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B A C K Y APARTS RD P O L L I N A TDeployment O R S Guide How to implement PHASE 1 of the New Urban in your suburb today! 1
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THANKS FOR PICKING ME UP!
Hi there! Thanks for picking up your new Kit of Parts Deployment manual. Here you will find information about the potential of what Suburban Pollinators can do in your suburb. From a range of different schemes, targeting the Homeowner, to the Local Community, you can select the Kit of Parts most applicable to you. Your manual will run through the parts that make up your kit, from what materials they are made, to what they can produce, highlight possible arrangements of your kit within the specified vacant space and even teach your some easy-to-understand science on how your kit is actually doing its bit to strengthen the state of ecology in your suburb.
Whether you are into horticulture, agriculture or into reducing your own effects on resources, we’re sure that there is something in our manual that will get you excited about being a Suburban Pollinator and we cannot wait to have you on board! Even if you don’t believe that you’re a green thumb, or have the guts to handle compost, we’re hoping that you can still flick through our manual and understand how we can actually live in a symbiotic state with our ecosystems and ecology, doing what we can to ensure their future, while recieving the benefits of their products. And don’t forget, all materials from your Kit of Parts are sourced locally, meaning less reliance on long distance traveling and a guiltfree conscience!
Thanks again, and we hope you enjoy. So go on and get pollinating!
SUBURBAN POLLINATORS
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CONTENTS
Chapter
The Deployment Phase Implementation 1 - Why in stages? - Deployment Over Time - What is Phase 1?
Catalogue 2 Catalogue (Phase 1) - Homeowner, Homegrower - The Park Market Catalogue (Phase 2, Upcoming) - Collection Hubs - Outdoor Courtyards - Website
Schemes 3 Homeowner, Homegrower - Homeowner, Homegrower Schemes - The Farmer - The Nature Enthusiast - The Nutrionist - Homeowner, Homegrower: Kit of Parts The Park Market - Park Market Schemes - The Market - The Park - Educational Facilities - Community Co-Operation - The Park Market: Kit of Parts
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Phase Implementation
- Why the phases? - Deployment Over Time - What is Phase 1?
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WHY THE PHASES?
In order to reach the New Urban model, we must implement phases that work over time and in accordance to our member numbers. The more members that join, the more possibilities there are in seeing exciting new programs weaved into Keysborough! Our first phase focuses on establishing a proper foundation - a relationship between ecology and agriculture, and the notion of creating a viable produce network within the community. As explained in our first booklet, (ref. Vacancy in the Painted Landscape), all our systems rely on a resilient and thriving ecosystem. The stronger it is, the better and abundant produce we create, and the more we have of that, through the actions of generating that produce, the stronger our ecosystems become. However in order to do that, we need to implement some interventions to attract our pollinators and their friends (Phase 1). Once these interventions are thriving enough to work as corridors, encouraging enough native
“the current and widely accepted concept of ‘environmental mnagement’ is an oxymoron, because we can never truly ‘manage’ living systems. Instead, we can
species and pollinators, then, through Council response and budget, we will be able to make more permanent and exciting changes to Keysborough, and move closer to the realisation of the New Urban! Phase 2 reaveals the social and recreational possibilities that can stem out of an ecologically conscious system. Not only can we use ecology to generate produce for us, but we can learn to enjoy it through bike-dominant landscapes that mitigate the effects of heavy transport on the landscape, to outdoor venues in road wedges to be used for production and local meeting hubs. Imagine a suburb no longer used as a place to sleep and eat, but a whole world for you to explore, know your neighbours and plants by name, and see beautiful wild life everywhere you look! In the end, it all comes down to you, the Suburban Pollinator, who has the power to change our suburbs, thus, setting into motion the potential to re-write the current Urbanisation model!
refocus our energies on those human activities that support and provide the context for the self-organising processes in ecosystems.”
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The following series of maps tell a story of transformations to the suburban fabric as Suburban Pollinators deploy Phase 1 through to Phase 2. We begin with a look into the initial Park Market locations and predicted Suburban Pollinator member home locations. It is expected that areas surrounding Park Markets will show a more concentrated supply of members, due to convenience in location and exposure to the benefits of ecologically-driven systems, that are measured through the produce grown and sold at Park Markets. Park Markets are deployed close to main roads to increase this access and exposure, and service a walkable distance of 400m in radius. Within this radius, members are invited to become responsible for their own Park Market, contributing to the ongoing
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maintenance of the Park and the vegetation and Kit of Parts within, as well as volunteering as Market Sellers, or in another way (ref: Chp 3, Park Market, Who Can You Find at the Park Market) to ensure the Park Market’s future. Doing this brings residents closer together, and instills in them a sense of pride for the working landscape they have contributed to and worked on together. Needless to say, the 400m servicing radius is not designed to reject people from beyond this limit, it is merely a measure for the optimal walking distance. Residents who would like to be a Suburban Pollinator but do not live close to a Park Market are also welcome to join. As more neighbours around become members, the likelihood of producing new Park Markets within your area increases tenfold. All it takes a little bit of commitment and time.
