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Saturday 4 April 2020, 9am to 11am, Easter surprises and Painting adventures for kids, with Gayle & Sharni

10/03/2020 By

This month we’ve found lots of Easter surprises for kids to create.

We’ll have painting adventures & wonderful things to make from nature. Weather permitting we’ll be doing a Nature based Easter Hunt in the gardens with lots of surprises.

Suitable for ages 5 and above and all children to be accompanied by an adult.

Gayle & Sharni our wonderful volunteers will be running the Easter surprises & Painting adventures for Kids

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Filed Under: Recent Workshops Tagged With: easter, Kids event, painting

Saturday 11 April 2020, 9am to 11am, Ferment your Pizza with Elisabeth Fekonia

10/03/2020 By

Come along and watch, learn and participate as Elisabeth Fekonia prepares and cooks a fully fermented pizza. The pizza will be made by volunteers from the group to make a sourdough pizza base, fermented toppings and of course the Mozzarella cheese! Taste testing of the baked pizzas will be available at the end of the session.

A limited number of take-home recipe sheets, showing recipes for the fermented dough, tomato paste, bean pate, mozzarella and any other ingredients added at the time, will be available for sale on the day for an additional cost of $5 [cash please], or can be purchased and downloaded from the Yandina Community Gardens website for the same price of $5, after the workshop.

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About the Presenter:

It all began 26 years ago when Elisabeth and her late husband Frank decided to become food self sufficient from their 6 acre farm at Black Mountain. After a steady diet of pumpkins and chokos, Elisabeth knew there needed to be more diversity in their diet if they were to remain healthy. Many trips to the library taught how to ferment food such as cheese, sourdough, wine, kimchi, miso and many other fermented foods. Consequently these many fermented foods were grouped into short workshops to teach others how to create their own ferments and this has resulted in a business 15 years ago. Elisabeth travels all over Queensland and beyond to teach these fermenting classes and she has just had an inspiration to make pizzas from fermented foods- with home mozzarella of course!

Filed Under: Recent Workshops Tagged With: Elisabeth Fekonia, fermented foods, fermented foods workshop, pizza

GG’s Magical Cold & Flu Elixir from the garden

09/03/2020 By

My Grandfather Old Jack used to cut an onion in half & put it under
his bed at first sign of Cold or Flu… He swore by it…
This is my modern version I’ve been using for years… trust me it’s
delicious.
Into a large bottle put:
1 large or 2 small Onions roughly cut
1 whole Garlic .  roughly cut
1 lemon/lime cut in slices
About 2 inches of fresh Ginger
Fresh Turmeric
Cover all this with equal parts of Apple Cider Vinegar & Honey. I mix mine in a jug or jar & pour in to cover all ingredients well.  Allow to sit for at least a week to allow all the goodness of each to seep into the vinegar mix.
Take a large spoonful or two in a glass of warm water when you feel the need of a soothing winter drink.
Will last a year or more if forgotten.
The honey & cider vinegar are wonderful preservers & picklers.   Make a new lot when it starts to get low.
This is the first year I’ll add Turmeric… as I’ve seen articles raving about it’s wonderful properties for colds & flu… so I can’t vouch for the taste… but the other ingredients become a very mild blend of deliciousness.
Happy Brewing!

 

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: ginger, Healthy body, Recipe, Turmeric

Is Growing and Eating Organic Food enough? By Leonie Shanahan

17/02/2020 By

Is growing and eating Organic Food enough?

By Leonie Shanahan

                                                    

We organic gardeners go to great lengths to create soils full of life which in turn creates the cleanest, healthiest food possible. Keeping our food clean and free of toxic chemicals is so important, but for many people that is the limit of their toxin-free commitment.

 

Have you considered the chemicals you put on your body every morning? And the chemicals in your home, car and workspace?

