Issue 12 SJC News 2021

TERM 3 - UPCOMING EVENTS

16-22 August Keep Australia Beautiful Week

16 August "Otways" Garden Revamp

23 August Enviroservice at Edmund Rice Campus (TBC)

31 August Tree Planting with Great Ocean Road Parks and Coast Authority (TBC)

September National Biodiversity month

7 September National Threatened Species Day

20-26 September National Organic Week

22 September World Car-Free Day

OTWAYS GARDEN REVAMP

Over the past week, Sustainability Leaders have conducted maintenance and Clean-Up of the "Otways" Garden bed in the Quadrangle in preparation for "Stage 2" planting to commence on Monday 16 August. In addition to a variety of ferns, Sustainability Leaders will endeavour to create more Kokedamas to enhance the visual impact of the existing hanging planter feature.

INDIGENOUS FOOD SPECIES PLANTERS

VITA students have been vigilant with the upkeep of the Indigenous food species planters in the Paul Tobias Centre courtyard and were "Caught on Camera" this week conducting routine weeding/maintenance of the planters. With recent rain, the plant species have now started to establish well and we have beared witness to the first berries of the Seaberry saltbush (Chenopodium candolleanum).

H BlOCK VERTICAL GARDEN

During Semester One, eight small garden beds were established at the top of the sloping concrete wall at the base of H Block, to trial the success of planting Lotus- Red Flash (Lotus berthelotii) with the intention of it "cascading" down over the wall. As the Lotus seems to be thriving in this location, planning is now underway to continue implementing the garden beds across the remaining sections of the wall during the course of Semester 2.