Friday 4th November saw festival host Costa Georgiadis, staff from the CHCC Sustainability Department and Coffs Harbour City Libraries visit Boambee Public, William Bayldon Primary, Upper Orara Public and Casuarina Steiner Schools to create a legacy for the families, faculty and students that will continue to live on in their gardens and hearts.
All of the schools visited enjoyed an engaging introduction from Costa which included the health benefits of tending and producing their own food, companion planting, crop rotation, natural pest control, and the importance of buying and sourcing local food.
Dani McClymont from Coffs Harbour City Libraries gave a brief introduction to the Rigby House Solar Project and measures that have been undertaken by the CHCC to curb their energy usage within the building, before inviting the schools personally into the library for a specially prepared powerpoint presentation and tour of the libraries e-resources and Sustainable Living collection.
After all the formal introductions it was down and dirty, where Costa lead a selected Sustainability leadership group or the whole School in the construction of a No Dig Garden with materials sourced or donated by Coffs Harbour Produce and Searle’s.
In the media: High five for sustainable living
A garden is born
