THIS Friday, 12 March, is the second Friday of the month so it’s time for another Friday Social at the Sharing Shed from 6 pm.

BYO drinks, nibbles and food for a shared meal.
(The Pizza Oven will be available if you would like to come over and make sure it is lit earlier in the late afternoon.)

If you have ideas for an after dinner movie, call Tony G to discuss on 8556 6783

Just a reminder about the CDC Meeting will be THIS Tuesday 9 March, 7:30 pm in the Sharing Shed. All Welcome.

Enquiries, comments and ideas to Jacqui G - Phone: 8556 6459 or email

Just confirming the AAEV Therapist Forum THIS Tuesday 9 March (TONIGHT if you are receiving this by email Feed), 7.30pm till 9pm at ‘All About Health’ Clinic, 13 Hakea Walk.
 
Thanks - Leonie H

Bring your knitting or sewing project along to Knitting Group and enjoy some fun company while you work.

THIS Wednesday 10 March, 7:30 pm at Julie’s place, 4 Hakea Walk.

Don’t forget the annual Port Willy Big Swim

THIS Sunday 14 March, 9.45 am for a 10.00 am start at the Port Willunga Jetty

See ATTACHED flyer.

All levels welcome – it’s just for fun There are no rules – do whatever you want - swim, walk, canoe, surf ski, row etc

The aim is to have fun and get together – don’t take it too seriously!
100118 The Big Swim

We’re tentatively planning another Armchair Movies evening on Tuesday next week, 16 March - 7:30 pm at 14 Hakea Walk

We are planning to show two videos to be provided by Byron & Wendy G and Clare D -- one on a maintenance-free worm-farm system for dealing with black-water, grey-water and kitchen garbage combined; and the other on bees.

Tea and coffee provided. BYO nibbles and any other drinks of choice. Gold coin donation to the Village Savings Fund.

Check next Monday’s News Feed for confirmation or changes to this tentative arrangement.

Elizabeth H - 8556 6892

Carobs are a cheap nutritious sustainable and versatile food. (‘Google’ it to read the possibilities).

I have been harvesting the carobs in Clematis orchard and there is a large crop. Feel free to pick them and store them. I will have a bucket with them on our front verandah for anyone to help themselves.

If anyone has any ideas or contacts for processing or marketing them I would be keen to hear from you.

It would be good if someone were doing a similar harvest of the Carob crop in Stage 3 if it is not already being done.

Any excess to Village requirements the Food Forest will take off our hands.

Cheers - Tony Gerlach - 5 Clematis Walk

Has anyone seen Oliver's small bike?

A small black child's bike disappeared from outside the Sales Shed between 10.20 and 10.50 am last Friday.  Malvern Star brand with yellow and red writing & trim.  If anyone has seen it around the village please contact Oliver Ryan on 8557 6046.

Thanks - Maarten R

All the purchases made and left in the current YaccaDoodle exhibition are now available for collecting from 12 Yacca Way. Thank you for leaving them there for us to display. 

Annette & the YaccaDoodles - Ph: 8557 8180

The Yaccadoodle Art Group are intending to enter SALA (South Australian Living Artists) event in August.

We are having a meeting next Monday 15 March, 7.30p.m. at 12 Yacca Way, to plan our entry.

If other artists would like to join us for SALA, they would be very welcome.  However, once we have put in our entry, it would be TOO LATE to join us, as everyone would need to be in the planning stages.

All interested, please either come to the meeting, or if unable to, please contact me by phone on 8557 8180 or email  

Annette & the YaccaDoodles 

At Aldinga Community Centre, Stewart Avenue Aldinga Beach; Phone 8556 5940

A two week course, Wednesdays 24 March and 31March, 11.45am to 2.45pm.
Free ($5 refundable deposit).  Free crèche available.
 
This 6-hour St Johns course covers the first aid needs of children - bleeding, fractures, medical conditions, poisons, head injuries, bites and stings, management of unconscious patient, resuscitation and CPR. See ATTACHED flyer:

Bookings essential for course and crèche.  Phone 8556 5940.
Care for Kids

Interested in upgrading to a bigger eco-property? Lot 652 on Bahloo Glen Road, Mount Compass could see you bushwalking on your own land!

