Central Coast - Meeting & talk: Kariong Eco Garden

Kariong Eco Garden evolved out of meetings held at Phillip House during 2003 and 2004. It was approved by a motion of Gosford Council on 28 June 2005 and officially opened on 28 July 2007.  It began as a project of the Central Coast Community Environment Network (CEN) and became self managing in 2009.

Lisa Wriley will speak about the Garden and share some of the highlights of the journey plus some of the challenges of being a sustainable living learnscape.  She is also very happy to answer questions about the EARTHCARE game, her passion for justice for the First Peoples of Australia, her composting toilet or 'new' second hand electric vehicle (2017 Nissan LEAF).

Lisa loves composting and worms, washable nappies and rainbows!  She has been campaigning on waste issues for the Total Environment  Centre and Boomerang Alliance since 2010. She also works as an  Environmental Educator on the Central Coast of NSW, supporting local  schools with waste reduction. She volunteers with Kariong Eco  Garden, a sustainable living education centre.   Lisa believes we can all be part of the solution by caring for the earth  that is our common home.  She is inspired by the words of The Lorax  'unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to  get better it’s not' (Dr Seuss). Lisa has regenerated a New Zealand made board game called CONSERVATION and renamed it EARTHCARE. At her front door is a sign As you take your next step remember the Aboriginal People who first walked on this land.

Lisa is Co-Leader of the Wellspring Community, inspired by  the IONA Community in Scotland (visited in 2014) and tries to live  an engaged spirituality, or as her fellow Quakers put it, to 'let my  life speak'.  Her favourite native plant might be Backhousia citriodora...or Geraldton wax flowers or Angophora trees.. she can't decide!

All welcome

Meeting starts at 7.00 for 7.30 pm

Home page shows Backhousia citriodora. Photo H Miles.