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Earth Hour 2011

Saturday 26th March 2011 at 8.30 p.m.

Earth Hour 2011 promises to be an even bigger event than previously. Beeswax Creations will again provide the beeswax candles to light up the night at Perth City Farm Faw Food Fest/Earth Hour Event. The extravaganza event held on Saturday 27th March 2010 was enormously successful with 440 people feasting on delicious gourmet raw organic food provided by Raw Food Exhibitors (picture below shows Kate from Passionate Gourmet)

Raw and Living Foods are foods that contain enzymes as nature intended. In general, the act of heating food over 40 degrees destroys enzymes in food. Living and raw foods also have enormously higher nutrient values than the foods that have been cooked. We are the only species that cooks its food.

The Raw Food Fest was chosen to highlight Earth Hour because no power is used in the preparation of the food. Patrons ate dinner in the light of eighty beeswax candles burning bright to the sound of drumming provided by AKWAABA.

Akwaaba and Dancers

The RawFood Fest/Earth Hour event to be held on 26th March 2011 will be an even bigger occasion. The major upgraded facilities at Perth City Farm will allow many more people to attend the event in comfort.

YORK WEEKEND MARKETS

THE YORK MILL SOON TO LAUNCH INDOOR UNDERCOVER WEEKEND MARKETS

Join us on September 4th and 5th at the opening of the most exciting weekend market experience in York WA. The markets will be located within the east side of the Old York Flour Mill site which was established in 1892. The flour mill was decommissioned in 1966 due to new technology and was disused for much of the last ifive decades.

York is arguably the premier community tourism hub of the Eastern corridor and Avon Valley and is now home to the recently re-branded York Mill Site. The two acre site consists of quality retail shops, “The Mill Art Gallery, “The Mill Cafe & Restaurant “and is soon to be the home of the York Markets. The site is prominently placed at the entrance to the historic township of York, a short 97 km drive from Perth.The rustic 1200 sqm East shed will house the undercover Markets, and have vibrant new life breathed into it. The areas adjoining the Mill will be gently meshed together with the shed, to form an exciting hospitality and retail experience.

In addition to our beeswax products made from Western Australian beeswax, the weekend markets will feature crafts, locally produced foods (and added value local food products such as jams, chutneys etc), work and displays from local Artisans and Artists, collectables and other Western Australian made products. Beeswax Creations will appear at the York Markets on the first weekend of each month.

PERTH CITY FARM
The Garden Oasis in the Concrete Jungle

Beeswax Creations appears regularly at the Organic Growers Market on Saturdays 8.00a.m. to 12.00 noon. We have been delighted to see the major improvements at City Farm including its new Cafe which was opened on 26th June 2010. Turning a vision into a reality took many years to achieve the outcome. The opportunity to build the Cafe presented itself in the form of the Federal Government's DEEWR - Investing in Community Education and Training (ICET) element of the Teaching and Learning Capital fund grant.
The aims of the venture are to increase public knowledge of healthy eating, importance of organic agriculture, to enhance City Farm‘s markets, and to further integrate their educational partnership with Central TAFE.

Eating together is a great community-building and fun activity. City Farm envisaged that the café will be a wonderful meeting place that will help to integrate City Farm with the local community. Good quality food in a great setting at a reasonable cost – what could be better?

The café is one of City Farm‘s ―Enterprise initiatives. Opening days will be Monday to Saturday and on weekdays it will be open from 7.00am till 3.00pm. It will serve breakfast and lunch to commuters and the local community and on Saturdays it will be open during market time. It is also envisaged that the cafe will be utilised for special events and functions (contact info@cityfarmperth.org.au for more information).

