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!
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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)
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.
This 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.
of 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.
Choice is yours, because once you know the technique you imagination is the only limit.
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.
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