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Saturday, 6th February 2021, 4pm to 6pm, Composting and Worm farming at home

20/12/2020 By

What better way to turn waste into a resource than by working with nature in our own backyard. Organics make up more than 50% of our waste on the Sunshine Coast and this workshop will show you just how easy it is to recycle with composting, worm farming and everything in between.

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Presenter’s Biography:

Sandie Johnston is the coordinator of the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program and she will give troubleshooting tips and advice on creating an efficient, hassle free system to recycle your organic waste. This workshop is great for all types of keen gardeners, so whether you’re new to the composting game or maybe struggling with your system come along and get the answers.

 

Filed Under: Featured, Workshops Tagged With: composting, Worm Farming

Saturday 23rd January 2021, 4pm to 6pm, War on Waste with Sandie Johnston

17/02/2020 By

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.

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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’.

 

Filed Under: Featured, Workshops Tagged With: recycle, reduce, resuse, Sunshine coast council, war on waste

Saturday, 20 February 2021, 9-11.30am Splitting your Australian Stingless Beehive with Mel Marx

16/12/2019 By

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.
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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.

Filed Under: Bees, Featured, Workshops Tagged With: beekeeping, Hive splitting, native bees, native stingless bees, planting for bees, Rehoming native stingless bees

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.

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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

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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.

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

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