A WORLD WITHOUT BEES

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man
would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination,
no more plants, no more animals, no more man”
quote attributed to Albert Einstein

Because we make beeswax candles and regularly attend the Perth City Farm Organic market the future of the honeybee, nature’s master pollinator, is a concern expressed by many visitors to the market. We talk about the industrialisation of pollination and what this means to the humble apis mellifera (Western honeybee); the mysterious cause of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder), and an increase in predators such as the varroa mite. If you wish to pursue reading on this subject can we refer you to an illuminating book called “A World Without Bees” by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum published by Guardian Books - some extracts from the book are summarised below:

If the honeybee disappeared off the face of the earth, how would our weekly food shop change? It would become shorter, very bland and lacking in nutrition. Off would come the honey, fruit (except bananas and pineapples), most vegetables along with protein rich beans, meat and dairy products. Without bees to pollinate crops grown for cattle and pigs, no steak or bacon, cheese, milk and ice cream. Honeybees dramatically increase yields of coffee so this would be in limited supply and very expensive. And only a couple of cooking oils – walnut and olive – would remain. With fewer sources of protein available it would not take long for all fish stocks to be plundered. The list goes on and on. Approximately one-third of the average diet (90 commercial crops) has been pollinated by the honeybee. According to a study by Cornell University this makes honeybee pollination worth more than an estimated US$60 billion a year (2007).

Predators which attack bees include foulbrood, chalkbrood; Nosema apis; Nosema cerana; the tracheal mite Acarapis woodi and the Varroa mite which developed Varroa destructor specifically to attack apis mellifera (to date, our understanding is that Varroa Destructor has not reached Australian shores yet). The honeybee is definitely under siege.

CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) is a catastrophe which appears to replicate enigmas which have occurred since 1869. The disappearance and death of bees the four main characteristics being the disappearance of colonies with plenty of honey stores, the queen still alive, most of the bees usually dieing in the field and most cases occurring in the spring or autumn when the weather is cool. However CCD has wiped out more than a third of all honeybees in the US and possibly millions more across the globe since 2006. This is alarming given our current and increasing world population; the industrialisation of pollination and a possible lack of genetic diversity whereby bees have been selected for high honey yields, colony growth early in the year and gentle behaviour leading possibly to high mortality rates.

In summary therefore:

“A third of all that we eat, and much of what we wear, relies on pollination by honeybees. So if - or when – the world loses its black and yellow workers, the consequences will be dire. What is behind this catastrophe? Could it be viruses, or parasites? Or perhaps modern farming practices such as the widespread use of pesticides? Or is climate change to blame? Is there any possible way of saving honeybees – and, with them, the world as we know it?”

(Benjamin and McCallum, "A World Without Bees", Guardian Books 2007)