Park Market location - a place to sell and buy fresh produce and to socialise and interact with the landscape and your local residents Suburban Pollinator Member
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Over time, as current members produce thriving interactive landscapes and Keysborough sees a transformation of beautiful Ecualyptus trees lining unused green wedges and native colourful birds perching on their front fences, (there’s a lot more, but we’ll let you see for yourself!) it is hoped that other residents will want to join the Suburban Pollinators. Therefore, once in demand, new Park Markets will be formed.
More Park Markets means more servicing areas across Keysborough, and therefore, more residents are connected to fresh, local produce. Park Markets are built in places close to existing Park Markets to decrease the distance between habitats for species and provide continuous corridors for them. The Park Markets will also be determined by the amount of members concentrated within a particular area.
Temporary Land - With new developements such as residential housing, land can be used for productive purposes until building commences. Here, the land is used as a temporary Park Market
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INTO PHASE 2: COLLECTION HUBS & ECO-TRAILS The opening of Phase 2 demonstrates a much more permanent landscape intervention, seeing the activation and widening of median strips along main roads to operate as Collection Hub - a Drop-Off, Pick-Up service - that allows Suburban Pollinators to drop off their produce if they either live too far from a Park Market or do not have the time to visit one. The Pick-Up aspect allows customers to buy pre-packaged fresh food goodie boxes. These boxes are packed with a diverse range of produce sold at the nearest Park Market to last a customer for roughly a week. Customers can be members or non-members.
The Collection Hub services to an extent of 600m, allowing for more connection of close-range services for residents. They Collection Hub will also have room for Beehubs, allowing for a great production of honey and bees for pollination. Logistically, the Collection Hub will be Bike-dominant, with packages and produce being distributed to and from the Park Market. This bike-dominant system also gives opportunity for more emphasis on outdoor recreational tracks, which will form from ecological corridors that run through and beside the Collection Hubs, connecting them together, as well as open spaces.
Drop-Off, Pick-Up deck servicing radius (300m)
Commercial Open Spaces (in this case Haileybury High School Ovals) lending space to work as a Park Market Corridors (Median Strips and Natural corridors) activated due to Walking Trails Drop-Off, Pick-Up deccking services, set within widened median strips every 800m distance from each other.
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soil-nutrient quality levels increasing and stormwater filtering - to say a few - are embedded. From this, however, stems the social aspects that come with transforming your front yards and bringing new programs into existing park spaces.
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This Kit of Parts manual will mainly focus on the elements of Phase 1, in which the aim is to establish the foundations of ecological means, productive means and social means in which residents start to become familiar with each other, rejecting the distinction between private and public, and allowing for a middle ground.
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Catalogue
- An overview of available schemes and relevant stakeholders
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CATALOGUE
The Catalogue is a quick-reference guide to current and upcoming schemes to be implemented into Keysborough. You can refer to them at any time. As we progress through time, the Suburban Pollinators will be updated Kit of Parts Manual to correspond with our newest interventions, so you’re always in the know. The schemes listed display a suite of sub-schemes or aspectes within, and how these schemes can affect private and public boundaries, and what types of new landscapes they can produce.
Once you’ve had a quick read of them, you can flip through the catalgoue straight to your targeted scheme to find out more. Within each scheme, details of each aspect are provided as well as the corresponding Kit of Parts, which you will need to implement your scheme.
Happy reading!