Paradise Found!
With the sun shining and your treetops view you truly are enjoying a location seldom few ever get to experience. This 4-bed, 2 bath hexadome property celebrates approx 30 acres of nature at its best, untouched other than the access roads and sandy trails that run throughout, this is a perfect getaway location. Eco-friendly solar farm and an approx 22,000g rain tank an additional bonus. Perhaps you know someone who likes the eco-idea but would find the Village too tightly crowded? This might be the answer.

See introductory pictures on the ATTACHED flyer, and find more plus all the details at:
http://www.realestate.com.au/ Property No. 106286562
 
Agent: Ray White Real Estate (Christies Beach) 8326 9977; Wes Bloss 0406 410 004
Lot 652 Mt Compass sale

Dear friends,

It’s time to kick start the Black Cockatoo Arthouse program for 2010. The big news is that as of the end of March we will be known as The Black Cockatoo Arthouse Inc. By incorporating we hope to be able to secure more funding grants and donations, and open the space up for more community organised events. Details will be available soon.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Sunday 14 March @ 3pm
AWAKENING MOMENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH MICKAL HO

You are invited to share a conversation with visiting Zen Tattoo Artist, Mickal Ho. Ordained in the Orders of the Theravada in Thailand, Mickal now operates his tattoo shop, Spirit of Tattoos, at the Boat Quay in Singapore. Come join Mickal as he tells insightful, compassionate and often funny stories about Awakening, Art & Life. No booking required, drinks & snacks available. See ATTACHED flyer:

Friday 19 March @ 7.30pm
THREE FEATHERS FILM CLUB 1st MOVIE NIGHT of 2010 presents CINEMA PARADISO

All the very best and we look forward to seeing you all soon!

Sarah, Greg & Ashara
Black Cockatoo Arthouse, 1 Park St, McLaren Vale, Phone: 8323 9294
Awakening Moments

Just a reminder that, owing to an immovable family medical appointment THIS Thursday afternoon 11 March, this Friday’s News Feed may not happen.

So, if you don’t get your usual Feed email on Friday - the problem is NOT at your end.

Elizabeth H - Phone: 8556 6892 or email

Is population growth just a giant ponzi scheme? The basic pitch of those promoting population growth is straightforward in its appeal: "More is better." Joseph Chamie, who has spent a lifelong career as a demographer, including 12 years of service as the director of the United Nations Population Division, finds that more is not necessarily better. Bernie Madoff's recent Ponzi scheme has drifted out of the world’s headlines. However, there is another even more costly and widespread scheme — "Ponzi Demography" — that warrants everybody’s attention. Ponzi demography is essentially a pyramid scheme that attempts to make more money for some by adding on more and more people through population growth. That’s no reason to grow the population! Read more at:
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8321

Greens Petition to stop a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station, NT: The Federal Government has announced that it will repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act. However, this means Muckaty Station - just outside Tenant Creek in the NT - is now the most likely target for the national radioactive waste dump. Traditional Owners of Muckaty Station don’t want a nuclear waste dump on their lands. Help them fight it:
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/make-your-voice-heard-nuclear-waste-dump

New eco-thinking for our capital cities: New thinking for some maybe, but eco-city pioneers such as Richard Register of Ecocity Builders in California have been on about this since the mid 1970s. Another longtime advocate and activist is Paul Downton, architect of Adelaide's Christie Walk, an award winning 'piece of ecocity' in the CBD. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-thinking-for-our-capital-cities.html

Global Footprint Network - electronic newsletter: Plenty of sustainability news and good stuff for reducing household eco-footprint at:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/newsletter/v/issue_22_march_1_2010

Why to people loot in a disaster? Looters and curfews, thousands of troops on their way to severely affected areas, self-defence groups setting up barricades to protect their homes… Chile after the earthquake could be mistaken for being in the throes of a political uprising rather than the aftermath of a natural disaster. But why do people loot? It can be more complex than just hunger. Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8546411.stm

Space probe may have found cosmic dust: Scientists may have identified the first two tiny specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the US space agency's ‘Stardust’ spacecraft. Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550924.stm
[To folks living in a continuously dusty environment such as ours, it sounds quite exotic to be paying $300 million to find two specks of dust!]

[Thanks to John H, Cruxcatalyst and The Greens for the links.]

AAEV Library: Get key from Coralie at 15 Yacca, Anne at 4 Tetragonia, Trevor at 14 Clematis, or Elizabeth at 14 Hakea. Library enquiries to Coralie on 8556 6751
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Our exhibition at 12 Yacca Way will not only be open from Thursday 4 March to Sunday 7 March, but Monday 8 March as well.  This is because Monday 8th is a public holiday. 

