Don’t forget 17th June 2-5 pm at the Meetin g house. The last session of the series, so come along with suggestions for the next six sessions….
Author: tingrith
I am retired from The University of Western Australia where I taught in Philosophy of Education 1976-2005. I now live in a magnificent 118 acre farm (50 acres of which are natural bush, with jarrah and marri stands) 21kms from Margaret River, and I raise poultry, grow stone fruit trees, figs, citrus trees and make my own olive oil. I have built a meeting house for different people to meet together on the edge of a 30metre diametre lavender maze
Transition moving forward
Tonight seventeen enthusiastic people set about planing to get Transition MR moving forward in Margaret River. We decided to show In Transition 2.0 in the District Club on June 20th, International Transition Day to be immediately followed by questions and answers, and in about two weeks’ time hold an open session at Tingrith where individuals choose their own topic and form subgroups to discuss matters they are interested in.
What’s New?
May 20th
Of course you never get entirely rid of kikuyu, but the netted vegie garden is looking remarkably free of it, and I am covered with scratches from trying to remove it from around the loganberry hedge. But good discoveries underneath the jungle of weeds – some ripe raspberries that think spring has come early, four asparagus crowns which look VERY dormant, if not dead, and a blueberry bush sprouting when I’d given it up for dead three years ago. Also burgeoning rhubarb and chokos creeping as fast as the kikuyu roots. Still being imaginative in finding different ways to cook chokos, but it’s getting very difficult to give them away. They are growing exponentially. The feijoa are also bountiful… and the weather is crisp, still and fine, with wonderful starry clear skies at night. The chooks are very happy to be let loose outside their run and then put themselves to bed quite happily when the sun goes down. And I think I still need another trailer load of cow manure from Seminis!
2012 revival
Well another year and I still haven’t mastered WordPress for PayPal and calendar. But now with the failure of iWeb I shall try to use this page more regularly to keep friends and family informed. We are now into a wonderful new series of seminars on “What is Art?” and 18 people spent yesterday discussing Ideal forms in Art, whether Beauty was a dated concept, and whether Art was a marker of Civilisation, as Kenneth Clark claimed, or an agent of cultural change. Sustain MR now called TRANSITION MARGARET RIVER meets at Tingrith on the 4th Tuesday of every month both for films, a meeting and a communal meal. And the farm is burgeoning with figs and passionfruit at the moment though we’ve had good crops of peaches and plums.