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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.

Book here

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: Recent Workshops Tagged With: composting, Worm Farming

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, 16 June, 9 – 11 am – Beyond Compost – How Biochar & Micro-organisms exponentially improve your soil

21/05/2018 By

Advances in soil science & microbiology show us how we can eliminate the need for fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides or fungicides in crops and gardens. Soils can be drought-proofed, plant pathogens controlled and both yield and nutrient density greatly enhanced; with reduction of your labour an additional benefit.
For over 25 years local permaculturist Dave Clark has been struggling to bring fertility to his 5 acres of extremely poor soil. Compost and diversity were his initial tools, but he is now finding that it is easier, cheaper and way more effective, to enlist the aid of micro-organisms (using biochar as habitat) in his quest to be a more successful subsistence farmer.
A five day Nutrition Farming course with Graeme Sait (Nutri Tech Solutions) and a host of further reading, plus on-site experimentation has led him to a point where he thinks he has important knowledge to share, in addition to advances in compost making.
To book click here

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: biochar, composting, Learning, Living sustainably, micro-organisms, sustainable living, Workshop, Yandina Community Garden, Yandina community Gardens

Saturday, 14 April, 9-11 AM – Composting & Worm Farming At Home With Sandie Johnston

19/03/2018 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.

Sandie Johnston is the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Coordinator 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. To book click here

Filed Under: Sustainable Living, Workshops Tagged With: composting, Learning, Sandie Johnston, sustainable living, Workshop, Worm Farming, Yandina community Gardens

Workshop – Saturday, 19 May, 9 – 11 am – Your Health Is Your Wealth And It Starts In Soil With Leonie Shanahan

14/03/2018 By

Do you want true health? Do you want to learn about how to grow organic food bursting with vitality and life? Do you want to save money?  then this talk is for you. Leonie Shanahan, passionate speaker about organic/permaculture gardens and health, will navigate you through processes in your vegetable garden from soil, compost, microbes, seed, food production and aftercare to produce high quality, nutrient rich, health giving food and more. Leonie has also spent the last 4 years researching health and has the latest information, that you all need to know, to take control of your health, daily routines that you can start in your life, now, to improve your health.

Leonie will give you lots of motivation to grab your trowel and head out to the garden. Remember healthy soils, healthy food, healthy you. Click here to book

Filed Under: Sustainable Living, Workshops Tagged With: composting, sustainable living, Workshop, Worm Farming, Yandina community Gardens

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