Thank you for all the support we have already received, and particularly those who attended our Official Opening on Saturday, and cheered us on. 

Annette & the YaccaDoodles - Phone: 8557 8180

A huge Thank-you to the people who have come forward to be part of a communal rubbish bin roster.

It would be great to have just a few more people - allowing 2 people per shift, and 3 on recycling days - doing the Sunday night and Monday service only once a month, with a few emergency back-up people to cover times when people can’t do their shift.

If you use the communal rubbish bins in the recycling bay, please come forward and offer your support to make this system more do-able for everyone.

I have drafted a roster, and contacts list, which will be emailed out ASAP once all responses are to hand.

Bridget O’D - Ph: 8557 6123 or 0418 892 463 or email

There have been a small number of enquiries about the feral proof fence. An information session is planned for this Saturday on site, to answer any questions people might have.
 
I will be at the farm gate entrance (off the end of Dianella Walk) from 8.30 – 8.50 am this Saturday 6 March and the following Saturday as per the other announcement in the feed.
 
If you can’t make it then please feel free to knock on my door or call me to discuss.
 
Brad N - Phone: 0417 866 424

There has so far been no response to our call for help in researching weed control options and alternatives to glyphosate (message repeated below). If you have an interest in this issue, please consider helping us prepare a background paper to help decision making:

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Currently there are concerns by Villagers about the use of glyphosate as a weed (mainly couch grass) control tool on common land. The Management Committee (MC) has recently instructed the Works group to suspend its use of this tool on common land until a decision can be made by the Community at the General Meeting in March 2010.
 
So the Community can make an informed decision at the GM, the MC would like to commission a person(s) to provide a background paper with the following scope:
 
1. Undertake a literature review on the use, effects and efficacy of glyphosate
 
2. Provide a summary of the control of couch in the Village
 
2. Provide a summary of alternative weed control techniques particularly for couch
 
3. Make recommendations about the use of glyphosate and weed control strategies for the Village common land
 
The scope will also include requesting submissions/comments from Villagers to be included in the research.
 
For more information please contact Brad Nott by phone on 8557 7163 or 0417 866 424 or by email.

The third phase of constructing the feral fence will start on Saturday 13 March from 9am to 1pm.  The consultant Bruce Jackson will be on hand to demonstrate the last part of the construction process so that we can continue ourselves.
 
If you would like to learn about fencing techniques and are thinking about assisting the regular volunteers to complete the fence (approx 1.7 km), then please turn up.
 
Brad N - Phone: 8557 7163 or 0417 866 424 or email

Owing to an immovable family commitment next Thursday afternoon 11 March, the Friday News Feed which is normally picked up from a Thursday afternoon web-posting may not happen.

If you have messages that have to go out before the weekend of March 13 & 14, please try to send them to me for the next News Feed (i.e., by 2 pm next Monday 8 March).

Elizabeth H - Phone: 8556 6892 or email

The next meeting of the Community Development Committee (CDC) will be next Tuesday 9 March, 7:30 pm in the Sharing Shed. All Welcome.

Enquiries, comments and ideas to Jacqui G - Phone: 8556 6459 or email

To GIVE AWAY - FREE - Musical keyboard in good working order.

Call Stef Dispain - Phone: 0407 502 740

Neighbourhood Group (NG) Coordinators will be meeting in the Sharing Shed next Thursday 11 March from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

The meeting will be with Management Committee “facilitators” to discuss the first round of Whole-of-Village Planning, which starts at the NG level.

Enquiries to Brad N - Phone: 8557 7163 or 0417 866 424 or email

Native foods will be featured as part of the Tasting Australia "Feast for the Senses" Elder Park on Saturday and Sunday 1 and 2 May.

Alongside this, there will be a Native food conference on Monday 3 May, Adelaide (National Wine Centre), and a post-conference tour to the East Mt Lofty Ranges on Tuesday 4 May.

For conference details, see: http://www.anfil.org.au/
Tour details:  ask Maarten Ryder - Phone: 8557 6046 or email

Regards - Maarten R

The Friends of the Waite Arboretum Inc. and members of Basketry SA Inc. invite you to an exhibition of contemporary basketry - “Warp on the Wild Side”:

WHEN: Daily through Monday 8 March, 11am to 4pm
WHERE: Urrbrae House, University of Adelaide Waite Campus

See ATTACHED flyer for details.
Warp on the Wild Side

ATTACHED is an article by Community member Stephanie Johnston (Lot 144) on the “Victory to Landscape Values” achieved in protecting the Bowering Hill land to the north of the Village from inappropriate housing development. The article appeared in SA Planner, February 2010, pp 6-7.

