COOLMob September wrap up:

Sustainable House Day, Sustainability Fair and Solar Oven Bakeoff

Sustainable House Day was extremely well attended with 100-200 people visiting each house to see the range of features including solar PV, permaculture garden, solar air heaters and aquaponics. The first year of the Desert Garden and Sustainability and went very well. Some highlights included the worm farm display, no dig garden demonstration, Mandala making and smoothies from the pedal powered blender. As usual the native plant sale was a huge hit. Can’t wait for next year!

Congratulations to all the entrants in the Solar Oven Bakeoff. All the entries were delicious and we were lucky it didn’t rain! Some interesting things were Hans’ Fresnel lens griller made from an old TV screen and the feral dove stew.

The winners were:
Meredith: Sweet category, Bean Tree café voucher
Steve Sawyer: Savoury category, Afghan Trader’s voucher Hans Pfau: Best homemade oven, Home Timber and Hardware voucher
Delia Naughton and Emma Chessel: Bush Foods category, plants from Olive Pink
Delia Naughton and Emma Chessel: OVERALL WINNERS, subscriptions to ReNew magazine and the Green Spoon Trophy

HUGE THANK YOUS TO:
The Crosses and the Sawyers for opening their houses.
All the bakeoff entrants, judges Stephanie Alexander, Rohan Barwick, Beck Gooderham and Lyndon Hodges, pre-bakeoff workshop organizer Steve Sawyer, all the organizations who donated prizes, and ABC radio for their livecoverage.
Ruth Apelt, Ada Markby and Jan Taylor for helping out at the Bakeoff info stall.

Cheers
Kat Taylor