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SCHEMES
SCHEME HOMEOWNER, HOMEGROWER
The Farmer
The Nature Enthusiast
The Nutritionist
Food Production
Grows Native Vegetation
Makes Organic Compost
Grows Native Vegetation
Filters Stormwater
Makes Organic Compost
Makes Organic Compost
Food Waste Collection from neighbours
(Public Open Space) Picnic Decking
(Public Open Space) Open Walk-In Gardens
(Public Open Space) Recreational Lawn
SCHEME The PARK MARKET
The Market
Buy & Sell fresh, local produce Food Storage
(Public Open Space) Social Landscape
The Park
Educational Facilities
Community Co-Operation
Native Vegetation Nursery
Grow food, vegetation & compost
Opening of Backyard Fence Line
Afterschool Workshops
Learn about ecology
Maintenance of Native Species
Pop-Up Cafe & BBQs
Learn to Beekeep
Additional Recreational Space
(Public Open Space) Outdoor Cafe Square and BBQ area
(Private Open Space) Pop-Up Classrooms for Suburban Pollinator Members
(Private Open Space) Native Species Buffer Zone extensions for adjacent Homeowners
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SCHEMES (UPCOMING)
SCHEME COLLECTION HUBS
Collection Decks
Distribution of Food to ordering customers Drop fresh produce off Logistic Components
(Semi-Public Open Space) Drop-Off Spots used for customers picking up or members dropping produce off
Beehubs
Recreational Bike Tracks
Honey Harvest
Used for logistical purposes Bike-Oriented Roads and Attitudes
Dense Planting Buffer Zones Eco-Walking Trails
(Public Open Space) Bike tracks are open to the public, riding through Collection decks further revealing food processes
(Public Open Space) Somewhat defined as a continuous public garden allowing residents to plant and maintain plants beside road networks
Honey Tours
(Public Open Space) Viewing platforms for bees
Eco Corridors and Walking Trails
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- Homeowner, Homegrower Schemes - The Farmer - The Nature Enthusiast - The Nutrionist - Kit of Parts: Homeowner, Homegrower
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The Homeowner Homegrower program targets local homeowners (as well as local community institutions) to get their hands dirty, and get involved with 3 simple schemes for you to choose from. Each scheme has their own ongoing commitment and responsibilities, however range in the amount of time spent, the types of activities and the overall outcome of produce - that you can use or sell at your nearest Park Market - in order to tailor to your lifestyle. Each scheme will be explored through the template of a medium sized plot with a front yard size of roughly 72m2, but can be rearranged and modified to fit your own space. Each scheme will also look at the basic amount of food, compost or plants produced, as well as look in detail as to what your kit of parts is made up of and how
it works in an ecological sense, so you can understand the flow-on effects on the environment through your own simple actions. Once you have found your perfect Scheme, come down to your nearest Park market and let us know what you’re interested in and we’ll set you up with your corresponding kit of parts! Or, if you have any questions about our schemes, regarding further information on how they work, or what modifications your can make to the schemes, don’t be afraid to ask us! We’re so excited for you to become a Suburban Pollinator and can’t wait to have you on the team!
HOMEOWNER, HOMEGROWER KIT OF PARTS:
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When you sign up to be a member, take a quick look around and see if there are any current members near you. Particularly in the case of the Farmer (blue corridor connections) and the Nature Enthusiast, being close to each other is most beneficial, since both of these schemes relies on pollination from native butterflies (grey corridor connections of 50m). DISCONNECTED
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When members (coloured in grey) are situated close to each, stronger corridors for pollinators (and other species such as birds, even frogs and insects) can be formed, and you can be sure that when corridors are strong and closely connected, there won’t be a problem in having your crops pollinated. The distance Farmers and Nature Enthusiasts should be between each other and of the same schemes is 50m to ensure butterflies can reach your crops.
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THE WALKER <400m FROM PARK MARKET Usually seen with their gumboots and a Wheelie Wagon in hand, the Walker is a Suburban Pollinator that transports their produce by foot. If you see them passing by, don’t be afraid to say hello and ask what’s in their basket!
THE RIDER <2km FROM PARK MARKET Riders are fast and sometimes, all you might see is a flash of colour from the produce they’re carrying behind them. Riders are 100% encouraged, as it means less impact on the environment, zero emissions and better still, gas is free! Be on the lookout for Phase 2 and see how we’re catering and designing around our riders!
THE DRIVER >2km FROM PARK MARKET Our Park Markets are set up so that we are close to main roads and public transport, and are easily accessible, however, we can’t always connect to everyone. We encourage driving only when a member is more than 2km away from a Park Market, however in the future, as more members join, we can set up more interventions, meaning closer drop offs and localised pick-ups!
THE PARTICIPATOR Not yet a Suburban Pollinator? That’s okay, you can still come and join in the fun at our Park Markets! If you’re down and purchasing some fresh, local goodies, stay for a bit, have a coffee and have a chat with our current members! We’d love to hear how our systems are beneficial for you!
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One of our key ideas as part of our New Urban is local produce, which means we make reaching Park Markets so accessible that you can almost always get there on foot! When you sign up for one of our Homeowner, Homegrower schemes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also get a lightweight Wheelie Wagon included in your Kit of Parts, which can be pulled by
hand or attached to your bike. Its modular-style also means that if you live a bit too far to walk or ride to a Park Market, you can easily take off the wheels and slide it into your car! Happy transporting!
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Each Wheelie Wagon comes with two modular boxes if you have two different types of produce to move around, or a lot of the same type!
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HOMEGROWER SCHEMES
Backyard While backyards generally have more room than the front yard, in order to ensure quality control across all Pollinators, we require each kit of parts to be deployed in the front yard only, unless there is a clear view to the backyard from the street.
Example of a current residential property of medium size in Keysborough. Types of vacant spaces are identified, along with their measurements.
Front yard Size ~ 72m2 (For the purposes of the following example schemes, we have used the average sizes of front yards)
Nature strip Being an organisation with council involvement, Suburban Pollinators are able to re-write parts of the current laws surrounding nature strips, therefore opening this land to commercial use.
