Composting: Giving back to the earth

Human Library Event

Age Group 12 and above

Thursday, 5 December 2019

11:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

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$10 per person

Link to the event

Borrow your favourite book!

Pearl Cove library is hosting a human library event of Composting & Growing!

Human Library® is a library of people who host events where readers can borrow human beings.  Borrowers can have conversations with the Books. It is a community-based organisation run by volunteers.

At this event, human Books or composting gurus will be available for borrowing. You will have the opportunity to borrow them and find out all about Composting & Growing. Come and find out: Can we do community composting? Can we use all our green waste to make compost and grow vegetable, flowers and fruits? Can we make our Pearl Cove community sustainable?

Clarence Slockee

Clarence Slockee is the Education officer at the Sydney Botanic Gardens, where his work involves promoting aboriginal culture and bush tucker. He is from Bundjalung nation from north coast NSW. Growing up in the lush Tweed Valley with a long family history of bushmen, farmers and fishermen, Clarence has combined his love of teaching, culture, music, dance and the bush with his roles at the Sydney Botanic Gardens and on Gardening Australia.

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is is an Australian landscape architect, television presenter, and an Ambassador of ICAW. He has an all-consuming passion for plants and people - he knows how to bring out the best in both and takes great pleasure in bringing them together. He believes in embracing and celebrating Mother Nature’s cycles and seasons and nurturing her balance, beauty and bounty organically. Costa works with schools, TAFEs, universities, industry and community groups to spread the message of creating a permanent self-sustaining culture.

Lachlan Jobbins - President of the Camdenville Paddock Community Garden. He is one of the parents at the Camdenville Public School. He and another sustainably-minded parent Georgina Eldershaw started food scrap Friday at Camdenville Public School. The first day of Food Scrap Friday began on 21 October 2016 with 7 kgs of food scraps, and two years later in December 2018 - they collected a grand total of 9186 kgs. Food Scrap Friday is going strong, making waves in the community and even catching the interest of the Gardening Australia TV show and magazine.

Luke Gregory - GM and Designer at Urban Composter, Sydney, Australia. He designed the Urban Composter while studying Industrial design at University. He is passionate about environment and wanted an easy way to stop food scraps going into landfill.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 5 December 2019
Time: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Venue: Pearl Cove Library courtyard
Cost: $10 per person (includes healthy refreshments)
Age Group: 12 years or over
How to reach there: View map
Note: Bike parking space available
Only 3 minute walk from Pearl Cove station.

Registration

On-line:  click on the Link to the event
Phone: 0888888888 (Abha Sinha)
At Library: reception desk

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To find out more about composting visit these websites
Community Composting (City Of Sydney)
Give your waste a second chance!

Abha Sinha