Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] 1 Mount Annan Drive, Mount Annan NSW Marcarthur centre for sustainable living is a non-profit organisation established in 2005. the centre is designed to inform and educate individuals on ways to create a more sustainable home and garden. Our centre is supported through our local councils such as Camden, Cambelltown and Wollondilly Our centre displays several ways of recycling waste water, ways to save electricity, waste management and the effective ways of using solar power TOURS Our centre provides guided tours of the centre which provides you with a detailed understanding of the centre and what we have to offer and ways to keep your home and gardens sustainable. If you wish to do a tour you must book and the costing is $5 per person and a minimum of 10 people WORK SHOPS We have workshops that run almost every month at our centre. Everyone is more then welcome to come along. Although you must book to attended the workshop. Check our website for upcoming workshops FUNCTION ROOMS At our centre we also have 3 function rooms which can be hired out to the public. It is a great place to have your next function with out beautiful natural scenery.

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Celebrate green living - take part in the 2nd Annual Sydney Sustainable Living Festival! http://bit.ly/1zZ8nLD #SSLF http://thndr.it/1zLS83z

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So many babies being born in the wrong place at the centre. last week it was Easter Long-neck Turtles in the potato patch this week it's Striped Marsh Frog tadpoles in the trench dug to fix a broken water pipe. 

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It's not everyday that you go to dig up your potatoes and the start moving, that's what happened at MCSL this week. 8 tiny spuds with legs, heads and cute little eyes came tumbling out of the ground when the volunteers went to harvest the potatoes in the sustainable farm. After a little wash it was found that these cute little guys are baby Eastern Long-neck Turtles. I must say that it never fails, cute baby animals always seems to stop any work going on around here.

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Great articular on our Residential  Windcore Turbine   

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Why should we be making our own juices when we can simply go down to the store and buy them? Well the answer is simple the store brought juices are either watered down or pasteurised which takes away some of the nutritional value. Juicing is also a great way to get the nutrition that we may otherwise be missing out on because we either not eating enough of certain fruit and vegetable or we just don’t like them. We can hide the taste by mixing them we fruit and vegetables that we don’t like. We are also told that we should have a variety of foods from all the colour groups:

·        Red

·        Blue/purple

·        Green

·        White

·        Yellow/orange

This isn’t always possible, but if we make our own juices we can pack more colours into our day.

The best juices with the most nutrition will always come from the produce that you choose, to make quality juice you need to use quality produce. In other words fresh is always best and organic is even better.

There are always some drawbacks to anything good. The one thing I hate about making juice is the food waist. So what do I do with the mush left over from juicing? Well you can always chuck the veggie waist in a soup or casserole, but there is lots more that you can use it for. Want to learn more join the free workshop.

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Fun Day Out

On January 21st 2015 MCSL was host to around 500 children for a fun day out. The children had a ball playing on the 20 activities for the day.

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Controlling Good and Bad insects in your Garden

After spending your time making a no-dig-garden or vegetable patch in your back yard the last thing you want is for your hard work to be eaten by something else. No one wants to come down to see their lettuce nibbled on by bugs. So what do we do? You could go down to the local garden centre or hardware store and by some chemical sprays, but the trouble with this is you don’t just get rid of the bad bugs. These sprays also kill off the good bugs in your garden; the ones that help pollinate or eat the bad bugs. It also means that the vegetables that you have grown to eat are covered in chemicals that you and your family put into your mouths. You could try using a home garlic and chilli spray, but there are other things that you can do that do not involve the use of chemicals. To learn more why not book into our FREE workshop

                   Controlling Good and Bad insects in your Garden

                                       January 31st, 10 am to 12 pm

          Booking is essential on 02 4647 9828 or on [email protected]

                         1 Mount Annan Drive, Mount Annan NSW

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After having close to 500 kids at the centre for a big fun day out, some of the staff had a little fun after they left. If anyone is interested in coming to us for O.O.S.H excursion you can book at http://fundayout.com.au/project/sustainable-living/

We also do childcare and School excursions teaching the children about sustainability in a fun and interactive way. You can book this on 02 4647 9828.

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Macarthur Centre For Sustainable Living

Sustainable education centre showcasing the Macarthur Region and it's community.

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Come into the Centre and visit Lulu the pig and you could win ice-cream and a mini photo shoot. Just go into the information centre and write your name and phone number on the entry form. Good luck :-) Entries close on January 31st 2014

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Free Workshops January to July 2015

Controlling Good and Bad insects in your Garden

Saturday 31st January 10am – 12pm

Garden to Table-Juicing and leftovers from juicing

Saturday 7th February 1pm – 4pm

No dig gardens and mulching

Saturday 14th February 10am – 12pm

Preparing for Autumn vegetable Gardens

Saturday 14th February 1pm - 3pm

Keeping chickens at home

Saturday 28th February 10am - 12pm

Worm farming and composting

Saturday 28th February 1pm – 3pm

Garden to Table – summer salads and stir fries

Saturday 28th February 1pm – 4pm

Simple and easy native gardening

Saturday 14th March 10am – 12pm

Garden to Table- Sushi Making

Saturday 14th March 1pm – 4pm

Green cleaning

Saturday 28th March 10am – 12pm

Creating your own balcony or vertical Herb Garden

Saturday 28th March 1pm – 3pm

Garden to Table – preserving

Saturday 28th March 1pm – 4pm

School holiday workshop – Pots for Tots kids’ vegetable gardens

Tuesday 14th April 10am – 12pm

No dig gardens and mulching

Saturday 16th May 10am – 12pm

Preparing for a Winter Vegetable Garden

Saturday 16th May 1pm – 3pm

Garden to Table Microwave cooking

Saturday 16th May 1pm – 4pm

Feeding Your Family from your back yard

Saturday 13th June 10am – 12pm

Using Herbs and Edible Weeds from your Garden

Saturday 13th June 1pm – 3pm

Garden to Table – slow food cooking

Saturday 13th June 1pm – 4pm

Worm farming and composting

Saturday 11th July 10am – 12pm

Garden to Table – preserving

Saturday 11th July 1pm – 4pm