Rain water tanks & sustainable techniques While Suburban Pollinators provides you with a Kit of Parts, it does not mean it works in isolation or cannot be developed onto other energy saving and sustainable techniques. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be scared to combine these techniques together! Your rainwater tank can easily provide your crops with fresh waster!
Current Front Yard Private Front Yard
Ongoing Maintenance of Nature Strips
Changes to your front yard, property lines and nature strips: with nature strips previously being part of your land, but under strict council policy of clean-cut maintenance, Suburban Pollinators have the chance to manipulate their property
Proposed A public front yard, extendable for production, and inhabitable, provided the action is relevant to production of food, compost or native plants.
lines, extending or shortening, to allow for primarily more production space. Fences are removed, allowing access for the public and a social interface situated in the once closed-off, private front lawn. It is now a tool for interaction.
So which pollinator will you become?
SCHEME 1 ‘THE FARMER’ FOOD + PLANTS + COMPOST
SCHEME 2 ‘THE NATURE ENTHUSIAST’ PLANTS + COMPOST
SCHEME 3 ‘THE NUTRIONIST’ COMPOST ONLY
The Farmer is essentially self-sufficient. Their Kit of Parts allows them to grow native vegetation, encouraging the pollination from friendly butterflies and bees, as well as producing compost.
The Nature Enthusiast is responsible for generating a solid and strong foundation - a habitat patch - that will attract pollinating species into the neughbourhood, as well as other species attracted to your pollinating ones.
The Nutrionist turns trash into treasure, or more specifically, turns food waste into nutrient-rich and chemical free fertiliser for the neighbourhood.
However, their main role is to provide YOU with the diverse range of fresh veggies and fruits, which can be purchased at our Park Markets!
The Nature Enthusiast is the engine behind generating strong relationships between specices and increasing the biodiversity of the suburb.
The method of creating quality compost only takes a few seconds, when deciding to throw what food waste into which bin. It does not require strenuous activity either, as our kit of parts makes it easy to transport your compost.
And don’t forget! There are chances to pick and choose from some of the schemes, to make them more applicable to you, for instance, you can choose to grow food produce and native flora, food produce and compost or simply grow native vegetation on its own. However, in some cases, there are restrictions, such as when dealing with food production, a Nature Enthusiast or a minimum number of native vegetation patches must be within distance of your own yard. For detailed requirements, please read on.
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‘THE FARMER’
PRODUCE *METRICS PER 9.3m2 (~2x Planter Boxes per Season)
SALAD 72.9KG
~39.0KG 78 lettuce heads
CABBAGE ~15.3KG 77 broccoli brussel sprouts
31.4KG 157 cabbage
VINE 26.6KG
~12.2KG 717 cucumber 813 zucchini
FLESHY-FRUITED ~ 6.6KG alfalfa
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15.7KG 48 spinach bunches
LEGUME ~ 1.3KG ONION
5 packs of lentils soybean
~ 1.2KG buckwheat
5 watermelon
62 capsicum 95 eggplant 187 tomato
GREENS ~ 7.3KG
celery
8.0KG 1600 beans 17 cans of peas
ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS Agro-Ecology + Increases biodiversity + Diverse and resilient crop varieties + Can use rainwater + Natural fertilisers + Organic pest control
‘THE FARMER’ KIT OF PARTS
46.0KG 686 garlic bulbs 460 onion
PERENNIAL ~ 3.3KG ROOT
asparagus 26 blueberry punnets
46.0KG 184 strawberry punnets
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beetroot turnip
223 carrots potato
*Metrics calculated from Craig England’s ‘Food Matrix’.
Rainwater
Flora Boxes
Harvest rainwater from your roof to use on your crops!
Social Deck Sit back and relax with a neighbour
Public Park Bench walking by as you admire your crops and share secrets on successful planting tips.
In-Ground Planters
Composter
Loading Dock Bring your freshly harvested produce straight to your car. This loading dock also covers a small swale to aid with the drainage in your graden
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Loading Zones and Public Access To increase your production space, the Farmer may opt to relocate their driveway by pushing the nature strip closer to their house, and locating the driveway in front. In doing so, the footpath and nature strip now function as a loading zone to load your car (or Wheelie Wagon for walking or riding) with produce before heading off to a Park Market. The Loading Deck effectively closes off the footpath and encourages residents to roam through your crops, inviting them to taste some produce or admire your skills in growing. You might even add a bbq and picnic deck to relax and sit back with a neighbour. The front yard becomes a place to socialise, and be exposed to local food production
The Farmer is able to grow fresh food, native species to encourage pollination and compost to use for increasing nutrient-quality in their soils, or in the very least, be able to grow fresh food to sell at the Park Market.
