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Regional Field Day & Dinner, Adelaide Hills - Chestnuts Australia Inc.
Where: PIRSA Research Centre, Swamp Road, Lenswood, South Australia
When: Sunday 7th February, 2010
Guest Speakers: David Phillpot – Sydney Wholesale Market (Dinner Speaker)
Ray Borschmann – Landcare Sustainable Orchard Practices Project Coordinator (LSP)
Plamen Parasaevob – Organic Fertilizers
John Nieuwenhuis – Irrigation - Landcare Sustainable Practices Project Coordinator (LSP)
John Norton – Organic Farming
Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Farm Walks: Forest Range & Gumeracha (First Walk departing Lenswood, 9:30 am. Please bring hat & sunscreen!)
General Topics: Irrigation, Drought Strategies Discussion
Farm Walk – Feedback Q&A (What’s working and what’s not)
Orchard Comparisons between States
Biological Farming/Varieties/Cool Chain/Post Harvest Practices
Inclusions: Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Teas/Transport
Costs: $30.00 Members
$35.00 Non Members
(Payment can be made on the day by cash or cheque)
Accommodation: Hahndorf & Surrounds
http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/sa/adelaidehills/mountbarker
Contact Phone: 03 5751 1466/0428 521 326 (Tanya Edwards)
08 8389 8452/0427 212 680 (Sam Perna)
RSVP: By Wednesday 3rd February, 2010
Please Note: We are also getting together for a Dinner the night before (Sat 6th) at the Hahndorf Inn, 35 Main Street, Hahndorf at 6:30. Guest Speaker and personality from the Sydney Wholesale Market David Phillpot has agreed to come and address our group. Payment for the Dinner will be made individually to the Hotel. Set menu available or order off the full menu. Please RSVP by the 3rd February if you are planning to attend.
Directions to PIRSA Lenswood Research Centre:
From Adelaide Airport:
Take Sir Donald Bradman Drive into City Centre, where it becomes Grote St.
Travel along Grote St, past Victoria Square and turn right onto Pultney St.
Continue to South Tce where you turn left and follow the road as it veers right which will bring you to Glen Osmond Rd.
Stay on Glen Osmond Rd right up to the foothills, where it becomes the South Eastern Freeway.
Take the Bridgewater exit off the freeway, turn left at the exit T-junction onto Carey Gully Rd. Follow through to another T junction, where you turn right. This brings you to the Carey Gully T-junction where you turn right onto Greenhill Rd.
Follow through, almost into Balhannah, but turn left onto Swamp Rd before you get into Balhannah.
Follow Swamp Rd through towards Lenswood, Research Station is on left before you get to Lenswood township. If you see ‘Fred’s Tank’ on the corner of Stentiford Rd, you’ve gone too far!
From Hahndorf:
Take Junction Rd to Balhannah. At the crossroads in township (next to pub), go straight ahead and turn left onto Greenhill Rd. Go up hill, at top is Swamp Rd on the right.
Follow Swamp Rd through towards Lenswood, Research Station is on left before you get to Lenswood township. If you see ‘Fred’s Tank’ on the corner of Stentiford Rd, you’ve gone too far!
We look forward to seeing you all there!
ALL WELCOME
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