sustainbility tour of Melton library this Saturday

This coming Saturday (26 October '13) the Melton Sustainable Living Group are having a bumper meeting - first a tour of the sustainability features of Melton's new library, then a workshop to plan our future events!

We will kick off at 10am with the sustainability features tour, run by Kellie from Melton City Council. After some morning tea, we will then get into planning our future events. We welcome your enthusiasm, ideas and offers, including joint activities with other local groups.

If you would like to join the group, please email Patrick (our secretary) at meltonsustainblelivinggroup@gmail.com

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Kazza said…

Shared this link on Facebook group Melton Bowerbirds. Hope to see you at 10am this morning.

26 October 2013 at 07:51

Clay Oven Workshop

On Saturday, the group held a clay oven workshop at Gavin & Kims place which was well attended by members of the Melton Sustainable Living Group. We had ten willing workers at our disposal, and we managed to occupy them all on various tasks during the day. So from this: To this in two hours (plus one day's drying and sand removal)! So let me step you through what we did during the workshop. However, be warned, there are lots of photos (click to enlarge). Before everyone turned up at 10am, I received an order at 8am of 1 cubic metre of packing sand, which has a high clay content. Kim and I had to shift this sand from the roadside to the area where we were making the oven. It took me the good part of an hour to do this work alone. After a cuppa and a biscuit, I made this template for the sand dome. It is 50cm high and 85cm wide. This picture shows how the sand dome was being formed. Four people on a quadrant building up sand. Here is the sand dome nearly

MSLG Mozzarella Workshops

by Gavin Webber I find teaching people new skills exciting and very satisfying. Saturday was no exception. This workshop was offered to members of the Melton Sustainable Living Group and if we were desperate for numbers, it was going to be open to friends. However it turned out to be so popular that we had 12 interested members within a week. I offered my services for free and each student paid $15 to cover organic milk costs and ingredients. As I mentioned in my last post, I split the workshop participants in half, and I taught two back to back mozzarella cheese making workshops, the first from 10am - 12pm, then a break and the next from 2pm - 4pm. Both classes were fully booked, however we had a late cancellation for the first class. You can see the setup below. This is the undercover area just at the entrance to the house. Nice and clean and out of the weather. You can see six small camp stoves, rubber gloves, and clean tea towels to place their utensils onto.

Awareness Meeting

Don’t forget the MSLG Awareness meeting being held on the 7th May 2009. Please refer to the poster below for details. Click to enlarge. There will be two presentations, one by Gavin about his journey towards a sustainable lifestyle, and one from another group, who will hopefully talk about why and how they formed their group and what projects they have done. It should make for an interesting evening. How to see you, and any prospective members there. Don’t forget to try and put up a few flyers on community notice boards during the weekend. Thanks!

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