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‘THE NATURE ENTHUSIAST’
BIOSWALE *PLANTING LIST Kangaroo Paw
NATIVE TREES PLANTING LIST Anigozanthos species
SMALL TREES 4m - 10m
Fishbone Water-fern Blechnum nudum
Hop Wattle
Acacia stricta
Milky Beauty-Heads Calopcephalus lacteus
Black Sheoke
Allocasuarina littoralis
Tall Sedge
Carex appressa
Silver Banksia
Banksia marginata
Pigface
Carpobrotus modestus
Pink Flowering Gum Eucalyptus leucoxylon
Common Everlasting Chrysocephalum apiculatum
Hill’s Weeping Fig
Digger’s Speedwell
Queensland Brush Box Lophostemon confertus
Derwentie perfoliata
- Dianella species Knobby Club-Rush
Ficinia nodosa
Hollow Rush
Juncus amabilis
Yellow Rush
Juncus flavidus
Cushion Bush
Leucophyta brownii
- Lomandra species Swamp Paperback
Melaleuca ericifolia
Creeping Boobialla
Myoporum parvifolium
Native Iris
Patersonia occidentalis
Matter Pratia
Pratia pedunculata
Tufted Bluebell
Wahlenbergia communis
These plants are suited for conditions where moisture levels fluctuate and the plants may be either inundated or in dry conditions. The majority of these plants require full sunlight to partial shade. If you would like to add to the list, please speak to a head Suburban Pollinator at one of your Park Markets before planting.
Water Gum
ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS Corridor Creation + Attracts butterflies for pollination + Conduit corridor for small fauna + Filters stormwater runoff + Re-introduces outcompeted native species + Increase biodiversity + Provides corridors and links to otherwise isolated patches + Produces beautiful neighbourhood environment + Trees help control microclimate + Increased plantings clean air
Ficus microcarpa
Tristanipsis laurina
‘THE NATURE ENTHUSIAST’ KIT OF PARTS
*Planting list courtesy of Melbourne Water and ‘Native Plants of Greater Dandenong’ provided by the City of Greater Dandenong
Rainwater Tank Work Station
Park Bioswale Filters stormwater runoff from impermeable surfaces, and provides habitat for insects and amphibians, as well as a watering hole for birds
Flora Box
Native Trees Native trees encourage biodiversity. They can also control their microclimate by regulating temperatures, and provide shade on sunny days
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Walk-in Gardens - Public Park Space As a Nature Enthusiast growing beautiful flowers, shrubs and trees, why not modify your front yard to become a public garden, inviting local residents to come in and relax on a bench underneath the shade of a growing Banksia?
Being a Nature Enthusiast requires the care of native flora in order to build the foundations of habitat corridors that will encourage and aid the reintroduction of native fauna that have been outcompeted by invasive species, as well as attract butterflies to help pollinate your plants, and filter stormwater runoff before contanimated water makes its way down our drains. Therefore, the native plants selected in the plants list found on the previous pages are selected specifically for their ability to attract butterflies and tolerate damp conditions for filtering. If you know of any plants that we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t included, that possess the same qualities, let a Surburban Pollinator Staff member know at your nearest Park Market and we can share the good news with the rest of the Pollinators! Since corridors form through continuous patches, setting up your kit of parts first requires a little bit of scoping around, looking for close by Nature Enthusiasts or Farmers.
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‘THE NUTRITIONIST’
HOW (AND WHAT) TO COMPOST The process we will be using to compost is the Hot Composting (Berkeley) method, taking 18 days to produce proper compost as oposed to the Cold-Composting method, taking roughly 6-12 months. Here’s a quick overview of how to compost (you’ll learn the rest at your Park Market workshops!): Day 1. Build Compost Heap. Mixing your browns (carbontype) and greens (nitroge-type) together, alternating between thin layers of each. Add water to the top. Do not turn anymore Day 4. Start turning your heap giving it a full rotation. Day 6 and Day 8. The compost should now be at an ideal temperature of 55-65 degrees. On these two days, turn the heap once. Day 10 to Day 18. Continue to turn the compost heap over every 2nd day. On the 18th day, your compost should be smelling great and appear warm, dark brown in colour. You may also find earthworms! Now you can package it up and bring it to the Park Market to sell! Browns (High in Carbon) - Wood Chips - Shredded Cardboard and Newspaper - Sawdust - Leaves - Fruit Waste - Straw
Greens (High in Nitrogen) - Garden Waste - Weeds - Green Wood - Vegetable Scraps - Hay - Food Waste - Grass Clippings - Horse, Cow, Chicken manure
HANDY HINTS & TIPS
1 Composter = 0.911L compost/18 days
+ If you are looking to make compost on a regular basis, consider looking after your neighbour’s food waste too! You can add a Food Waste Storage Bin to your Kit and help your neighbours get rid of some of their own waste! + Keep your Carbon:Nitrogen Ratio at 25-30:1. This will ensure maximum break down of ingredients. + If the heap is too wet, add some brown ingredients to dry it out
ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS + Higher soil structure quality when used in the garden and increases nutrients + Uses less water (fertile soils have greater moisture retention) + Wards off plant disease and the spread of weeds + Increases Carbon sequestration and reduces the release of carbon dioxide in other wasted food produce.