Before the average woman even leaves her home each morning, she puts 168 chemicals on her body via personal care products such as deodorant, moisturiser, hair products, shampoo, soap, perfume etc. For men that number is around 85; for example, shaving cream, aftershave and deodorant.

These (usually synthetic) chemicals slowly accumulate in your body and over time will weaken your defence system, disrupt your endocrine system and may lead to cancer or other serious health issues.

You may not be aware of it but wearing artificial scents either as perfume or other products (e.g. make up, moisturiser, sunscreen and shampoos) may cause health-compromised people to experience a serious flare up of symptoms. Even by simply walking past them! Some people may even need to carry oxygen at all times to cope with the ingestion of fragrances, whether it occurs through breathing it in or absorption through the skin. Even taste buds may absorb a smell wafting by, without the product or wearer even touching the person. Scents may also trigger asthma attacks, migraines, headaches and brain fog. It can take days or weeks to recover.

You may think it sounds crazy, but it isn’t – in Canada for example, they have a fragrance-free policy for workplaces. Do you have a neighbour who is always grumpy? Maybe her immune system has been triggered (and she is therefore feeling unwell) due to your highly fragrant laundry detergent. This is a real and challenging problem for chronically ill people who may even have to shut up their whole house until the neighbour’s washing is dry! Or consider that faint whiff of detergent on your clothes, this might be making a work friend sick!

All of the products below may contain chemicals which travel straight into your brain via your nose as you breath them in. These chemicals will affect your health.

  • Air fresheners (instead, open a window please),
  • candles,
  • cleaning products,
  • laundry detergent,
  • anti-bacterial soap,
  • fragrant hand creams,
  • hand wipes/baby wipes,
  • plug-in toxic smells,
  • fragrances in your toilet bowl,
  • deodorisers and fresheners in your car.

The health effects of synthetically fragrant products are also passed onto unborn children. Never expose your newborn baby to any of the above-mentioned kinds of fragrances, their tiny bodies already have enough to deal with in our chemically laden world.

Before you put anything on your skin, try asking yourself “Is this product natural, safe and therefore of benefit to myself and those around me?” Quality essential oils (Young Living and Doterra are pure sources) are a much better choice, though please bear in mind that some sensitive people may react to them as well.

 

Remember why we grow and eat organic food – Because we don’t want toxic exposure! We don’t want chemical build up in our body to compromise our immune system and encourage dis-ease – This is the exact reason we don’t want any chemically toxic personal care(?!) products in our home and especially, not on our bodies.

 

It’s time to use our common sense about what is good for us. Ignore advertising lies and corporate greed and instead consider the integrity and ingredients of every product and discern what truly is healthy for humans and nature.

 

You can find more information in Kate Grenville’s brilliant book: The Case Against Fragrance or visit the many toxin-free information sites and shops online.

For further reading:

Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association Qld Inc. (ASEHA Qld Inc)

Kate Grenville discusses her latest book The Case Against Fragrance with Gia Metherell,

The Conversation: Something smells off: Kate Grenville’s case against fragrance

The Guardian: Kate Grenville interview: why perfumes are making you sick

 

Leonie Shanahan

Author of Eat Your Garden & DVD: Edible School Gardens

www.EdibleSchoolGardens.com.au

Leonie@EdibleSchoolGardens.com.au           Phone: 0479 054347

                                              

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: chemical free living

Saturday 23rd January 2021, 4pm to 6pm, War on Waste with Sandie Johnston

17/02/2020 By

It’s as easy as Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Join Sandie Johnston from Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program to explore how we can start rethinking waste. Find out just what can go in your recycling bin and discover why Resource Recovery Centres are much more than landfills.

Book here

 

About the presenter:

Sandie Johnston is the coordinator for the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program. After more than 15 years of educating and inspiring the Sunshine Coast community, she’s happy to say that her workshops are much more than just ‘Talking Rubbish’.

 

Filed Under: Recent Workshops Tagged With: recycle, reduce, resuse, Sunshine coast council, war on waste

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