We want to invite everyone to Ediblescapes’ monthly events.
Finally we have good news and can host gardening events!
Fortunately, it seems that average weather conditions will return during 2023.
Still better, the antisocial pandemic restrictions are now a survivor’s story.
Celebrate International Women’s Day at our Cultural Diversity Women’s Garden.
You can taste some fruits from trees planted on International Women’s Day back in 2019.
To make this reunion memorable, you are invited to bring perennial plants, herbs or flowers to plant around these trees.
At this mixed reality art exhibition visitors will use their mobile phones to see 3D images movies and sound floating over the backdrop of the gardens.
Ediblescapes propose an agroecological agroforestry zone atthe Horticulture Hub of Nerang’s Country Paradise Parkland.
You will update on the current project advances and the outcome of the later conversation with the Council and Parkland administrator.
Became a Friends of the Ediblescapes Agroforestry group
Expression of support will benefit the project’s likelihoodoutcome.
Let activate an active waiting period by letting the Ediblescapes gardens become the mother placenta to feed the anticipated Agroforestry zone. Bring tree and plant cuttings, seeds, seedlings, saplings, anything for propagation, native and metropolitan, people and wildlife edible; all it is about dense diversity at Ediblescapes living ecosystem.
Urban Agroforestry
Integrating agroforestry in an urban setting could enhance the area’s sustainability and combat climate threats. In addition, urban agroforestry can reduce the ecological footprint by increasing ecosystem services. Agroforestry is a practice that integrate trees and woody perennials with crops.
Urban agroforestry plays an essential role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Including trees and woody perennials contributes significantly to the diversity of agroecosystems, which provides soil conservation services, habitat preservation and sustainability of organic crops and urban food sovereignty.
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INVITATION TO THE EDIBLESCAPES INC. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Members and supporters of Ediblescapes Inc. are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to receive reports on our activities for the year and to elect officers for the ensuing year. The AGM will be conducted at 9.00 am on Saturday, 17th June 2023, at the Ediblescapes Garden site at 74 Billabirra Crescent, Nerang.
Following theAGM, we invite you to attend a garden enhance working bee. Culminating the morning activity with forages and tasting the edible garden with eat together lunch.
It will begreatly appreciated if you confirm your attendance by RSVP
Ediblescapes commence the Agroforestry project with a decolonisation action gesture. With respect, ask permission from the original custodians to nurture a new edible rainforestat Nerang Parklands.
With the Kombumerri rangers, we would be foraging native microorganisms from the GIPA forest to propagate them at Ediblescapes for the Agroforestry zone.
Agroforestry has been a food production system within the forests since immemorial times, indigenous and peasants community continue to practise it, and the agroecology and syntropic movements are disseminating agroforestry food solutions as an alternative to the systemic collapsing of the agribusiness food system.
The Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area (IPA). At the foot of Mount Tamborine, it covers 100 hectares of dense rainforest and vine thickets, eucalypt woodlands and picturesque creeks. Guanaba is part ofthe traditional lands of the Kombumerri people, who have inhabited the Gold Coast and its hinterland for at least 24,000 years. The Kombumerri are part of the Bundjalung-Yugambir language group.
The Ngarang-Wal Gold Coast Aboriginal Association represent Kombumerri descendants of the people of the Gold Coast area and keeps cultural traditions alive through Cultural Heritage activities. Ngarang-Wal means‘ Nerang River’, acknowledging a relationship with the river as a food source and a connection to salt water.
Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance will assess the agroecological status of the Agroforestry zone landscapes at Nerang Country Paradise Parklands.
Ediblescapes proposes to develop a 2000m2 demonstrative Agroforestry Zone. Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. In this case we propose an adaptation of Inga Alley Cropping to urban setting.
Inga Alley Cropping is based on the power of legumes to fix nitrogen from the air, thus fertilising the soil by making nitrogen available to plants. Inga edulis is a legume tree. Inga trees are planted in rows, like hedges with 50cm between each tree, or more open distance if you are planning to combine with productive tree or plant like pineapples. The rows are planted with space of 4m between them. The inga are then pruned, the bigger branches are useful for biochar. The rest is left to rot down to a fertile mulch in the alleys. The crops are planted into this. The crops grow well, are harvested, and the trees regrow. The cycle is repeated year on year.
The system is suitable for our weather conditions as inga edulis need over 1200mm rainwater annually, which is the average of our annual precipitation. Inga will grow on degraded, acid soils, making it ideal for regenerating damaged lands. This inga can also be planted directly planting into immature compost, so we will experiment with a generous mulch layer.
The aim of developing an Agroforestry Zone is to provide an agroecology site where urban, peri-urban, and hinterland food growers from the local community can observe and analyse the applied agroecology practices and principles demonstrated at the site. The project will develop knowledge through horizontal conversations and access to educational programs as well as encourage the
transition to agroecological food production. The project will address food security through direct provision of food grown onsite to the local community; it will support the circular economy through the collection and use of organic waste to grow compost and then donate nitrogen-fixing trees grown on-site to locals.