‘THE NUTRIONIST’ KIT OF PARTS
Work Station under Cover Park bench
Composter
Neighbourhood Compost
Encouraged native species plantings
Outdoor recreational lawn
Expand your social connections by offering to make compost from your neighboursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; food waste in exchange for public space!
+ THE NUTRIONIST
Neighbourhood Composter and Public Space If you have enough Composters, invite your friends and local neighbours to drop their food waste off into Compost Bins (these can be added onto your Nutrionist Kit of Parts). It means more compost to be made by you, less food and green waste in our dumps, higher quality and nutrient-rich soils and in exchange, you can offer your front yard to be transformed into a recreational lawn. If your direct neighbour is also a Nutrionist, you could even remove the fence between the two of you, creating more recreational lawn space, which means more space to play a game of front yard cricket or footy!
The Nutrionist is responsible for great quality soils and therefore crops. They provide the Nature Enthusiast and the Farmer with nutrient-rich compost to fertilise their soils. Unlike the other two schemes, the Nutrionist can set up anywhere, provided they can access a Park Market when their compost is ready to be sold.
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+ KIT OF PARTS:
PLANTER BOX
Use water collected from your rain water tank to be more sustainable!
Otherwise, if you use a garden hose, remember to use waterefficient heads.
Optional: Crops can be placed in ground rather than in modular Planter Box
Butterflies are also great pollinators. Some species include the Small White, Lemon Migrant and the Common Grass Blue. Ref: ‘Flora Box’ in ‘Homeowner, Homegrower: Kit of Parts’
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Tertragonula carbonaria, a stingless pollinating bee from the genera Tetragonula. This group is made up of roughly 10 Australia-native species of Bees.
2.70m Beehives are found within the Park Market. Ref: ‘Beehive’ in ‘Park Market: Kit of Parts’
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Small offsets that allows to change the height of your soil within the Planter Box. This means you can grow herbs one season something with a larger soil base the next season!
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1 Land with poor quality soil
2 Placement of Planter Box with nutrientrich compost
+ USING THE SIEVE - Nutrient filters for the soil below. 3 Nutrient-rich compost filters through permeable base and mixes with poor quality soil
4 Quality in soil increases as it mixes with compost
+ KIT OF PARTS: FLORA BOX
Use water collected from your rain water tank to be more sustainable!
Otherwise, if you use a garden hose, remember to use waterefficient heads.
Optional: Crops can be placed in ground rather than in modular Flora Box 0.80m
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In order to show productivity of pollination, a Nature Enthusiast needs to ensure that their gardens are within the habitat range of another Nature Enthusiast. If you would like to start up a Flora Box and none of your neighbours currently have one, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to have a chat with them. They could be wanting to set one up too, you never know!
+ KIT OF PARTS: BIOSWALE
Spout Used during times of heavy rainfall in which the bioswale cannot filter water as fast. Connected to current drain system. Attraction Native flora surrounding the bioswale attract butterflies and other insects, increasing biodiversity.
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Stormwater Runoff Rain water from the roofs of houses or impermeable surfaces such as concrete and asphalt are diverted into the bioswale. Filtering Stormwater sits in the bioswale while heavy metals are absorbed into the ground. The plants, sand and mulch are effective in stripping thes negative particles.
Planting Schedule Bioswales are most effective with native plants that are tolerant of long periods of dampness or dryness. Below: (Anigozanthos species, Kangaroo Paw) Concrete Stubs Used to slow down water flow upon entering swale SAND 100mm to surface level
SOIL
GRAVEL MULCH 50mm TOP SOIL 150mm Re-enters drainage system
+ KIT OF PARTS: COMPOSTER
Grow flowers You can apply this add-on to your Composter, allowing you to simultaneously grow plants while your make compost. You can also directly use the compost you make to fertiliser the plants growing above!