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News & Media Earth Hour 2011 Saturday 26th March 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Earth Hour 2011 promises to be an even bigger event than previously. Beeswax Creations will again provide the beeswax candles to light up the night at Perth City Farm Faw Food Fest/Earth Hour Event. The extravaganza event held on Saturday 27th March 2010 was enormously successful with 440 people feasting on delicious gourmet raw organic food provided by Raw Food Exhibitors (picture below shows Kate from Passionate Gourmet) Raw and Living Foods are foods that contain enzymes as nature intended. In general, the act of heating food over 40 degrees destroys enzymes in food. Living and raw foods also have enormously higher nutrient values than the foods that have been cooked. We are the only species that cooks its food. The Raw Food Fest was chosen to highlight Earth Hour because no power is used in the preparation of the food. Patrons ate dinner in the light of eighty beeswax candles burning bright to the sound of drumming provided by AKWAABA. The RawFood Fest/Earth Hour event to be held on 26th March 2011 will be an even bigger occasion. The major upgraded facilities at Perth City Farm will allow many more people to attend the event in comfort. YORK WEEKEND MARKETS THE YORK MILL SOON TO LAUNCH INDOOR UNDERCOVER WEEKEND MARKETS Join us on September 4th and 5th at the opening of the most exciting weekend market experience in York WA. The markets will be located within the east side of the Old York Flour Mill site which was established in 1892. The flour mill was decommissioned in 1966 due to new technology and was disused for much of the last ifive decades. York is arguably the premier community tourism hub of the Eastern corridor and Avon Valley and is now home to the recently re-branded York Mill Site. The two acre site consists of quality retail shops, “The Mill Art Gallery, “The Mill Cafe & Restaurant “and is soon to be the home of the York Markets. The site is prominently placed at the entrance to the historic township of York, a short 97 km drive from Perth.The rustic 1200 sqm East shed will house the undercover Markets, and have vibrant new life breathed into it. The areas adjoining the Mill will be gently meshed together with the shed, to form an exciting hospitality and retail experience. In addition to our beeswax products made from Western Australian beeswax, the weekend markets will feature crafts, locally produced foods (and added value local food products such as jams, chutneys etc), work and displays from local Artisans and Artists, collectables and other Western Australian made products. Beeswax Creations will appear at the York Markets on the first weekend of each month. PERTH CITY FARM The Garden Oasis in the Concrete Jungle Beeswax Creations appears regularly at the Organic Growers Market on Saturdays 8.00a.m. to 12.00 noon. We have been delighted to see the major improvements at City Farm including its new Cafe which was opened on 26th June 2010. Turning a vision into a reality took many years to achieve the outcome. The opportunity to build the Cafe presented itself in the form of the Federal Government's DEEWR - Investing in Community Education and Training (ICET) element of the Teaching and Learning Capital fund grant. The aims of the venture are to increase public knowledge of healthy eating, importance of organic agriculture, to enhance City Farm‘s markets, and to further integrate their educational partnership with Central TAFE. Eating together is a great community-building and fun activity. City Farm envisaged that the café will be a wonderful meeting place that will help to integrate City Farm with the local community. Good quality food in a great setting at a reasonable cost – what could be better? The café is one of City Farm‘s ―Enterprise initiatives. Opening days will be Monday to Saturday and on weekdays it will be open from 7.00am till 3.00pm. It will serve breakfast and lunch to commuters and the local community and on Saturdays it will be open during market time. It is also envisaged that the cafe will be utilised for special events and functions (contact info@cityfarmperth.org.au for more information). A WORLD WITHOUT BEES “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man” quote attributed to Albert Einstein Because we make beeswax candles and regularly attend the Perth City Farm Organic market the future of the honeybee, nature’s master pollinator, is a concern expressed by many visitors to the market. We talk about the industrialisation of pollination and what this means to the humble apis mellifera (Western honeybee); the mysterious cause of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder), and an increase in predators such as the varroa mite. If you wish to pursue reading on this subject can we refer you to an illuminating book called “A World Without Bees” by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum published by Guardian Books - some extracts from the book are summarised below: If the honeybee disappeared off the face of the earth, how would our weekly food shop change? It would become shorter, very bland and lacking in nutrition. Off would come the honey, fruit (except bananas and pineapples), most vegetables along with protein rich beans, meat and dairy products. Without bees to pollinate crops grown for cattle and pigs, no steak or bacon, cheese, milk and ice cream. Honeybees dramatically increase yields of coffee so this would be in limited supply and very expensive. And only a couple of cooking oils – walnut and olive – would remain. With fewer sources of protein available it would not take long for all fish stocks to be plundered. The list goes on and on. Approximately one-third of the average diet (90 commercial crops) has been pollinated by the honeybee. According to a study by Cornell University this makes honeybee pollination worth more than an estimated US$60 billion a year (2007). Predators which attack bees include foulbrood, chalkbrood; Nosema apis; Nosema cerana; the tracheal mite Acarapis woodi and the Varroa mite which developed Varroa destructor specifically to attack apis mellifera (to date, our understanding is that Varroa Destructor has not reached Australian shores yet). The honeybee is definitely under siege. CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) is a catastrophe which appears to replicate enigmas which have occurred since 1869. The disappearance and death of bees the four main characteristics being the disappearance of colonies with plenty of honey stores, the queen still alive, most of the bees usually dieing in the field and most cases occurring in the spring or autumn when the weather is cool. However CCD has wiped out more than a third of all honeybees in the US and possibly millions more across the globe since 2006. This is alarming given our current and increasing world population; the industrialisation of pollination and a possible lack of genetic diversity whereby bees have been selected for high honey yields, colony growth early in the year and gentle behaviour leading possibly to high mortality rates. In summary therefore: “A third of all that we eat, and much of what we wear, relies on pollination by honeybees. So if - or when – the world loses its black and yellow workers, the consequences will be dire. What is behind this catastrophe? Could it be viruses, or parasites? Or perhaps modern farming practices such as the widespread use of pesticides? Or is climate change to blame? Is there any possible way of saving honeybees – and, with them, the world as we know it?” (Benjamin and McCallum, "A World Without Bees", Guardian Books 2007)
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