SAPlanner p6-7

Would you ever have expected old phones and phone cords to come back as clever innovative artwork? Take a look at the sheep pictured in the ATTACMENT. And where would “sheep art” come from? Why, New Zealand, of course!

Where old phone cords go

[Thanks to Sue W for sending this one in.]

Are you a farmer at heart? Start a ‘Crop Mob’: A growing number of young people are finishing college and resisting the pressure to plunk down in a cube behind a computer. Others skip college altogether—given the spiraling costs involved, it’s hard to blame them—and yearn for meaningful, hands-on work. Community-scale organic farming has emerged as an attractive profession for such talented, energetic youth. Despite problems such as low pay and high land prices, youthful zeal to farm survives. This is a major asset to the sustainable food movement. As current active farmers near retirement age, an emerging generation of keen but landless farmers is rising. One of the main challenges will be to help find them land and create the infrastructure needed to make the new style of farming a viable profession. Read more at:
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51786

Sustainability: The Five Core Principles - A New Framework by Michael Ben-Eli: "If you wish to fly and want to successfully construct an aircraft in order to do so, you need to understand the basic principles of aerodynamics. Similarly, if we are serious about ensuring a sustainable future, we need to be guided by a set of principles which underlie sustainability as an enduring state." Read more at:
http://www.sustainabilitylabs.org/page/sustainability-five-core-principles

Did the discovery of cooking make us human? It seems that learning to cook created 'big brains’. Cooking is something we all take for granted but a new theory suggests that if we had not learned to cook food, not only would we still look like chimps but, like them, we would also be compelled to spend most of the day chewing. Read more and see the video clip at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543906.stm

The cult of omega-3: Hardly a week goes by without a new health claim being made of eating oily fish. But is it really as magical as we are told? If there were a top 40 of good foods, a chart rundown of the right things to eat, then anything containing omega-3 fatty acids would have been number one for years. They even have their own international awareness day, which takes place this Wednesday.But how much of this is hype, and how much reality? Is there a danger that a largely fish-derived fatty acid is being turned into a modern-day magic potion? Read more on the argument at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8543172.stm

[Thanks to Ellie F, Vanda R, and John H for the links.]

Just a reminder that the Fringe Art Exhibition ‘ella-mental’ continues at 16 Yacca Way THIS week, from Thursday 4 March to Sunday 7 March from 10.00am to 5.00pm (see ATTACHED invitation).
100218 Invitation ella-mental

And the Village Arts Group ‘YaccaDoodle’ will also be exhibiting at 12 Yacca Way on the same days from 9am to 4:30pm.

Only 4 more sleeps to go! The beekeeping course at AAEV is starting THIS Weekend, 6 & 7 March.

The first Saturday session will start at 9am in the Sharing Shed.

Please bring your course payment to the first session. ($100 for AAEV lot owners; $135 for others). Note this is the price Rob quoted when we booked last year, not $145 which is the fee for bookings made in 2010). I'll collect money before the session.

If you've confirmed attendance with me, there is no need to contact Rob.

Have you printed your brochure? If not, it is ATTACHED again for convenience.

Also think about carpooling for the 2 Sunday field trips. We'll organise that on Saturday.

Bring your favourite cup. A selection of teas and coffee provided.
 
Chris Worsman - Phone: 0414 900 399
100226 AAEV Beekeeping Brochure

Just a reminder about the DVD we will be showing at the ‘Armchair Movies’ session this week. Anyone with an interest in the future of food and agriculture is invited to come along:

THIS Tuesday 2 March - 7:30 pm at 14 Hakea Walk (Heij’s home)
- The World According to Monsanto

Tea and coffee provided. BYO other drinks of your choice and after-dinner nibbles to share.
Gold coin donation to the Village Savings Fund.

Enquiries to Elizabeth H - 8556 6892

Knitting Group is meeting as usual THIS Wednesday 3 March, from 7:30 pm at Julie’s place, 4 Hakea Walk.

Bring your knitting, crochet, needlework (yes, even the mending) and some fun things to chat about.

What a great reason to pick up all our windblown rubbish this weekend!

2010 marks the 20th Anniversary of Clean Up Australia events - Business Clean Up Day, Schools Clean Up Day, and Clean Up Australia Day.