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2 Placement of Compost Bin with nutrientrich compost
+ USING THE SIEVE - Nutrient filters for the soil below. 3 Nutrient-rich compost filters through permeable base and mixes with poor quality soil
4 Quality in soil increases as it mixes with compost
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The Park Market
- Park Market Schemes - The Market - The Park - Educational Facilities - Community Co-Operation - The Park Market: Kit of Parts
+ THE PARK MARKET
The Park Market is your go-to place for fresh produce, fantastic coffee, sunny Sunday afternoon picnics (or just any picnic in general!), socialising with friends, meeting new people, learning about native species, walking your dog and letting the kids out to play! The Park Market changes the way you see how parks operate. It takes in all the things the Suburban Pollinator is all about - food, plants, learning and socialising - and ties them together to make concentrated hubs all over your Keysborough! Within the Park Market, there are 4 distinct features: 1. The Market - a place where you can sell your own fresh, homegrown produce and buy other fantastic produce, including native species seeds, honey and compost. 2. The Park - when the Market is not in session and food stalls are not set up, the market space is covered in moveable flora boxes containing native species. This modular nursery can be manipulated in arrangement to allow for open space for kids to run and play in. There is also a cafe, seating and bbq facilities available on site and open throughout the week! 3. Educational Facilities - Workshops for potential Suburban Pollinators and current members can visit the Park Market to recieve on-site training on each of the kit of parts. We also offer workshops run by volunteers with the necessary background information on ecological theory, horticulture and monthly Suburban Pollinator catch-ups. It requires a small gold-coin
donation, which goes to on-going maintenance of the Park Markets. 4. Community Co-Operation - We understand that the Park Market does limit recreational space for adjacent homeowners, which is why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re implenting an extended backyard policy! Homeownes whose houses are adjacent to the Park Market are given a 5m length increase to their backyards into the park, with access through your fence. All we ask is that you maintain our 5m buffer-zone policy, in which you must ensure quality on-going care of native trees and plants, to ensure strong habitat corridors for flora and fauna species. (The Park Market is based off a 2500m2 area minimum, and cannot be an existing reserve.) So come on down to your nearest Park Market, buy a coffee, say hello and walk home with some fresh, yummy produce! Market Opening Hours
Park Opening Hours
Hump Day Wednesdays 4pm-8pm Early-Start Saturdays 8am - 3pm *Sleep-In Sundays 10am - until produce is sold
Weekdays 7am-5:30pm Saturday 8am - 3pm Sunday 9am - 3pm
PARK MARKET KIT OF PARTS:
HOMEOWNER KIT OF PARTS
BEEHUB
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Current Park Market locations and their respective 400m radius zones. This measurement is taken as the maximum optimal walking distance from location to location, however does not mean that each Park Market rejects those who live outside of the 400m radius.
Instead, the measurements help members to see their closest Park Market (within walking range) but also determine your best mode of transport, whether it be by car, bike or by foot.
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WHO CAN YOU FIND AT THE PARK MARKET?
BEEKEEPER The Beekeeper looks after bees on-site, harvesting honey for sale at the Park markets. Beekeepers are Suburban Pollinators with background knowledge in Beekeeping and management. They hunt for swarms to collect and look after the well-being of these friendly pollinators. They also hold workshops for those interested in the sweet art of honey harvesting.
BARISTA & CAFE STAFF Your friendly barista and cafe staff are professionally certified in hospitality and barista-skills to serve you the perfect banana bread and coffee in the morning, lunchtime or even on the way home.
EDUCATOR Educators are volunteers who have background experience and stories to tell. Their fields range from Landscape Management to Ecological concepts, Beekeeping, Native Species, how to grow food and compost and how to ensure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re recycling the right products. They even have DIY classes about maintaining and upgrading your Kit of Parts.
HORTICULTURALIST With background experience and a love for all species of plants, you can find Horticulturalists all over Keysborough, maintaing native plants along median strips, planting mature trees in open spaces and nature strips and at the Park Market hosting Native Species Workshops in the nursery after school for children, adults and anyone else in between!
MARKET SELLER Made up of several volunteers within the 400m radius of a Park Market, Market Sellers are given the opportunity to interact with their fellow neighbours and learn about how to handle fresh produce and be exposed to the various types of produce. As a loval volunteer within the 400m radius, residents havethe ability to regulte food prices based on the economy within the radius, and encourage specific types of produce to be grown, increasing diverstiy across Keysborough
VOLUNTEER Anyone can be a volunteer. All we need is you to donate some of your time! You can help set up our Park Markets on days the Market is open, or volunteer to participate in your local Park Market. Remember, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to you to keep the success of the Suburban Pollinators. Indulge in showing your pride for your suburb, and the rest will follow.
+ THE PARK MARKET
BACK FENCE PARK TREES Native Trees while used, are quite sparse in plantings. They are used to provide shade and encourage birds and other species to use as habitat
Parks are usually bounded by property fence lines, and generally by a homeownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard. Despite this adjacency, the Park is inaccessible for the neighborough properties and access between the two is closed off.
PARK TRAIL Generally made of gravel, sand or crushed rock, park trails give access and direction through tohe park but almost limit use of the entire park with most visitors sticking to the trail.
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EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
STORAGE UNITS
Modular Workshops and Classrooms for educational purposes and Suburban Pollinator meetings. Also has a template Kit of Parts to provide on-site training for new Suburban Pollinators
On-Site one to two day storage of food, with a fridge for certain produce. Storage also available for Food Stalls and other Parts on site.
BIKE TRAIL The Park encourages bike riding logistics. If you ride a bike, you can attach your Wheelie Wagon behind to transport either to or from home.
CARPARK Limited car spaces available, to limit vehicle transportation. Carpark is made with a semipermeable surface allowing for on-site water drainage.
