Bug Box party, Footscray Makers Lab, West Footscray
Bug Boxes are very clever self-watering, modular raised garden beds that uses wick technology to water plants from the bottom up.
Bug Boxes are built by a team of former refugee and Australian-born carpenters at the Footscray Maker Lab in West Footscray.
They are being created, using 100% recycled materials, under the auspices of BEAUT – Burmese Enterprise Association for Urban Trading.
As it says on the BEAUT website: “When you buy a Bug Box, you give an ex-refugee tradie a job.”
They are priced from $49 to $119, with delivery with seedlings to suburbs in the west costing $10.
To arrange a Bug Box purchase, visit the BEAUT Facebook store – but be warned: the Facebook store doesn’t load on mobile devices so you will need to order from a laptop or desktop.
Bennie and I felt very honoured indeed to be invited to the Bug Box party at Fooscray Makers Lab – but we did wonder how many, if any, people we would know there.
We need not have worried in that regard.
Among the cheerful throng were …
… Mia from West Welcome Wagon – you can read about the forthcoming WWW/CTS Greek feast fundraiser at Santorini here.
There are still tickets available but they WILL sell out.
Mia is the one with the very surprised look on her face.
On the right is Liana, one of the wonderful brains behind Footscray bar Littlefoot.
Consider The Sauce has taken its time about getting around to visiting Littlefoot but as it happens we had visited for dessert post-Pandu’s just a few nights before.
So I was happy to tell Liana that I consider Littlefoot’s “injera and hazelnut chocolate pinwheels with creamy coconut dipping sauce” a work of intense genius.
Frankly: We can’t wait to return to try out the entire menu.
Stay tuned!
Liana and her family were just some of the friends I’d made during the Dancing Dog building campaign who were in attendance at the Bug Box shindig.
Some of the teenagers attending were only too happy to display their social deftness.
Crowning the happy gathering was a really fine spread of Burmese tucker.
The lighting situation was challenging to say the least – suffice it to say the food was delicious, even if the photographs fail to convey that fact very well!
consider the sauce 