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ening with Satya Activities for November

November is a busy month for most of us, packed with end-of-year commitments, social events and forays into Christmas. But, amongst the busy-ness, there's still room for 'green goodness' and taking time out to small the roses.

Satyae Senses

Feast for the Senses
7th annual organic Vegan feast

Looking to take a friend to dinner? Enjoy a sumptuous feast and help the earth at Friends of the Earth's annual fundraiser banquet.

FOOD, FRIENDS, MUSIC, AND MERRIMENT – A FEAST FOR THE SENSES

Friends of the Earth are holding their 7th Feast for the Senses this November the 15th. On Saturday night the “feasters” will take part in a delicious 3-course meal made from the freshest of produce sourced from local organic growers and community gardens around Brisbane. Come along and discover just how good fresh food can taste.

While your taste buds feast on food your ears will also be in for a treat. A mix of fantastic local musicians and bands are set to play all night to gently accompany you through dinner and then to get your groove going for an evening of dancing.

The feast - Where & When
Kurilpa Hall, 174 Boundary St, West End

Saturday, 15 November

6:30pm - Midnight

Live bands start at 9:30

Meal is $40 waged/$25 concession. Bands are $15 waged/$10 concession.

Tickets are available here at Bliss - only 100 are available.

More info: www.brisbane.foe.org.au

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Organic Gardening with Satya is on of the sponsors of this years Feast of the Senses

"Satya's Secrets for Abundant Gardens"

Two hours high quality time (along with four other people just like you) in
a supportive atmosphere, held in a garden

with your Gardenmate, Satya - Consultant Organic Gardener
Your opportunity to
- find out about what is organic gardening from a consultant who knows...
- seek solutions to your organic garden challenges
- ask the organic gardening questions you were always too afraid to ask
- he will have a small presentation available if needed. However the goal is
you arrive with your list of " I'd like to knows' and he will answer,
demonstrate etc. for you and the group.
- he may do a basic design presentation on the garden we are in, time
allowing.

"Healing the Inner Garden"

- a full (1.5 hour) ' Therapy Session with Satya', Holistic Therapist
of energetic-emotional-physical-spiritual-sharmanic healing for whatever you
wish to work on right now.
This session will be at Sowelu, 83 Latrobe Tce Paddington at a time to be
negotiated.0pm

Satya's garden tip...

Lots of interesting questions surface in 'Garden consultancies' , here's one to share with my answer.

"Will I mulch before planting my fruit trees or plant then mulch."

At this moment you have bare soil.

Always complete weed removal first.

The best option is to plant your fruit trees next.

Then mulch around your trees after planting. Doing it the other way tends to get soil and mulch mixed, with some soil ending up on top of mulch instead of below.

This soil will have some weed seeds in it that germinate partially defeating one of the purposes for mulching - preventing weeds.

However if you are not intending to plant your fruit trees right away - mulch it.

You can very carefully move the mulch back to plant later, placing soil removed from the hole on a material covering the mulch as you plant.

Nature will always cover bare soil with pioneers (weeds and grasses) after the next rain if you haven't already mulched it.

However it is better to have a weed-free mulched orchard-garden minus trees after rain and deal with smaller number of weeds that come up after planting of your trees.

www.organic.gardening.brisbane.com

If you haven't been into Bliss Ecowear for a little while, they have some innovative new stock in and plenty of summer designs and colours for men and women. Just some of the new things:

Blackspot organic hemp/recycled tyres boots and sneakers;
Upcycled satchels made from recycled billboard material;
Kowtow organic tees in yummy summer colours, featuring groovy graphics;
a fun range of fair trade jewellery, bags and toys;
Under the Nile organic baby clothes.

AND, to make room for this new stock, there's a sale table and rack, with discontinued t-shirt designs from My Heart Beats Green and Planet Truth, winter baby clothes from Ecoboo, and a specials on Bird Textile and more.

15 Latrobe Tce

The Green Precinct

Paddington Q 4064

Ph: (07) 3369 2289

www.blissecowear.com.au

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Green Precinct Festive Evening
Thursday 20 November 5:30pm - 8pm

Discover what's green for Christmas. Stroll along Given and Latrobre Terraces, Paddington, dropping in to the Green Precinct businesses.

Enjoy organic wine and nibbles, music, green tips, massage, products and plenty of other eco-treats.

For more details, and how to get to the event using sustainable transport, visit

www.greenprecinct.com.au

Where & When
Starts at Fundies, 219 Given Tce, through Lower Latrobe Tce, up to The Trading Circle at 100 Latrobe Tce, with action on both sides of the street.

Thursday, 20 November
5:30pm - 8:00pm