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Saturday, 5th December 2020, 9-11:30am, Making Country Wine, Cider and Vinegars

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Making Country Wine, Cider and Vinegar with Philip Richards

In this workshop you will learn general principles so that you can make any wine, as well as following particular recipes as examples.  You will see all the equipment and materials necessary (bottle, closures, locks fermentation vessels and more) and where possible inexpensive alternatives and I will detail sugar use and its measurement. We will also consider cider, ginger beer and more.  If you are currently using expensive cider vinegars, learn a simple method for making these products at home, along with fruit vinegars for preserving or for salad.

In this workshop Phillip will get you ready for making Summer drinks for quaffing.  Phillip’s advice is that Lemon Beer is tops, along with Parsley wine, so get planting now ready for a summer splash, and take advantage of Phillip’s free recipe for Hibiscus Delight, (a Yandina invention), a Turkish Delight rose tasting drink.  Great for summer sundowners, but make now for some winter cheer.

 

HIBISCUS DELIGHT           hibiscus

12-18 (more if you’ve got them) Good size flowers with stamens. Make sure you knock out all the little black beetles inside.

Put in bucket with 2 lemons grated and juiced or just roughly chopped. 1 kg sugar, 2 tbsp of white vinegar and 4.5 L water. Mix, cover, and leave 48 hours.

Bottle (recycle PET bottles), leave 1 month, check for excess gas by pressing the bottle’s shoulder or letting the cap off a little. It is necessary to check and relieve the pressure every couple of days.

Leave for another month. Taste. If too sweet leave another month.

Tickets are $35 for Non members and $25 for Members of Yandina Community Gardens, they are limited in number so please book here to avoid disappointment

 

About the Presenter:

Leaving his job as Headmaster of a boys boarding school in NSW, Phillip Richards took his family to carve out a farm on a 40 ha bush block of regrowth on sandy degraded granite outside Childers. Gaining organic certification (BFA) they sold vegetables through an organic produce agent in Brisbane as well as into the Sydney and Melbourne markets. Cows, pigs, goats all sorts of poultry helped increase the fertility and caused constant mayhem. They have been on the Sunshine Coast for many years and have 1.7 ha along the South Maroochy river and are self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables and have recently begun growing grains (maize, millet & sorghum) for both chook food and for our consumption.

Phillip writes for Grass Roots (in the past for Earth Garden) as well as G magazine, Owner Builder, and lately in PIP Journal (article on coffee) and Australasian Poultry (grains and sprouts for chooks). He was formally the organic editor for suite 101 a now defunct ezine.

Phillip Richards makes country wines, beers and ciders from fruit, vegetables and flowers. He says: I have some guiding principles and that is as far as possible to use what we grow and have in excess or to use cheap alternatives.

 

 

Saturday, 28th November 2020, 9-11:30am, Propagating with Elisabeth Fekonia

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Elisabeth Fekonia

Join me as we discuss Propagation, tour through the gardens, take cuttings observing the seed saving techniques and propagate them with the Yandina Community. We see first hand how our dedicated long term volunteers keep the nursery stocked in edibles, medicinal, herbals, water plants, and all sorts of amazing greens, and seeds!

BYO secateurs, gloves, mug for morning tea please.seedling

Being able to successfully grow and produce your own food will bring many advantages including saving on the family food bill, having fresh organic produce available all year round and having food security. Suitable for students of permaculture and the beginner keen to learn this incredible skill.

http://permacultureproduce.com.au

Class limited to 12 participants. $25/$35 pre booked. Please book here

 

About the presenter

I have been living the self sufficient life for twenty years and I decided it would be good to pass on all those skills that I learned to those in the community that want to do likewise. I am so excited to be having a good long look around visit with Yandina Community Gardens, once again, a place where I have many plant friends. I’m hoping to leave with some lemongrass for my next garden project. I’m bringing copies of my books for sale, in place of a fee, in recognition of these gardens importance in Yandina in these times. If you have cuttings of edible plants, vegies or herbs, please label them and bring them to share.

