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'Waste-to-Food': in-bed worm farms and the square metre garden

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Summary

Boost the productivity of your vegetable garden by learning how to make an in-bed worm farm!

Start Date

2nd Sep 2013 12:00pm

End Date

2nd Sep 2013 1:00pm

Venue

Outside the Architecture Building, Inveresk Campus. In case of rain, the venue will be the front foyer of the Architecture Building.

RSVP / Contact Information

Amanda.Cromer@utas.edu.au

The GEL (Grow. Eat. Learn) project is being led by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, in collaboration with local business, the University of Tasmania's School of Architecture (headed up by Professor Stephen Loo), UTAS students and Tasmanian primary and secondary students.

Spread across five Launceston (northern Tasmania) sites, GEL will measure the productivity of a popular urban food-production system - the square-metre vegetable garden.

This workshop will show participants how to make and use an in-bed worm farm. Five lucky participants will participate by making the worm farms, and will go home with an in-bed worm farm.

The workshop will be run by TIA researchers, Dr Anna Carew and Dr Fiona Kerslake.

Further information about the project is available here: http://blogs.utas.edu.au/gel/

Local Community groups, Government, Business and UTAS Staff and Students are invited to attend.