaimed this activity in our own backyards, within community plots and on smaller acreage.

Many more of us want to know the best way to create a robust food garden using sustainable means.

Uncertainty about economic prospects, ill health brought on by modern farming practices, environmental pollution and a simple need to eat fresh, health giving food has brought us to the realisation that we can achieve a positive change through our gardens that benefit the community.

On Saturday March 28, from 1pm until 5pm, the forum 'Growing Your Own Food - From Backyards to Small Acreage' will be held at the Palmwoods Hall.

Guest presenters include Janet Millington and Sonya Wallace Permaculture Educators and Transition Town Coordinators, Dave Hofman Biodynamic Educator and Soil Remediation Consultant, Kathryn Alexander Naturopath Gerson Therapist and author of Dietary Healing, Liz Hanson self reliant Permaculture Gardener, Bob Lewis Worm Farmer and Worm Industry Consultant and you, our notable audience.

This forum will look at the reasons for growing our own food, ways to network to secure access and how to go about it all.

Information about local resources and support/learning networks will be provided as will an afternoon tea.

Palmwoods Hall. Doors open at 12:30pm for a 1pm start and 5pm finish.

Admission is a gold coin. Refreshments will be available at a reasonable cost.

For more information ring Monique @ 5478 9364 or Robyn @ 5445 9923.

And here's some local food from my garden to get your imagination going...

Eudlo Autumn Market

Here are some photos from today's very successful Autumn Market - hot off the press!



Our stall was a combination of fresh local produce from our own gardens, cooked local goodies, hard to find food plants, information on cooking and bread making courses and permaculture and transition town courses, plus lots more.



Lots of people signed up to join the Eudlo Food Co-operative, so that looks like taking off!



And Ann and Bill's beautiful Gypsy Wagon attracted a lot of attention too.

Cheers,
Sonya

Market this Sunday

The Eudlo Market is looking like a great day. It's on this Sunday March 15 from 7am in the Eudlo Town Hall. Transition Town Eudlo will be there with information and resources about Transition Towns, climate change and peak oil.

We'll also have some local produce to sell - local organic home grown food, plants and other goodies.

Hoping the weather holds off and we get lots of visitors. Will take some photos and let you know how it all goes.

Cheers,
Sonya

Eudlo Town Market

Eudlo will host a market day on Sunday March 15 from 7am at the Town Hall.

Transition Town Eudlo will be there with information about what we're up to, how you can be involved and we'll also have some yummy local organic fresh food for you to buy.

The markets have given Eudlo a new dimension in community. People swarmed to the last one proving these types of events, where people get to meet their neighbours are popular.

About Eudlo

Eudlo is located on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. It's a small town with about 850 residents. It used to be a cattle and timber town, but now has a train station, general store, tennis courts, rural fire service, post office, school, town hall and a new coffee shop.

Eudlo is indigenous Australian for 'eels' and we have eels in our dams here. We are located between Mooloolah to the south and Palmwoods to our north. We also have Chenrezig Buddhist Institute here.

Our rainfall averages about 1500mm and climate is subtropical.

Not many people work in Eudlo, most residents have to commute to work although there are many people working from home here too.

Eudlo doesn't have any town water or sewerage, so it is unlikely to be developed in the future.

Eudlo is also the Sunshine Coast's first Transition Town within the Transition Sunshine Coast regional structure.

This year we will be working on community projects and starting work on our Energy Descent Action Plan.

New Transition Handbook!

Available February 25th - how exciting! The newest Transition Handbook is due out and the Sunshine Coast is in it.

Here is a summary from Finch Publishers

Around the world, societies are facing the prospect of a future with dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. What are the ways we might move away from our dependency on oil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and still enjoy a good quality of life?

The Transition Handbook provides accounts of how individuals have responded with their local communities to the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change. This practical book explains how we can ‘transition’ from fossil-fuel based communities to ones that are more self-reliant and generate less carbon emissions. The Transition Handbook shows how such changes will result in a greater development of local food, local economies, local water harvesting and energy generation – and so create more sustainable communities in the longer term.

The Transition Handbook includes detailed accounts of Transition initiatives in the UK (where they now number more than 100) and profiles of Australian and New Zealand initiatives currently underway. This inspiring guide shows the necessary steps to establishing a transition town in a local area and provides an achievable model for people who would like to transform the life of their community.