 

 

 

Saturday, 17 October 2020, 9-11.30am Splitting your Australian Stingless Beehive with Mel Marx

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Yandina Community Gardens is blessed with a lot of plant resources that assist the Australian Stingless bees to thrive in the gardens. Spend a morning with Mel Marx exploring and understanding Australian Stingless bees, knowing when they are ready to split and caring for them after the split. On the day we will be splitting one of the Australian Stingless beehives on the YCG site.
Tickets are limited and sell out fast, please book here
About the presenter:
Mel Marx is an avid Australian Stingless beekeeper and works with Bob Luttrell to rescue and rehome bee colonies from water meter boxes. She lives on a 100-acre property North of Yandina and is currently creating habitat for the bees by planting native plant and tree species on her property. She hopes to get a Native Stingless bee honey industry up and running working with other beekeepers to make this exceptional honey with its incredible medicinal properties available to more people.

Saturday 3 October 2020, 9 – 11am, Composting for Kids

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Get your hands dirty again, as you learn how to build super strong compost that will
enrich your garden, fill it with millions of micro-organisms and ancient minerals, and you
can take some home to get you started.
PLEASE NOTE:
 Parents are welcome to attend, but parent involvement is not necessary as teachers
are qualified and numbers are restricted to cater for this.
 As a hands-on activity, and for maximum learning ability, numbers are capped for
this session so BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL. Please BOOK HERE
About the Presenters:
The Living Classroom Project is an outdoor learning program that has been functioning for over 17 years in schools across NSW and Queensland.  Using experiential, hands- on learning, the programs are tailored to primary and secondary school students, introducing them to the principles and practices of permaculture design, to build and plant organic vegetable gardens, at both home and school.
Living Classroom is different from other gardening progams in that we create seating circles, bed designs, 4 seasons vegetable gardens tied in with water harvesting via swales, food forestry to improve micro-climate of playgrounds, and cafeteria composting – lunch to soil. All teachers have degrees in Education, the Principal is a qualified landscape architect, and 2 of the educators are PDC qualified.
The principles demonstrated in all Living Classroom programs support disaster prevention and crisis management.

Saturday 26 September 2020, 9am – 11am, Kids’ Program – Worm Lasagne and Magic Potion

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Get your hands dirty as you learn how to build a self-feeding vegetable bed called the “Worm Lasagne” that brings minerals, life and vegetables into your garden.

Our Worm Lasagne method is energy efficient, blocks weeds and generates healthy organic produce. Then we will mix up a batch of “Magic Potion” that will enchant your soil with E.L.F energy and paramagnetic powers! Take it home and watch your garden grow!

PLEASE NOTE:

As a hands-on activity, and for maximum learning ability, numbers are capped for this session so BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL.

Parent attendance is welcome, but not mandatory. Ticket price includes take home Magic Potion.

With a restriction on numbers, reserve your child’s place quickly. Book here

About the Presenters

The Living Classroom Project is an outdoor learning program that has been functioning for over 17 years in schools across NSW and Queensland. Using experiential, hands-on learning, the programs are tailored to primary and secondary school students, introducing them to the principles and practices of permaculture design, to build and plant organic vegetable gardens, at both home and school.

Living Classroom is different from other gardening programs in that we create seating circles, bed designs, 4 seasons vegetable gardens tied in with water harvesting via swales, food forestry to improve micro-climate of playgrounds, and cafeteria composting – lunch to soil.

All teachers have degrees in Education, the Principal is a qualified landscape architect, and 2 of the educators are PDC qualified.

The principles demonstrated in all Living Classroom programs support disaster prevention and crisis management.

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Permaculture People

Elizabeth Fekonia - Permaculture Real Food
Anne Gibson - The Micro Gardener
Morag Gamble - Our Permaculture Life
Dee Humphreys - Eatin Garden Edible Garden Tours

Acknowledgement of country

Yandina Community Gardens acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Owners of the land, the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people, past and present and emerging. We recognise and wish to learn from their spiritual and cultural connection to the land.