Our Annual General Meeting is happening on the 10th of September, 2pm at our Community Centre. Everyone welcome, afternoon tea provided. Come along just to hear about what’s happening both at our Community Centre and at our Community Farm, and/or find out how you can be involved, remembering that volunteering means you benefit others, and at the same time inevitably you benefit yourself!

Note two other AGM’s happening are the Permaculture Tasmania AGM on the 14th of September, and the North-West Environment Centre AGM is on the 17th of September.

NEW!  SEEDLINGS AND PLANTS FOR SALE – DONATIONS – Gold Coin unless marked

With Spring fast approaching, Clive and the Community Garden group have been busy bees. They have put together an amazing seedling cart. The cart is made from old, recycled materials, which is great for the environment. The cart will hold the seedlings cultivated in our greenshouse and will soon be displayed at the front of the Live Well Community Centre, offering a fine selection of seedlings and bulbs for everyone to purchase. It’s great to see our wonderful volunteers create such a handy and portable product. We will have Lilium bulbs, kindly donated by Pip at the Flowerdale Farm, our COGs volunteers have propagated Cauliflower, Broccoli, English Spinach, Onions, Chard, Dill and more seedlings hardening off for sale in the coming weeks. These will be for sale every Wednesday from 1pm-3pm (see the Live Well Facebook page for any changes to these times). Gold Coin unless marked, pop your donation into the envelopes provided and then into the LWT letterbox just next to the front door of the Burrow. We will let you know when the cart will be out the front for other available times during the week, keep an eye out for that.

If you would like to join in and learn more about the Live Well Community Gardening Group, pop into the centre in Saunders Street, Wynyard, on Wednesdays: see Kelly and the team and find out how you could join in the fun of being social in the garden.

LWT Community Farm

Whilst Winter is on its way out it is still chilly at the farm, yet the veggies are booming in the hothouse, our paddock garden is moving along slowly and is loving the rain that we have been receiving. Massive thanks to our volunteers that turn up with loads of smiles and enthusiasm. After mitigating the rabbits and possums who ate so so many of our seedlings, we now have growing: broad beans, beetroot, parsnip, garlic, red and brown onions, spring onions, Bok choy, broccoli, cabbages, coriander, lettuces, english spinach, parsley, kale, chard and silver beet. Soon we will trellis peas, sow beans and plant potatoes and brassicas. Our LWT garden centre volunteers have been busy propagating all types of seeds in the centre’s hothouse for planting out in Spring. So good, thank you to all our valued volunteers, without your help and support we would not be where we are now. The produce is shared with the volunteers and donated to the Wynyard ROC Food Hub.

We also hosted the Wynyard High Horticulture Class led by their awesome Teacher Lindi, the team planted sight specific native seedlings grown just down the road at Oldina Nursery. These plants will grow up and around our walking tracks at our farm. LWT received a grant for these plants and some interpretive signs, thanks to NRM Cradle Coast Community Capacity Small Grants. Great job and thank you team!

Happy growing!

LWT Community Centre Garden Group (COGs)

Our team are so busy, painting lattice for an espalier Avocado Tree, painting a new gate for the side of the shed area, propagating seeds by the hundreds, constructing our Mediterranean/Citrus Garden area, and also revamped an old BBQ table into our Donation Sales Trolley. This will help us to fundraise for more projects in our centre Hothouse and Garden areas. Lots of veggies and herbs are growing in our kitchen garden, and as always we have been weeding and doing other maintenance jobs to make our garden look fresh and inviting. Our plate wall is nearly full, amazing work by Clive. We are so grateful for our dedicated volunteers – the best!

Seed Library

We are filling up our Seed Library, gold coin donation for seed packets, we will be open on Wednesdays 1-3pm if you wish to pick up, swap or donate seeds. If you are in Burnie go check out the Burnie Library amazing Seed Library situated in the Burnie Library.

Community initiatives

We have such a lot of (and a growing number) fantastic community initiatives I want to mention two that I have started attending recently, I used to feel guilty about going along to community events where I was just a participant and where it felt more like just doing something for myself rather than directly for others, but both of these two initiatives are about quietly building a movement, about creating ripple effects that can gradually extend into the community to build positive change. I think one initial barrier to people becoming involved in things that will benefit them and benefit the community is we anticipate discomfort such as going to a group where we may not know anyone. But once we decide that is worth confronting possible feelings of discomfort, the rewards can be immense. It is related to Karen’s Rambling Reveries in this newsletter, where she says “through our simplest, most genuine and nearly effortless gestures we uplift one another”. Have a look at the two great links she has included in her article, very inspiring!

The first group community initiative I want to mention is the Gathering of Voices, facilitated by the very talented Allison Davies. See her great website called “Music and the Brain”, she offers neuro affirming consults, trauma informed music making, autism advocacy and education. A Gathering of Voices is held every week on a Tuesday evening, 6.30pm to 7.30pm at the Wynyard Cricket Club, where we use the therapeutic power of using our voice and come together to sing melodic mantras in a song sharing circle.

The second is Annie’s “Uplift Women’s Circle”, and yes it was uplifting! Here’s some thoughts on why womens’ circles are beneficial – and Annie’s session ticked every one of these:

Women’s circles offer a kind of magic that’s hard to replicate elsewhere—equal parts community, healing, and empowerment. Some of the reasons for this are: they create a non-judgmental environment where participants can express emotions, stories, and struggles freely; hearing others’ experiences helps women feel seen and understood, which can be deeply healing; in a world of surface-level interactions, circles foster deep, heart-centered connection; women of all ages come together, offering diverse perspectives and life lessons, through rituals, reflection, and shared wisdom; women gain clarity and confidence in their personal journeys, and circles often encourage introspection and goal-setting, helping women stay aligned with their values.

We also had a lovely morning tea together! The Circles are every fourth Sunday of the month, 10am to noon, at the Live Well Tasmania Centre. See the Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/upliftwomenscircle