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Saturday 24th April 2021, 2-4pm, Growing Fabulous Bananas

01/04/2021 By

Looking at growing your own bananas, or maintaining the ones you have? Maybe a banana circle is for you

From soil conditions, assessing what works for your yard, planting, watering, fertilising, composting, pest controls, crop management, harvesting and ripening. We will leave the eating up to you!

Book your ticket here

Presenter’s Biography:

Rob and Rowan will explain every step in this interactive workshop, highlighting how easy it is to grow and maintain a banana circle.

With years of backyard banana growing experience in the local area, and commercial farming (both organic and other) they will answer any questions you may have. The focus of this workshop is implementing and maintaining a banana circle (a simple yet effective permaculture practice to grow and maintain your own delicious bananas)

Filed Under: Featured, Workshops Tagged With: Banana circle, permaculture method, Workshop

Saturday, 12th October 2019, 9 – 11am – Composting and Mulching your way to good health with Dave Clark

16/09/2019 By

There have been huge new discoveries in soil science in recent years, and we now know that we have to lookcompost_bay_making increasingly to Regenerative techniques to bring the majority of our soils back to life, and for our crops to carry the nutrition they once did. A boost in focus on the microbiology of soils has also led to the potential to reduce our use of fertilizers while still improving the soil.
Additionally, the way we grow the things we eat, and the medium we grow them in, has an enormous impact on the nutrient density of the produce. This impacts directly on our health and well-being.
Increases in our understanding have also affected inputs into traditional compost making, and new knowledge allows us to make compost that is even more valuable in our agricultural and gardening efforts.
There are many ways to increase the fertility of our soil and improve our health while reducing the amount spent at the produce store, and we would like to share them with you.

To book for this workshop click here

About the presenter

Prior to retirement Dave was an itinerant Permaculture teacher, designer and consultant working here and overseas. Originally trained by Geoff Lawton and then Bill Mollison he did voluntary Permaculture work at projects in Uganda and South Africa and in New Guinea after the Aitape tsunami, working with survivors and local NGO’s, and in villages in the Angoram area on the Sepik River. Later he was employed by CARE Aust in Macedonia where he worked for the UN rehabilitating a 50 hectare refugee camp site after the Kosovo war. He then traveled to Israel where he taught at the Ein Gedi Field School for the Society for the Protection of Nature.
Since retirement he has become passionately interested in Regenerative Agriculture and the soil food web, and is practicing small scale Holistic grazing, pasture establishment and soil improvement through cover cropping, composting and the use of bacteria and fungi on a small acreage in Doonan.

Filed Under: Composting, Recent Workshops, Workshops Tagged With: composting, Dave Clark, Good Health, mulching

Saturday, 22 & 29 June 2019, 9-11 am – Creating Systems To Increase Productivity With Tom Kendall

18/05/2019 By

Tom-KendallThis workshop with Tom Kendall provides an interactive platform to get an understanding of how to create systems to increase productivity on your property. It defines the value of creating your own fertility systems and gives you an understanding of what is lacking and what needs to be added to improve fertility. In the first workshop Tom will give participants an understanding of fertility systems, and the information for participants to go home and discover what may be lacking on their property. In the second week possible system implementation and /or improvements will be discussed. Tom will emphasise low outside input systems, so it is affordable and feasible for everyone.

Note this workshop takes place over 2 Saturday mornings

To book click here

Tom Kendall is a permaculture farmer with over 40 years farming experience and a broad acre agriculture background. He is co-founder increase-productivityof the PRI Sunshine Coast Inc and PRI Luganville, Vanuatu and runs PDC courses and Permaculture training for the PRI Sunshine Coast Inc. at the Kendall Permaculture Farm Education and Training Site. Tom has a talent to identify and repair damaged and eroded landscapes, focusing on soil health and transforming damaged land to highly productive land. He repaired 7000 acres of dry land farm which had been conventionally farmed for many years and which was experiencing loss of top soil and erosion, by converting it to organic / bio-dynamic practices and making it profitable again. He also repaired around 10 acres of degraded, low fertility, sub-tropical ex-banana farm land, which is now a lush, flourishing Permaculture Demonstration and Education site on the Sunshine Coast. All land improvement was done on a low budget with minimum outside inputs, and was designed to derive an income from the land. Being brought up in a remote area of Western Australia, he was taught from very young to be inventive, innovative and self reliant, a practise he still continues today and teaches to his students.

To book click here

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Property productivity, Tom Kendall

Saturday, 8 June 2019, 9 am-12:30 pm – Twist it Up – Adult Coil Weaving with Indigo Buchanan

17/05/2019 By

This week you will go on a journey as you learn about coil weaving. You will learn how to begin consistently and how to add new fibre into your baskets, how to finish neatly and all about the importance of tension. You will also learn about how to bring up sides on a basket and how you can keep tension consistent by using an aid such as a metal or plastic or wooden bowl about the size and shape that you want your basket to become. Please bring something like this as weaving aid, as it will prevent you from making your basket too small. Also we can make mats if you wish. Choice is yours, because once you know the technique you imagination is the only limit.

Indigo has been learning all about weaving with natural fibres from various indigenous communities around Australia. She gives back to First Nations people whenever the opportunity arises , and has waited a long time for blessings to run weaving workshops here on the Sunshine Coast. Indigo is passionate about connecting people together through weaving, and connecting all people to the country in a respectful way. She uses both traditional fibre, but also she uses many things that may grow in your garden as well, helping our native environment by weaving with thing like cats claw.

To book for this workshop click here

Please note that this is a hands-on workshop and is longer than the usual workshop timing, as there is so much for you to learn and practice

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Adult coil weaving, basket weaving

Saturday, 11 May 2019, 9 – 11 am – Healthy Soils, Healthy Food, Healthy You With Leonie Shanahan

18/04/2019 By

Do you want vibrant health, energy and happiness?  It all starts in the soil!  Growing soil that is full of fungi, microbes and life – and its easy, and loaded with health benefits.   Get your soils right and you will produce abundant food that is going to support your body with wellness.   Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy you and your family.   You will learn how to grow the healthiest food possible (pots and in ground) and why gardening is the medicine of the future.  We will also test the nutrient (Brix) level of some crops with a Refractometer and talk about the relationship of high brix level equal no pests and disease (healthy soils),  feel free to bring produce samples from your own garden to test.

To book for this workshop, click here

This is a chemical free event so please do not wear fragrances, perfumes or spray on deodorant.

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Brix, growing healthy food, Healthy Soil, Nutrient Dense Food

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