We have established an eco kulcha hub as a model of creative and sustainable community cooperation at 1 Acacia Street in the Byron Arts and Industrial Estate.
Our love and respect to the Arakwal people and all the Bundjalung people who have called Byron Bay home for time immemorial. Thank you for welcoming us onto your lands. Kulchajam aknowledges and recognises the sovereignty of the first peoples of these beautiful lands,sands and seas.
| Eco Kulcha Hub,Byron Bay :We have established a community eco arts and cultural hub in the heart of the arts and industrial estate in Byron Bay,providing a unique space for arts and cultural exchange,artistic collaboration and practice,the development of urban and industrial permaculture and providing access to cooperative resources including a community kitchen and workshop space,and the base for a producers and consumers cooperative. Our development application for approval of our food processing kitchen and arts studio is currently being considered by Byron Shire Council. | Activities at the EcoKulcha Hub:Art and Cultural Exchange: The centre is intended to provide a space for artistic and cultural exchange,collaboration,knowledge and skills sharing and for the maintenance of traditional knowledges and practices. Within our own community,and reaching out to our neighbouring community,our capacity to deal with the challenges at hand is enhanced if we can learn to work together,learn from one another,share what we have and value the gifts and wisdoms of our ancestors.
Industrial permaculture: Pioneering industrial permaculture,we believe we have the highest biodiversity per m2 of garden in the Byron Arts and Industrial Estate. In one year we turned the weeds dominating our small industrial gardens into a source of food,medicine and delight with over 50 varieties of plants ,including aryvedic,western,Chinese,Thai,South American medicinal plants and food sources. We harvested over 20 pumpkins,30 papayas,hundreds of chillis,and much much more while distributing seeds,cuttings and root stock amongst our friends and members. We are establishing a network amongst other workers in the industrial estate to spread the industrial permaculture revolution to our neighbouring shops,studios and factories. Seed sharing: the other side of seed saving is seed sharing,We provide a space for the free seed and root stock sharing amongst our members. Feel free to send or drop off your surplus seeds to 1 Acacia Street Byron Bay Community Kitchen: supporting small producers get on their feet and preserving and value adding foods in surplus within our community,our members experiment with raw food,dried foods and herbs to produce some special products sold through the cooperative. Our development application is in to enable our members to utilise this area to value add to surplus produce from the region,and produce small scale enterprises based on healthy ethically produced food. Workshop space:we provide a workshop space for a range of arts and cultural practices including visual arts,dance,music,yoga and movement therapy to support our members to develop their practice and share their skills with others. |
