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Community Garden Conference, University of Canberra, 7-8 October 2010
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Program

Thursday 7 October 2010

Time	Session
8.30-9.00am	Registration
9.00-9.15am	Welcome to Country
9.15-10.30am	Keynote Speakers: Gardening in the Community	Costa Georgiadis Myles Bremner Andre Leu
10.30-11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am-12.20pm	Engaging with the Land(scape)	Lucy Sharman, The future of urban community gardens: issues, barriers and solutions for councils and community Andrew MacKenzie & Karen Warnes, Community gardens where? An investigation into the socio-spacial role of community gardens in the suburban landscape Russ Grayson, The evolution of community gardening in Sydney Beth Mitchell & Bethaney Turner, University of Canberra's community garden
12.20-1.00pm	Lunch
1.00-2.00pm	Food Sustainability and Security	Ashlea Joy Hunter & Ruth Beilin, 'Growing' local indicators: exposing the ecological and social values in community gardens Claire Nettle, Australian community gardens as food security initiatives Bethaney Turner, Embodied sustainability in community gardens
2.00-2.15pm	Afternoon tea
2.15-3.40pm	Workshop: What does it take to grow successful community gardens?	Interactive forum presenters: Anne Goodall Jennifer Alden Hannah Maloney Claire Nettle Russ Grayson
3.40-5.00pm	Local Food: Equity and Access	Mary Enkababain, Reclaiming public space to produce 'green hubs' of fresh food and build social connectnedness with pride Anna Evers, Food choices and local food access among Perth's community gardeners Gary Cachia, Benjamin Chahola, Rosemary Meale & Daniel Zu, Haven Australia David Pearson & Kai Hodgkin, The role of community gardens in urban agriculture
Dinner	Keynote	Myles Bremner

Friday 8 October 2010

Time	Session
9.00-10.00am	Keynote Speakers: Social Planning and Community Gardens	Senator Christine Milne Neil Savery Keith Colls
10.00-10.20am	Morning Tea
10.20-11.40am	Holistic Gardening: Healthy gardens, healthy people	Paula Winen, Community gardening in North Adelaide: an holistic approach Elspeth Brock, Therapeutic horticulture: Ilma Lever Gardens case study Joanna Henryks, Reaping more from what you sow: Unexpected benefits in school kitchen garden volunteering Anne Hill (Chair), Chris Stanilewicz (school parent & gardener) & George Main (school parent & gardener), It's more than a garden: reflecting on the development of Majura Primary Kitchen Garden
11.40am-1.00pm	Panel: Growing the community of community gardens: research contributions	Jenny Cameron Craig Manhood Jamie Pomfrett
1.00-1.40pm	Lunch
1.40-2.40pm	Food Communities	Kathleen van der Weeden, Case study of Frankston City Community Garden Abbie Lawrence, Nurturing strengths: growing our local community Peter Norton, Reflections of an untrained, underqualified, unpaid enthusiast: a grass-roots community garden 10 years down the track
2.40-3.00pm	Afternoon Tea
3.00-4.00pm	LDA Workshop	Community gardens and greenfields estates: help us plan(t) a garden in the new suburb of Coombs, Molongo
4.00-5.00pm	Food and Waste	Leigh Davison, The community garden as an organ of the closed cycle neighbourhood metabolism: options for the sub-tropics Part 1 Part 2 Phil Harris, Contrasting the use of waste in urban agriculture between developing and developed countries Chris Firth & David Pearson, Analysing the 'community' aspects of community gardens in the UK
5.00pm	Conference Close	Closing presentation - Myles Bremner