Christmas in July Sustainable Morning Tea, Wed 20 July 2011

Level 4 Baillieu Library

Why we should win the coffee machine!!

We had fun planning, creating and consuming our sustainable

morning tea, and we’ll do it again for Christmas in December

(we’re also coffee addicts)

Our Morning Tea Menu

• Pumpkin fruit cake, made with home-grown pumpkin, local eggs, Australian dried fruits, organic flour and raw sugar

• Fresh Mildura oranges and mandarins, Park Orchards apples, natural dried fruits and nuts from Red Cliffs in Victoria

• Cheese from the Mornington Peninsula, olives from the Yarra Valley, and fresh pesto with locally made pumpernickel bread

• Fair trade organic coffee, Australian leaf tea, peppermint tea from the Yarra Valley

• Fresh apple and lemon juice from Park Orchards

Our staff prepare to enjoy a sustainable and sustaining morning tea

Preparing the decorations – Joyce making a paper chain from used office paper.

Our home made bon-bons – we always knew those old meeting minutes would come in handy some day!

Recycling old cards for tree decorations

Lorraine assembling the “tree”

Symone setting the table

It’s amazing what you can do with a few sticks, popcorn and string

(Note the lovely fresh garden herbs and holly as added table decorations)

Pouring the organic leaf tea(note the tea cosy too!)

In the spirit of Christmas giving, we collected donations for the Library in Timor-Leste, which

our University Library sponsors

Doing the washing-up! (the old fashioned and sustainable way)

Go on, you know it makes sense to give us that coffee machine – really!