‘This is a rare book. Not only does it educate and inspire you on the path to sustainability, it also shows you how to get their by being a great “how to do it” manual. It has already had an impact even before it’s release here. Towns from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of Australia to Nelson on the coast of New Zealand are amongst the many communities already influenced by Rob Hopkins’s work. This local release is sure to inspire many more.’ PAUL KLYMENKO, Planet Ark

‘The Transition Handbook clearly sets out the unprecedented and looming challenges climate change and peak oil pose for our civilization, and makes it clear that a concerted community response is our only option. And yet, the book is a profoundly positive – even joyous – read because it tells us how working together as communities and facing these challenges head-on will give us the capacity not just to survive but to actively build a future that is better than our alienated and oil-fuelled present. ... [It] is your invitation to join a clear-eyed, community-based, worldwide movement of grounded visionaries who choose hope and action over denial and apathy.’ NICK HEAP and DAVID SUZUKI, The David Suzuki Foundation

‘The Transition Towns process is one of the most exciting outcomes of permaculture thinking and action in the world today. ... It promises to be the guide for peak oil and permaculture activists everywhere who are taking action in the their local communities.’ DAVID HOLMGREN, co-originator of the permaculture concept and author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

‘The Transition concept is one of the big ideas of our time ... it is inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead of fear.’ PATRICK HOLDEN, director of the Soil Association

‘This book, by the visionary architect of the Transition movement, is a must-read. Growing numbers with their microscopes trained on peak oil are convinced that we have very little time to engineer resilience into our communities before the last energy crisis descends. This issue should be of urgent concern to every person who cares about their children, and all who hope there is a viable future for human civilization post-petroleum.’ JEREMY LEGGETT, author of The Carbon War and Half Gone

About the Author

Rob Hopkins is a co-founder of the Transition Network. He has been a teacher of Permaculture and natural building for many years – and has a background in creating practical solutions to environmental problems. Having successfully devised an Energy Descent Plan for Kinsale in Ireland (which was later adopted as policy by the town council), Rob initiated Transition Town Totnes, the first UK town to address the issues of life after peak oil. He publishes www.transitionculture.org.

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What is a Transition Town?

Good question. People ask me that all the time. But I must admit it is hard to define in a neat sentence or two. But here goes.

Transition Towns…

Support community-led responses to both climate change and peak oil. They do this by building community resilience through positive action.

They (a group of committed people who want to do something for a positive future), look at all the vulnerabilities and opportunities pertaining to their particular ‘transition area’ however that is defined.

They look at
how they can reduce their carbon emissions,
how they can reduce their reliance on fossil fuels,
how they can move away from dangerous climate change levels
how they can wean themselves of being so reliant on fossil fuels
and how they will cope after peak oil.

They look at food, water, energy, waste, transport, education, legislation… you get the picture. And then they find ways to build resilience into those production and supply systems.

Transition Towns also trust that a lot of these solutions lie in the community. They facilitate the unleashing of the creative genius in the community.

They understand that the type of thinking that got us into the vulnerable position is NOT the type of thinking that will get us out.

They also acknowledge that we are all in this together. No one gets away from the effects of climate change or peak oil.

So for example, they might decide self-reliance in water is a good starting point and organise a rain water tank bulk buy for their group. They might also arrange a guest speaker to come and talk about using grey water, or reed beds. Or perhaps someone who can talk about waterless toilets.

They might also be interested in local waste management and organise a composting workshop focussing on how householders can be manage putrescible waste (kitchen scraps and the like) on site in their own backyards, keeping it out of methane producing landfill site and instead turning it into useful fertiliser for their gardens.

They might then decide to start a local worm farm, or a compost group at their local school, or whatever best suits their community’s needs.

Looking at how to make their lives more resilient, most groups quickly come to the conclusion that diversity (different ways of getting the same thing – or ‘not putting all your eggs in one basket’) and localisation (having the majority of things that you use and need every day available from within your local area) are the best ways to go. Local goods have a lot less carbon emissions generally because they haven’t travelled so far. Local goods also keep your money in your local economy and support local jobs.

So, Transition Towns support these ideas by creating opportunities for increasing diversity and the localisation of systems.

Let’s take food as an example.

Most people rely on the duopoly of the two major supermarkets for their food supply. They assume that to some degree the shelves will also be full, the choices varied and the doors open.

