This month's breakfast talk will be led by Certification Officer Daniel Phipps from Australian Certified Organic, Brisbane. He will outline the process of accreditation the farmers are required to meet the Australian and International food certification standards.

Please ring The Upfront Club on 54942592 to book your place.

Contact John Muir for more details about the talk
John Muir [at] beyondorganic.com.au

Dynamic Groups For Transition
9th to 13th August 2009
At ‘CAMP COOROORA’

An Adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A 4 day Training Intensive usually offered for Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Groups Leaders, Change Agents and People in Creative, Healing and Sustainability Industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.

Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.

COST of $380 Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, 4 nights camping fees, notes, resource use, night time sessions on two nights

Phone - 07 5494 4707
Email - robin@earthcare.com.au
http://www.earthcare.com.au/edu

Dynamic Groups For Transition
9th to 13th August 2009
At ‘CAMP COOROORA’

An Adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A 4 day Training Intensive usually offered for Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Groups Leaders, Change Agents and People in Creative, Healing and Sustainability Industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.

Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.

COST of $380 Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, 4 nights camping fees, notes, resource use, night time sessions on two nights

Phone - 07 5494 4707
Email - robin@earthcare.com.au
http://www.earthcare.com.au/edu

Dynamic Groups For Transition
9th to 13th August 2009
At ‘CAMP COOROORA’

An Adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A 4 day Training Intensive usually offered for Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Groups Leaders, Change Agents and People in Creative, Healing and Sustainability Industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.

Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.

COST of $380 Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, 4 nights camping fees, notes, resource use, night time sessions on two nights

Phone - 07 5494 4707
Email - robin@earthcare.com.au
http://www.earthcare.com.au/edu

Laugh, cry, hoot and holler at this very special Maleny event.

Tuesday 11th Aug 6.30pm

at the cosy Finbar’s Irish Bar, Maleny

featuring visiting American political singer David Rovics who is back in Australia by popular demand after his riveting gigs at Woodford earlier this year.

Also performing are locals Tommy Leonard & Jenny Fitzgibbon, and Brisbane's humorous/political singer-satirist Dermot Dorgan.

$7 unwaged and $10 waged.

Dynamic Groups For Transition
9th to 13th August 2009
At ‘CAMP COOROORA’

An Adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A 4 day Training Intensive usually offered for Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Groups Leaders, Change Agents and People in Creative, Healing and Sustainability Industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.

Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.

COST of $380 Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, 4 nights camping fees, notes, resource use, night time sessions on two nights

Phone - 07 5494 4707
Email - robin@earthcare.com.au
http://www.earthcare.com.au/edu

Dynamic Groups For Transition
9th to 13th August 2009
At ‘CAMP COOROORA’

An Adventure in Creative Facilitation, Interactive Learning Methods, Personal Empowerment and Skills Development.
A 4 day Training Intensive usually offered for Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Groups Leaders, Change Agents and People in Creative, Healing and Sustainability Industries who would like more skills, tools and confidence to work and play with groups.

Offered specially for the Transition Towns Movement on this occasion and designed to address some of the HEART aspects from The Transition Handbook.

COST of $380 Includes food for all meals (everyone will share the cooking, food prep and cleanup), cuppas, 4 nights camping fees, notes, resource use, night time sessions on two nights

Phone - 07 5494 4707
Email - robin@earthcare.com.au
http://www.earthcare.com.au/edu

Slow Food Thursday
This Thursday 13th August, 10.30am (and every Thursday)
Hosted by Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland
Maleny Community Centre
Suggested donation $4

This week Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland is chuffed to present "The Future of Food" screening on 13th of August at 10:30am.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today

Sour Dough Workshop
15th August
Cooroy

Permaculturist Elisabeth Fekonia will be hosting a Sourdough Making Workshop on August the 15th at Cooroy. Participants will learn how to make Sourdough bread from scratch, make Sourdough pikelets, Sauerkraut, Korean Kimchi and Fruit and Nut Kimchi and a batch of Wine from Fruit. These lactic ferments are a great boon to inner health and they taste great.

Sourdough starter will be given away at the end of the day and the bread made on the day will be for sale for $4 each. The cost for this workshop is $75 and this will include morning tea, lunch and a manual. The day will be very busy and fun and as usual, there will be plenty of taste testing.

