Geelong Group ABA at Ecofest

The Australian Breastfeeding Association’s Geelong Group will be hosting a feed and change room for parents with babies. There will be breastfeeding counsellors available for advice and information to take home. Come and say hi!

This will be in the middle of the market space inside – with a small play room where your toddlers might be able to have a bit of a crawl while you feed.

For bigger kids there are some activities to get involved in – head out the back to the fenced in playground to see what you can get up to.

Ecofest presents… The Evening Cast!

We’re really pleased to announce that Festival favourites The Evening Cast will be playing a lunchtime set at ecofest.

Come along between 12:30 and 1:30 to listen to The Evening Cast play their upbeat lilting pop masterpieces with boy/girl harmonies while you chow down on your Kangaroo sausage or Vegie burger with freshly squeezed O.J.

Zazen Essential Water

Come along next Saturdayand chat with Tiz about the zazen water filtering systems.

The zazen akaline water systems is designed specifically for Australian and New Zealand water supplies.

Along with the Akaline water systems, there will be stainless steel drink bottles, shower filters and replacement filters.

 

For more info check out their website

Backyard Harvest

Only a week to go – how exciting!

Come along next Saturday and have a chat to Andrew. Bring along a soil sample  from your garden and he will do a free pH testing for you.

On the day Andrew will be selling raised timber garden beds, organic seedlings, and bagged compost for organic gardeners.

Timber for the garden beds is sourced locally untreated and designed for backyard food production.

Come along nice and early – for a 10am kickoff and you can catch Andrew’s workshop on composting – to be held at his stall outside.

See you in a week’s time!

Bee keeping Workshop

This is one you wont want to miss.

Inside at 11am on Saturday the 5th Derek Ryan will be leading this session on bee keeping. To help you get your head around the idea of keeping bees he will take you through some of the following;

1/  What are the regulations regarding backyard beekeeping.

2/  What is the minimum equipment needed to get started

3/  Where do you get bees

4/   What do I do if I have a swarm in my backyard

5/  Handling bees,  some does and don’ts.

6/  Some amazing bee facts

Cakes by Cathy

Indulge your senses while having peace of mind. Buy a scrumptious cup cake or biscuit and pair it with a refreshing cup of tea or coffee from Cakes by Cathy, made with local and fair trade products bringing hope to developing communities.
Cakes by Cathy will provide you with novelty decorated animal and floral cupcakes, delicious biscuits and tea and coffee.

Booloo babe

Looking for an alternative to supermarket disposable nappies?

Linda from Booloo Babe will be on hand at Ecofest to answer all your cloth nappy needs!

She will have a range of modern cloth nappies and accessories (wet bags, cloth wipes), breast pads made from bamboo and some handmade baby boys onesies.

You can have a bit of a look at the Booloo Babe website and come visit Linda at Ecofest.

Food Swap!

Do you have lemons rotting on the ground in your back yard?
Do you have more zucchinis than you can give away?
Are your chooks laying more eggs than you can eat?
Do you need help harvesting your otherwise wasted fruit?
Would you like an opportunity to discuss your successes (and failures!) with other gardeners in the
community?
Then come along to our fruit, veg and home-grown produce swap!

On Saturday 5th of November at Ecofest – This will be a joint food swap with the Manifold Heights Community Garden Food Swap. (- Thanks for that!) and will take place from 9am – 12noon.
Why?
The aim is to encourage sustainable gardening in the community and provide access to fresh local seasonal
produce.
How?
The swap operates on an honesty system: bring what you want, take what you feel is a fair exchange.
What?
You can bring home-grown fruit and veg, home-made preserves and cordials, home-baked cakes or bread,
eggs from your chooks, surplus seeds and seedlings, dried or potted herbs.
Any unused food is passed on to local charities for distribution.

There are a number of food swaps operating locally – ask at this one to find out more and checkout Food Skil

The Food Swap at Ecofest will be organised by Katie – who a number of you will know from other food swaps, community gardening and vegie garden workshops.

thanks Katie.

Look forward to seeing everyone with their fresh produce on the day.

tweet, tweet

Ecofest now has a twitter account – @Ecofest_WHUCA
We’d love you tweeps out there to help us build our followers and share all the latest updates about ecofest 2011 over the next few weeks with your followers – thanks!

 

and check back here tomorrow for a post about the food swap.

Electric Holden Rodeo Ute

That’s right – come along to ecofest and meet Peter who will have his converted Ute at the festival.

For a gold coin donation to Kid’s Helpline you can go for a short spin in this electric ute.

Find out more about converting cars to a cleaner energy source and lower your carbon footprint.