But – what if a significant climate event shuts your local store. What if it cuts roads to your local store? You can’t get there and neither can the trucks. What if a fuel crisis cuts supplies to your local store? What if fossil fuel depletion dramatically affects the prices of the food at your local store?

What back up plan do you have to feed your family? Relying on the government to do something is out of the question – if these events are affecting your community, chances are they are affecting a lot of other communities and government just won’t have the resources to cope – that is fundamental to Transition Towns – it’s about taking responsibility for yourself and your family and becoming more self-reliant. (Not self-sufficient, this isn’t about creating isolation, its about creating communities).

A Transition Town might build resilience, diversity and localisation in their food systems by; holding organic gardening courses for residents, running working bees and permablitzes (where permaculture people come in and make over your ornamental garden and lawn with edible plants), they might start a community campaign for a farmers’ market, they might start a food bulk-buy, co-operative or food box system.

They might start a community garden, or approach the local school to start a garden the community can use on the weekend.

They might start a program to deliver fresh organic food to people who are struggling financially. They might run cooking classes showing new mums how to prepare healthy food for their families on a budget. They might bring in guest speakers to talk about genetically modified food, they might lobby for food miles taxes to be added to food… you can begin to see how far and wide Transition Towns can reach.

Now all of these ideas are already happening in Transition Towns around the world.

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel, you just need to tap into what is already there and happening.

Visit www.seac.net.au for more information on Transition Towns.

A slight change of focus

I've revised the ideas on our flier - just to ensure people understand that Transition Towns are not 'gardening' clubs. While there is a focus on food, it's not our only focus and we need to balance it with transport, waste, water, energy, economics and employment.

Transition Town Eudlo

Are you interested in;
• Growing healthy organic food at home
• Reducing your household bills
• Switching to solar or wind energy
• Composting toilets
• Worm farming and recycling
• Local businesses, local employment & LETS
• Transport solutions
• Finding creative ways to live better on less $$
• Seed saving & plant propagation
• Permaculture solutions
• Being part of permaculture working bees
• Bulk-buying food and garden materials
• Setting up a Eudlo Food Co-operative
• Establishing other community collectives
• Working with others on climate change & peak oil
• Local community resilience as a Transition Town

Then why not join us, we meet on the first Sunday of the month at 8.30am at Sweetheart’s Café in Eudlo.

visit: transitioneudlo.blogspot.com
email: raintreeorganics@yahoo.com.au

2009 Plans...

We had our first meeting for 2009 on the first Sunday of February with an excellent turn out of people. New faces from neighbouring towns - Palmwoods, Mooloolah and Keil Mountain.

We've decided to keep Sunday morning get togethers as a social catch up and we'll start a core group of initiators working on projects that will meet separately. That way we can spend time meeting new people, talking to others and still have a formed group who work together to get projects done in the community.

Interest of the group lies in food, energy, water, waste and heart & soul, so that is an excellent foundation for us to start from.

A great starter project is a food co-operative.

Other passions include biodynamics, permaculture and homeopathic remedies for gardens, seed saving, herbs and alternative medicine.

Event ideas include local market and local film nights.

Core group will be meeting February 24th at 7pm at our place to start work on projects and who can do what.

And we're off...

Time to get serious now... next meeting first Sunday of November at 8.30am in the park opposite the Eudlo General Store. Or if Sweetheart's Cafe is open, we might head over there.

A local market, the Eudlo food co-op, seed saving group activities and our next permablitz will be on the agenda.

Transition Town Eudlo

Are you interested in;
• Relocalisation (becoming less reliant on fossil fuels)
• Growing healthy organic food at home
• Permaculture & organic gardening
• Seed saving & plant propagation
• Helping out at Permablitz working bees
• Reducing your food and energy bills
• Bulk-buying dried organic goods
• Setting up a Eudlo Food Co-operative
• Establishing other community collectives
• Community orchards & edible landscapes
• Creating a stronger & more resilient community
• Working with others on climate change & peak oil
• Finding out what’s going on in Eudlo
• Moving from oil dependency to local resilience as a Transition Town

Then please join us and together we'll move from oil dependency to local resilience.

We're official

Well, we've made it! Eudlo is officially a Transition Town. Next step - starting to document what it is we're doing and working on things like establishing a food co-op, more permablitzes etc.

Exciting times indeed. Numbers are building too, with more and more people wanting to get involved.

Our next meeting is Sunday November 2 at 8.30am in the park opposite the General Store.

Cheers,
Sonya