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Saturday, 20 February 2021, 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.
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, 14 December 2019, 9-11am, The Magic of Swales with Danial Lawton

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Optimal harvesting and retaining of water is a key element of Permaculture
design. Danial will explain how water can be effectively managed through design
of swales and level sill spillways.

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About the presenter:

Danial Lawton permaculture consultant, a second-generation permaculturalist in his work as a permaculture consultant, educator, entrepreneur and permaculture philanthropist.
Set in motion with a permaculture design course at the tender age of thirteen in Tena, Ecuador, Danial followed up with a Permaculture Diploma in site development, site design, and research.
At university Danial crammed in a Bachelor of Environmental science with double majors in ecology; conservation biology and Land; water management, a Masters in Environmental management and most recently a Masters in Environmental engineering.
With 20 years experience in the Permaculture field, Danial has worked for international permaculture projects in Central and South America, as water systems manager for Tagari farm (PRI Australia) and later as farm manager for
Zaytuna farm (PRI Australia).

Within this time Danial has taught and facilitated a variety of Permaculture design and hands on courses through Griffith University, PRI Australia, Northey Street City Farm, Noosa Forest Retreat and many others.

Danial Lawton permaculture consultant draws on environmental science and permaculture principles to design sustainable systems worldwide and for local Australian clients and government organisations.

Saturday, 16th November 2019, 9am to 12noon, Christmas Craft Decorations using everyday materials with Gayle Richens

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Gayle will share with you how to create Christmas Decorations from magazines, toilet roll cardboard and many other household items. We will create wreaths with different shapes other than circles. Hanging decorations to use instead of balloons that create so much damage to our environment & wildlife.

What to bring: magazines/brochures with thicker paper (eg Salt Magazine), scissors, long nose pliers, tweezers, craft glue, paint brush, pencil, hot glue gun & glue, wire coat hangers for wreath, cardboard for wreath base, thick brown paper, clean used paper coffee cups, any thicker paper 200gsm, used books, wrappers,

Adults & older children

 

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Saturday, 7 March 2020 9:00-11:00am, Kids Activities – Adventures with Painting

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Kids Activities

This month we are offering Adventures with painting using unusual objects.

Suitable for all age groups but over 4’s will enjoy it the most.

Creating sculptures with Nature & our imagination

All Children to be accompanied by an adult

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The Kids workshops will be hosted by our beautiful volunteers Gayle & Kelli

 

All children to be accompanied by an adult

Saturday, 30 November 2019, 9-11am, Care for your Animals during the Summer Heat with Dr Renee O’Duhring

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Over the past 100 years, heatwaves have killed more Australians than any other natural hazard.  According to BOM, January 2019 was Australia’s hottest ever month on record.
With extreme heat comes the potential for many extreme events – bush fires blazing out of control as the Peregian-Coolum area experienced this year, heat stress, and heat stroke affecting particularly the young and old.
Whilst we can escape to the air conditioner or strip off to cool down, some animals can’t even access shade, or water, and have inefficient means of cooling themselves.  This leaves our animals and wildlife at even greater risk of weather-dependent events.
So whilst we lobby government to enact some meaningful global change in the battle against rising temperatures, what can we do to protect our animals?
In this talk, Dr Renee from The Natural Vets will share:
– how to identify heat stress in an animal
– how to treat heat stress using conventional and holistic methods
– what you can do to prevent heat stress in domestic pets, captive pets such as birds and reptiles, and wildlife.
Presenter’s Biography:
Dr Renee didn’t always know she wanted to be a Vet. She thought she might become a paramedic Chopper Pilot, but somehow ended up at Vet School instead. Then sadly within her first year of graduating Dr Renee found her conventional vet training lacking.
A lightbulb moment occurred when she cured an incurable abscess on an alpaca’s face (that had not responded to multiple rounds of antibiotics or surgery) with homeopathy!   This experience inspired her to fall down the rabbit hole that is holistic veterinary medicine.  She studied veterinary homeopathy and Chinese herbal medicine, and the importance of real nutrition.
15 years later, Dr Renee is a partner in The Natural Vets, a dedicated integrative vet clinic in Forest Glen on the Sunshine Coast.  A clinic that promotes raw diets, minimal vaccine schedules and an holistic approach to pet wellness.
Dr Renee is passionate about educating people on the true causes of disease and the path to health, and living a gentle life in connection with the earth and all of its creatures.

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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.