Contact Elisabeth or visit her site for more details.
elisabeth@permacultureproduce.info
www.permacultureproduce.com.au
0754 426089 / 0432 180523

A great deal of energy and thought has been invested in anticipation of climate change on the Sunshine Coast by government, community, industry and research bodies over the last ten years.

Conservation Volunteers Australia and Shell have joined together to organise this forum for key organizations and people across Australia to engage in this process, and in this region they are working with SEQ Catchments to enhance local input.

This forum will present those activities and initiatives already happening, sometimes in isolation. It will provide a shared opportunity for review of where we are going in collectively adapting to the impact of climate change on the coast.

In the morning seminar, presentations from Shell, CVA, Sunshine Coast Regional Council, University of the Sunshine Coast and local Sunshine Coast initiatives will establish the context, explain climate proofing, outline Council’s draft climate change plan and map the local scene.

Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organisation that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland is a new convivium, launched on the 30th of July 2009. We are committed to supporting local producers of food that is good, clean and fair.

There's no movie this week, but there is the amazing Slow Cafe with Sacred Chef Catering from 12noon to 2pm - a divinely inspired lunch using local ingredients. Also available at Slow Thursday: long-ferment, handmade, wood-fired, organic sourdough (Pain de Campagne, Spelt, Olive & Fetta, Fruit & Nut) - orders taken to make sure don't miss out.

It's on! The first permablitz of the season will happen in Maleny on Saturday 5th September. Not sure what a permablitz is? Basically it's a garden working bee that focuses on setting up a food garden bed for the recipient using permaculture principles.

It's a great opportunity to learn more about backyard food production; our local food growing climate; it's fun, social and includes lunch! What more could you want from a free event? Ah...you might break a sweat...so bring hat, sun protective clothing, water bottles and some gardening tools if you have them.

Just email info@sustainablemaleny.org for venue and additional event details.

Sustainable Maleny is hosting this film screening and discussion evening which features the widely acclaimed documentary "The Future of Food".

Come along and get informed about what is really going on behind the scenes with our food production.

Light refreshments available.

More to follow...

Maleny Cooperatives' 30th Anniversary Party
Maleny Community Hall
Friday 18th September
5.30pm (first meet at Maleny Upfront Club then proceed to Hall)

Come and join in on celebrations to commemorate 30 years since the first co-operative was founded in Maleny during the week of 11th to 18th September. Don't miss the Birthday Party on Friday evening. Some excellent entertainment has been laid on for this night including music and comedy. Revellers wandering from the Upfront Club to the Community Hall will be accompanied by the River School Childrens Choir. Neil Bidner will play a couple of characters for a great laugh! Tickets for full dinner including slice of birthday cake are $25.

Local Food Picnic
Saturday 19th September
11am at the Blackall Range Local Growers' Market
Old Witta School
Witta Road
Witta

What kind of a feast can we have using only food grown within 100km? Join in on this playful gastronomic experiment to celebrate foods grown by neighbours and local farmers, or growing wild in the soils of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

The Local Food Picnic will be held at the Blackall Range Growers' Market, Witta Road, Witta, this Saturday morning. Bring some tucker to share, sourced as locally as possible. The market itself is an excellent source of local foods, so feel free to dive in and see what you can find. If you just want to roll up and have a chat, don't fuss too much about what food you've got or haven't got or where it came from; you're most welcome to join the party!

Workshop - 'Food for thought: eating well and sustainably'
Wednesday 23 September
9.00a.m. to 1.00pm
Maleny Neighbourhood Centre
27 Coral Street, Maleny
Ph 5443 6696

Download the flier here (PDF 364KB)

Food for Thought is a half day workshop that will provide some options around eating well to enhance your wellbeing. Areas that will be discussed include;

• Eating sustainably & in an environmentally friendly way
• Places to purchase local food
• Ways to preparing food to maintain its nutritional value
• Foods that are good value nutritiously and cost wise
• Planning a tasty weekly menu that is based around local, sustainable and budget conscious food choices

This is a free workshop that is open anyone who has an interest. Lunch will be provided, so for catering purposes, please phone to book your attendance.