On 22/10/2013 I had Turf Unit with Alan. We went to the Forsyth Barr Stadium to learn more about the turf in the multi-purpose stadium in Dunedin, NZ. At various stages of development it was also known as Dunedin Stadium, Awatea Street Stadium, New Carisbrook, or its non-commercial official name during the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Otago Stadium. It is also known colloquially as 'The Glasshouse' due to its resemblance to a horticultural hot house.
To the west, the stadium's near neighbours include Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago College of Education. The main campus of the University of Otago lies one kilometre to the west.
On 24/10/2013 I had my class on Permaculture with Kim Thomas. We had field trip to The Reshape Resilience Education Centre is a brand new development, situated between the Dunedin suburbs of Concord Corstorphine. The centre's purpose is to provide education and hand-on learning experiences centred around the three core aspects of resilience, growing food, alternative energy and alternative building techniques.
To the west, the stadium's near neighbours include Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago College of Education. The main campus of the University of Otago lies one kilometre to the west.
“Research by many people has created this final concept of a natural grass pitch growing under a permanent roof structure."
- ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) is a transparent polymer, originally developed for the space industry. The air filled two layer ETFE cladding has a light transparency of approximately 90% and has the unique quality of being UV transparent.
- ETFE is lighter than glass ( 1% of the weight) yet incredibly strong – able to bear 400 times its own weight and stretch to 3 times its length – which means it will handle the wind and snow of Dunedin’s cold southern climatic conditions.
“The unique permanent roof is clad in EFTE, a transparent polymer or plastic, which is light, enclosed and translucent, allowing maximum sunlight onto the pitch, so that the grass keeps growing but the fans are protected from the elements and the action goes on whatever the weather. “This roof material allows for 90 per cent of sunlight to still reach the pitch, along with UV light and fresh air.”
We also went around the whole stadium and view various kinds of tools and equipments to lawn the turf. Then before end of section we lawn the entrance of L Block along the chicken coop and added some top soil for even the lawn at side of L Block.
On 24/10/2013 I had my class on Permaculture with Kim Thomas. We had field trip to The Reshape Resilience Education Centre is a brand new development, situated between the Dunedin suburbs of Concord Corstorphine. The centre's purpose is to provide education and hand-on learning experiences centred around the three core aspects of resilience, growing food, alternative energy and alternative building techniques.
Spread across on 7 acres of a north / south running valley, the ReScape Resilience Education Centre will include a series of food forests, market gardens and timber crops and education centre, water catchment and workshop areas. Our aim is to showcase the many different methods of food production, including stacking, guiding also passive water harvesting with swale ponds and dams and much more.
Mr. Jon Foote is a Permaculture Design Consultant that specialises in the regeneration of Urban and Rural landscapes. He is determined to create communities that can feed themselves by designing food systems that will outlast the humans that plant and harvest from them, while also enhancing the eco systems in which they reside.Jon’s diverse background in Design, Business Analysis and Permaculture accumulated over the last decade or so are all pivotal to the work he does now and to his understanding of the environment and the economy, and how they are complementary rather than in competition.Noticing the decline in food security around the world, Jon became passionate about Permaculture in 2006, applying it in his own backyard, as well as for friends and colleagues. In 2012 Jon then completed his Permaculture Design Certificate in Australia, moving back to New Zealand soon after to develop and run his own Permaculture design consultancy business, ReScape.
He has since worked on a number of large Permaculture projects as well as working with different communities to assist in the development of food resilience strategies, including holistic community production analysis, community garden development, as well as urban community group projects such as PermaBlitz.
One of Jon’s biggest challenges is trying to get his son to plant a garden without wanting to dig it up straight afterwards. The day his son’s seedlings actually grow into plants, he will feel he has partially succeeded.
We had no Class on Plant Identification in the afternoon due to Lisa Burton was away. Class adjourned after the field trip to Concord Corstorphine.
On 25/10/2013 in the morning the class on Revegetation with Lisa Burton and went through the Assessment on Revegetate Indigenous Plant Areas. She explained all the thirteen questions and gave us more examples and end of the section we went around the Polytech to view some samples of plants.
In the afternoon I had my class with Kim Thomas on Vermiculture and we have two guest speakers Mr. Robbie Dick and Mdm. Rosanna Dick. Mr. Robbie was explaining about their warm Farm by using powerpoint pictures. Their one hectare block on the outskirts of Cromwell has around 80 million inhabitants, but these "stock" don't need shearing, docking or drenching they breed all year round and there are no vet bills or worries about birthing problems.
Central Wormworx has been recycling waste for almost 11 years and also sends worms around the country for companies wanting to run their own worm farms. Mr. Robbie used a to be a stock truck driver, then a shepherd. It was while working on farms hat he realised how much waste was generated and he and his friend began looking at ways to use it rather than just dump it. Their first idea was farming tiger worms and then selling them to people to use in large-scale worm farms. He bought half a tonne of worms from Global Worms - they cost us $47,000 - and grew them in 10 months.
He sent them all around New Zealand to councils, to companies with big waste problems but unfortunately that only lasted about a year - than all the customers had enough worms of their own, so he thought, where to go now? Their worms needed job and the end product, known as vermicast, was very popular and a great soil conditioner so Central Wormworx went into the waste management business.
After the talk, Mr. Robbie went to Polygrow Nursery and view all our vermicompost individually and advise us on how to sustain the worm, easy care "worker" and never ending supply of waste. The Permaculture class ended at 3.00pm.
He sent them all around New Zealand to councils, to companies with big waste problems but unfortunately that only lasted about a year - than all the customers had enough worms of their own, so he thought, where to go now? Their worms needed job and the end product, known as vermicast, was very popular and a great soil conditioner so Central Wormworx went into the waste management business.
After the talk, Mr. Robbie went to Polygrow Nursery and view all our vermicompost individually and advise us on how to sustain the worm, easy care "worker" and never ending supply of waste. The Permaculture class ended at 3.00pm.
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