This month we’ve found lots of Easter surprises for kids to create. 
We’ll have painting adventures & wonderful things to make from nature. Weather permitting we’ll be doing a Nature based Easter Hunt in the gardens with lots of surprises.
Suitable for ages 5 and above and all children to be accompanied by an adult.
Gayle & Sharni our wonderful volunteers will be running the Easter surprises & Painting adventures for Kids
Come along and watch, learn and participate as Elisabeth Fekonia prepares and cooks a fully fermented pizza. The pizza will be made by volunteers from the group to make a sourdough pizza base, fermented toppings and of course the Mozzarella cheese! Taste testing of the baked pizzas will be available at the end of the session.
A limited number of take-home recipe sheets, showing recipes for the fermented dough, tomato paste, bean pate, mozzarella and any other ingredients added at the time, will be available for sale on the day for an additional cost of $5 [cash please], or can be purchased and downloaded from the Yandina Community Gardens website for the same price of $5, after the workshop.
About the Presenter:
It all began 26 years ago when Elisabeth and her late husband Frank decided to become food self sufficient from their 6 acre farm at Black Mountain. After a steady diet of pumpkins and chokos, Elisabeth knew there needed to be more diversity in their diet if they were to remain healthy. Many trips to the library taught how to ferment food such as cheese, sourdough, wine, kimchi, miso and many other fermented foods. Consequently these many fermented foods were grouped into short workshops to teach others how to create their own ferments and this has resulted in a business 15 years ago. Elisabeth travels all over Queensland and beyond to teach these fermenting classes and she has just had an inspiration to make pizzas from fermented foods- with home mozzarella of course!
It’s as easy as Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Join Sandie Johnston from Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program to explore how we can start rethinking waste. Find out just what can go in your recycling bin and discover why Resource Recovery Centres are much more than landfills.
About the presenter:
Sandie Johnston is the coordinator for the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program. After more than 15 years of educating and inspiring the Sunshine Coast community, she’s happy to say that her workshops are much more than just ‘Talking Rubbish’.
People have grown vegetables for thousands of years, but how did they do so before the age of irrigation on tap and mulch/manure by the truck load? More recently the process has become even more input intensive with the proliferation of greenhouses, hydroponics, sprays and plastic everywhere.
Cultivation systems exist on a spectrum from intensive (that use many inputs sourced from far away) through to extensive (that use less inputs but rely on more time and space). This workshop explores the rediscovery of these zero input systems for growing autumn vegetables in the sunshine coast hinterland environment that rely on natural rainfall, on farm fertility inputs, hand tools and extensive crop trialing and breeding to find plants suitable for zero input agriculture.
About the Presenter:
I am a lifelong plant nerd that has grown just about everything I could get my hands on from a very young age. As a child I took over my mother’s flower garden just as drought and water restrictions became a fact of life. I decided to stop all irrigati
on and only grow species that thrived on natural rainfall. That work was featured on Gardening Australia.
After a career as an academic and science teacher I retired early to a slice of ex-dairy farm in the Sunshine Coast hinterland with a new focus on sustainable agricultural systems. Here I am working steadily to trial, select and breed new plants with a particular focus on hardy staple crops that can supply essential calories. I am also working on integrating food producing trees with my beloved geese and goats.
Join Robyn 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.
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