41 Farrell street, Yandina
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Both our Volunteers and our Mutual Obligation Participants are a vital part of our organisation. If your are interested or just curious, please pop in and visit during our open hours to check out what we do. We look forward to welcoming new volunteers, if you come around 10am will will invite you to have morning tea with our current team.
When you are sure about committing, we will organize an induction with necessary paper work.
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Our long, hot, humid and often wet summers can make growing a food garden uncomfortable, challenging and not 
very rewarding at times. With pests like grasshoppers, slugs, snails, and caterpillars seeming to eat more than we do, many gardeners give up on growing food at this time of year. Yet summer is a time of prolific growth and potential abundance!
With good planning, design and careful plant choices, you CAN grow a healthy edible garden from December to March and enjoy a bountiful harvest.
In this workshop, Anne Gibson will be sharing practical strategies and tips to grow a summer food garden including:
How to control microclimates and ways to minimise pests and diseases to create more favourable growing conditions.
Summer food varieties to grow that suit the climate.
Garden tasks for summer to optimise growth and ways to build healthy soil.
Easy crops to grow in pots and seasonal microgreens for quick salad picks, green juices, and stirfries.
How to work with nature for a greater abundance and strategies for dealing with common challenges over summer.
To book click here
This project has been proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s grants program.
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We are now Fully Booked. Join medical herbalist Heidi Merika for a hands-on walk around Yandina Community Gardens as she shares her knowledge of how common wild and cultivated garden plants can be used for a huge array of common ailments.
Heidi has extensive practical experience in using plants as medicine and can share not only what to use them for but most importantly how to do so. We will finish by making a remedy from plants that we have gathered from the garden so you can experience how simple it can be to use your common garden plants as medicine. We are now Fully Booked.
Heidi is an experienced naturopath and medical herbalist with a passion for wild medicinal and nutritional
plants. She has lectured in nutrition at RMIT University (VIC), regularly runs workshops on herbal medicine preparation and has spoken at conferences and seminars. She was involved in the menopause program at The Women’s Hospital (VIC) was a guest speaker at the 2007 College of Lactation Consultants Victoria international conference and has participated in original research into the effects of herbal medicine on breast milk.
From 2012 until 2017 she was a lecturer and clinical supervisor at Endeavour College of Natural Health (Brisbane). In 2018 she founded The Community Herb School to bring Earth-based herbalism and nature re-connection to the general public. She is currently a guest lecturer in Nutrition at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She sees patients from her clinic in Eumundi and from Andrea Bicket Wellness Acupuncture in Twin Waters
This project has been proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s grants program.
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Join our presenters from the ‘Giving Plastic The Flick’ group for a hands-on workshop making your own wax wraps. These workshops are a great place to meet new friends and discover just how easy it is to make re-usable wax wraps in your own home. You will learn about various methods, what materials you need and where to source products. We aim to make 4-5 wraps of varying sizes on the day.
Please bring
Pieces of fine cotton material. Some suggested sizes are: Small ( 12x 12 cm), Medium ( 23 x 23 cm), Large ( 33×33 cm). You may have some at home, or check out Op Shops as they often stock a variety of good material. It must be COTTON, not polycotton. If you are buying from your local fabric supplier, consider 100% cotton Lawn or light sheeting material. You will need to wash and dry your material prior to the workshop. Some material will be available on the day for a donation. We will have templates to cut if you have larger pieces of material. Bring along Pinking Sheers if you have them.
Herbal teas made from our garden will be available.
Places are limited and bookings essential. These workshops are all weather events (rain or shine).
This will be a relaxed fun morning. To book, click here
This project has been proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s grants program.
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In this masterclass, Morag explores 5 simple ways to compost in-situ. Morag’s permaculture design approach is to integrate composting systems throughout the garden. This helps to keep the soil improving constantly and is an easier/lighter way to manage fertility in the garden. Morag explores some of her favourite ways to do this
1. compost ‘tractor’
2. worm tower
3. chop and drop
4. green manures
5. trench and bokashi
With a selection of these systems integrated through your garden, you will notice such a difference in the health and vitality of your food gardens.
Morag’s next masterclass is on 29th October at 8 pm, Brisbane time. The topic this month is “Design for water resilience in your garden”. To book for this masterclass click here.
To book for Morag’s online Permaculture Design & Permaculture Teachers Course click here