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STORE/CAFE The store sells (apart from fresh produce), other organic products such as Honey, harvested on site, native seeds sold to us by Suburban Pollinators and cafe products including coffee and snacks
Outdoor Seating & BBQ Facilities Continuing Bike Trail
Market Space/Nursery
Bioswale Vegetative Buffer Zones
1. THE MARKET 2. THE PARK 3. EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 4. COMMUNITY CO-OPERATION
+ 1. THE MARKET
Storage The Park Markets contain on-site, one to two-day storage shipping containers for your produce, including a walk in fridge for products requiring the management. Access is available to drop off your produce all week for all transportation (walking, riding and driving). Simply leave your produce with a volunteer worker who will weigh your produce and mark your name and the type of produce as reference for when it comes to receiving your profit. Storage for on-site Kit of Parts is available, particularly for Food Stalls on days the market is not open.
The Market and Selling your Produce On days the market is open, the produce you have placed into storage is taken out either that day or the next, and arranged into food stalls based on type of produce, and whether a cooler is needed. Since all produce of the same type are sold regardless of who the produce comes from, a shared and dependent system is impleneted. For example, if you drop-off 72kg of capsicums and your friends drops off 8, you will recieve 90% of the income from the total number of capsicums sold. No profit is collected by the actual Park Market unless through donations, sales from produce harvested on site (ref: Educational Facilities) or from payments for memberships.
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Pop-Up Coffee Shop The Market Shipping Container is divided into two, providing a cosy pop-up coffee shop that operate througout the week, making it a perfect coffee hub for you to grab a hot beverage before making your way to work. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a nice place to relax on a lazy sunday afternoon with a friend. BBQ Facilities and chair and tables are also provided, making it an active hotspot for picnics and family outings! The coffee shop can serve as a local meeting spot for fellow residents in a certain part of Keysborough, encouraging you to get to know your neighbours more
Modular Nursery When the market is not on, it is replaced by a modular nursery, in which, flora boxes can be moved around the dictate the space. The boxes can be pushed to the sides of the market square, allowing for maximum recreational space for children to play in, teenagers to throw a ball or adults to walk through. The flora boxes are out for anyone to look at, look after and enjoy the company of as they sip on a cup of tea from the pop-up shop next door.
The Nursery is an ongoing workshop by the Suburban Pollinators and is run after-school, for kids to come and learn about native species, extending the knowledge and importance of our ecology to the younger generation. Plants grown in the nursery are distributed when mature, around Keysborough, enriching the suburb with biodiversity and native plantings. The plantings are done as a working bee, in which all members should attend.
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+ 3. EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
Educational Workshops When first becoming a Suburban Pollinator member, one must first participate in a 4-week long workshop run at their local Park Market in which they will learn and physically grow their own produce. The Educational facilities include an educational center made out of a shipping container, along with Kit of Part Stations. Stations including planter boxes, flora boxes, composters and even beehubs are kept in stations on site. Every new member must be compotent in all stations, even though they may only be working with one particular station in their scheme. This encourages knowledge and understanding of all the systems involved in creating their produce. There are other workshops that run throughout the year, including Beekeeping, where bees act as very effective pollinators and produce sweet honey sold on site. These educational rooms can also host suburban pollinator meetings, or weekend classes where anyone of any age can come back to top up their knowledge in a certain station.
Nutrionist Station
Education Centre
Nature Enthusiast Station
Farmer Station
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Access to Market Shipping Container
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Extended Property Line Extensions to properties directly adjacent to the Park Market are given the option to expand their backyards, by 5m, to produce a buffer zone for species to travel through, in case traffic in the Park Market becomes disruptive to habitat within. While technically the residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property line is still in the same place, residents (members or not) are given access through their back fence and into the Park Market. Within their 5m x width of their backyard, residents can set up outdoor spaces consisting of paths or picnic decks. However, the resident is required to maintain a thriving buffer zone made up of native flora - trees, shrubs and even flowers. Residents are able to set up their kit of parts within this zone as well, but cannot produce permanent structures, nor structures that one can live in. There is a possibility for residents to also open up their backyards for larger recreational space, or extended gardens for people to wander into and interact with.
Residents Backyard Fence
Buffer Zone Access Gate
Dense Planting
Storage Centre
Bike trail in front of fence
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+ KIT OF PARTS: BEEHUB
Honey produced in one season per hive: ~ 27-90kg of Honey per year
Stingless Australian Bees within the genera Tetragonula. There are approximately 10 species within this genera.
Beehub Wall Walls are used to force bees to fly above head height. They must be used unless the Beehub is placed on higher ground.
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PERMEABLE BEE ENTRANCE BEE CAVITY QUEEN EXCLUDER
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+ KIT OF PARTS: FOOD STALL
0.60m 1.70m
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Thanks for reading through! We hope we’ve inspired you to take action and start turning Keysborough into a beautiful, interactive, productive and thriving suburb. We can’t wait to see you around and we’re so excited to have you on the team. From all of us in Suburban Pollinators, go out and get pollinating!
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