Every year the Clean Up Australia organisation relies heavily on the dedication and support of volunteers to remove hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish from our environment.  This year, we’re looking forward to seeing about a million people get out and lend a hand for the 20th anniversary of Clean Up Australia events. Make sure you’re one of them by registering your clean up site or volunteering at http://www.cleanup.org.au 
 
Clean Up Australia Day - Sunday, 7 March 2010
Business Clean Up Day - Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Schools Clean Up Day - Friday, 5 March 2010

My parents and sister will be visiting from April 3 to April 6 (Easter Saturday to Tuesday) and again from Monday April 12 to Wednesday April 14.

I am looking for somewhere for them to stay as our place is too small to accommodate them. My parents are quite old so best if the house has no steps and is easy to negotiate.

Happy to pay some rent. Please ring me if you think you might be able to help.

Fiona R - Phone: 0448 735 394 or 8557 6046.

Anyone going to Adelaide on Wednesdays?

I will be going to Urrbrae TAFE every Wednesday and would like to car share. I need to be there from 9am-4pm.

If you can help, please phone Sue E on 8556 6441.

A number of people have asked for the recipe for the delicious (non-alcoholic) punch served at the YaccaDoodle art exhibition last Saturday. Here it is - recipe from Charles Carpenter
 
MOCK CHAMPAGNE PUNCH :
3 litres canned unsweetened pineapple juice
juice of 8 lemons and 3 limes
2 cups sugar
4 litres dry ginger ale
2 litres sparkling soda water
sliced fruit to float in punch eg 1 punnet strawberries
 
Stir ingredients together, pour over a block of ice and serve.
This amount will fill a punch bowl 2 or 3 times.

Sick of waiting for Google Maps to update our photos?  Wait no more!

“Nearmap” - http://Nearmap.com/ - has 3 lots of photos taken 19/10/09, 1/12/09 and 26/12/09.
The definition seems very good and the contrast in three months to some houses and gardens is amazing!

Jane O’Connell

CASSE - Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy: CASSE is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support:
http://steadystate.org/
CASSE is launching (1/3/10) a new blog called “The Daly News.” Each week it will provide a feature essay that challenges the predominant economic paradigm and explores creative solutions to economic and environmental problems. The core authors include Herman Daly (award-winning economist who developed the concept of the steady state economy), Brian Czech (wildlife biologist, ecological economist, and author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train), Brent Blackwelder (former president of Friends of the Earth and founder of American Rivers), and Rob Dietz (environmental scientist and executive director of CASSE). You can access the blog on CASSE’s website (or via RSS feed):
http://steadystate.org/learn/blog/
CASSE also has an entertaining animated short called “Add It Up” that tells the truth about pursuing perpetual economic growth. The animation, produced by film students at the University of Southern California, is available on CASSE’s website and YouTube:
http://steadystate.org/discover/video-audio-and-presentations/ OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qriegoXcbQ
For more information about these resources and other news about the steady state economy, please read the most recent edition of “The Steady Stater” newsletter:
http://steadystate.org/wp-content/uploads/SteadyStater_vol3_iss1.pdf

More on the dumping of poisonous waste in developing countries: While it might be “out of sight, out of mind” when discarded by affluent consumers, dumped toxic e-waste and other industrial wastes are poisoning the environment of poorer developing countries. Read more at:
http://planetark.org/wen/56837
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/420967/
un_warns_india_and_china_over_growing_problem_of_ewaste.html
http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/waste_and_recycling/421522/
how_we_poison_bangladesh_with_toxic_ship_carcasses.html

EU looks to banning “wonky fruit” - AGAIN! Until the so-called “wonky fruit” ban was lifted in July last year, EU rules dictated the shape and size of produce, from apricots to watermelons, effectively banishing from commercial trade all but the most perfect specimens. At the time the ban was lifted, EU Agriculture Commissioner Marianne Fischer Boel declared: "We simply don't need to regulate this sort of thing at EU level. It is far better to leave it to market operators – and in these days of high food prices and general economic difficulties, consumers should be able to choose from the widest range of products possible. It makes no sense to throw perfectly good products away, just because they are the 'wrong' shape." Unfortunately, this was too sensible. Now protectionist policies are threatening to bring back the ban. Read more at:
http://cruxcatalyst.blogspot.com/2010/03/european-parliament-members-want-to.html

[Thanks to Cruxcatalyst for the links.]