Yandina Community Gardens

41 Farrell street, Yandina

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Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 10 am – 12 pm – Kids school holiday fun

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These school holidays join us for some garden activity fun.
We will start with a garden walkabout and talk about bugs and bees, worms and chickens. We will then create some creatures and masks with found and repurposed materials. We will also do some potting up.
Bring food and drink to share if you wish.
Important: Please wear clothes that can be paint & dirt stained… aprons & covers are helpful.
Activities suitable for children aged 2-12. A parent/carer needs to accompany the child/children.

Booking essential as places are limited. To book click here

Saturday, 29 September, 9 – 11 am – Make your own wax-cloth wraps

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Join Robyn and Bree from our ‘Give Plastic the Flick’ group for a hands-on workshop making your own wax wraps. These workshops are a great place to meet new friends and learn just how easy it is to make re-usable wax wraps in your own home. We will talk to you about various methods, where to source products and what materials you need. It’s a relaxed environment and we tend to have a lot of fun learning and teaching! You are always welcome to stay afterwards and enjoy a cup of tea with us.

Please bring

  • A fine cotton material, you may have some at home or check out Op Shops as they often have small pieces of cotton material, must be cotton, not poly cotton, suggested sizes – Small ( 12x 12 cm), Medium ( 23 x 23 cm), Large( 33×33 cm). You need to wash and dry your material prior to the workshop. Gayle will also have a plentiful supply of material available on the day for a small fee.
  • Pinking Sheers if you have them
  • Cool drinks and morning tea ( fridge available ).

This will be a relaxed fun morning. To book, click here

Tea & coffee will be served after the event, please bring your own mug as YCG strives to host waste free workshops. Also, note the workshops are all weather events (rain or shine).

Preparing for the garden redesign with Morag Gamble

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The YCG strategic garden team working with Morag Gamble to prepare for the 4 session PDC Intensive that will be focusing on redesigning and improving the YCG demonstration Gardens. The team talked about the future of the Gardens and all expressed their desire to make this space a living example of community engagement and interaction where young and old feel comfortable to learn about Permaculture and sustainable living.

To learn more about the workshop click here

To book a space for this workshop click here

Exciting hands-on 4 session Permaculture Intensive at YCG with Morag Gamble

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Who should attend this workshop

Anyone who would like a quality, quick, hands-on workshop on Permaculture design or who would like to brush-up on some of the aspects of Permaculture design.

About the Permaculture intensive workshop

Yandina Community Gardens are about to embark on an exciting journey of redesign and would love to invite you to participate. This hands-on Permaculture intensive will take place at the Gardens a thriving community hub and educational space, but we think it is time to review the design and rethink how we weave permaculture into all aspects of what we do.

This is a chance for you to be part of the evolution of the gardens. With the experienced codesign facilitation of Morag Gamble, together we will create a fabulous design for this community education space where the principles of permaculture can be clearly seen and excellent examples of permaculture design, holistic thinking and sustainable living function together as a cohesive whole and are visible throughout.

Dave planting a tree in memory of Bill Mollison

We are co-creating a world-class permaculture education demonstration garden and you are warmly welcome to join in. No experience is necessary – just an open willingness to:

• imagine a positive future

• listen to the land and others

• enjoy learning and sharing ideas together

• think and design creatively together

This is a great opportunity to deepen your knowledge, understanding, and practice of permaculture thinking and design. You will feel more capable to be actively engaged in the ongoing development of the community gardens and have so many excellent ideas to apply to your own garden too.

This is a 4 part workshop led by Morag Gamble.

PART 1: SEEING THE GARDENS WITH FRESH EYES – 4 AUGUST, 9 am – 1 pm

Together we will observe, explore and reflect upon the purpose and design of the gardens. We will do a deep dive into the permaculture ethics and principles and take a look at some creative inspiration. By the end of this session, we will have undertaken a site assessment, needs analysis and created a permaculture wish list for the gardens.

PART 2: RESHAPING THE GARDEN DESIGN – 11 AUGUST, 9 am – 1 pm

In a collaborative design studio setting, participants will refine the permaculture element selection, map out zones, connections, and flows, and create a draft concept design for the gardens.

PART 3: DESIGNING THE DETAIL – 25 AUGUST, 9 am – 1 pm

With a clearer idea of the elements and broad patterns of the site, this workshop will be a collaborative design studio to develop detail design ideas and systems for the site.

PART 4: THE NEW DESIGN PLAN – 8 SEPTEMBER, 9 am – 11 am

The collection of design ideas, plans, and strategies that emerge through the first three sessions will be woven together and presented back to the group as a cohesive design.

Together we will walk the site, check the design, tweak it and reflect on our process and learnings.

We encourage you to participate in all four sessions. It will be like completing a practical mini-PDC intensive and change the way you interact with, understand and connect with this amazing community, community space and your spaces at home.

Booking is essential, numbers are limited.

To book for this hands-on Permaculture intensive workshop, click here

About Morag Gamble

Morag Gamble is a permaculture and community garden pioneer. She co-founded Northey Street City Farm and the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network. Morag has supported the collaborative design and development of many community gardens, schools, university and hospital garden projects both locally and in global cities such as Hong Kong, Havana, Barcelona, Seoul, L.A, Berkeley and more. She wrote the Urban Agriculture Report for Brisbane (2005) and helps people design their home food gardens.

Morag is a regular teacher at community gardens, permaculture centres, and libraries and lectured in Food Politics for many years at Griffith University. She is the founder of The Permaculture Education Institute (https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org), creator of Our Permaculture Life (Blog, YouTube Channel and ourpermaculturelife.com) and other programs such as The Good Life School (online education), Nature Kids, and Earth School camps for high schoolers.

Her goal is to actively engage as many people as possible in positive community action around growing food – for people and the planet.

Morag holds a Bachelor of Planning and Design and a Postgraduate Diploma of Landscape

Architecture from The University of Melbourne and a Master of Environmental Education (Hons) from Griffith University. She has taught permaculture for over 25 years in 20 countries.

Are mushrooms the answer to our plastic problem?

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Mycoremediation

Imagine all the plastic trash you accumulate from one trip to the grocery store, from water bottles and children’s toys to clamshell containers and cosmetic microbeads. Now imagine enough trash to equal the weight of one billion elephants, and you’ll have some sense as to the amount of plastic we’ve discarded since the 1950s.

Plastics are now humanity’s number one source of pollution, accounting for 20-30 percent of landfill volume worldwide, while an additional 12 million metric tons are dumped annually into our oceans. As each piece can take millennia to decompose completely, our discarded plastics form vast trash islands called “gyres”—there’s even one the size of Texas—where marine species mistake the toxic, increasingly-microscopic particles for plankton and other food sources.

With plastic consumption still on the rise, it’s a fast-compounding problem no one quite knows how to solve, but Peter McCoy is one of many who believe the answer has been under our feet the whole time. “Plastics have been known as susceptible to fungal degradation since they were first manufactured over 100 years ago,” explains McCoy, who founded the grassroots research organization Radical Mycology, which advocates for underutilized applications of mushrooms and other fungi.  Read more about Mycoreremediation…

YCG will be hosting a mushroom growing workshop. Click here to book for the Mushroom workshop

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Permaculture People

Elizabeth Fekonia - Permaculture Real Food
Anne Gibson - The Micro Gardener
Morag Gamble - Our Permaculture Life
Dee Humphreys - Eatin Garden Edible Garden Tours

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.