Join us for an outdoor workshop with Dave Clark discussing everything you need to know for successful Compost making and Worm Farming.
You will learn How To Make Them (turning/not turning compost in mounds/bins; what’s required for a Worm Farm); How To Use the products; Fun things you can add and most importantly, How To Fix any Problems.
Dave, a retired Permaculture teacher and past-President of Permacuture Noosa, has been making Compost and raising Worms in many different locations for decades. Now he recycles hundreds of litres of food waste and coffee grounds from local businesses each week on his few acres in Doonan.
We now understand that the best way to help our Plants is to help our Soil … and Compost/Vermicompost (NOT fertilisers) is the very best way to do this because it mimics Nature and what our Plants prefer.
COST- $25.00 members
$35.00 non-members
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.