Yandina Community Gardens

  • Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Getting Involved
    • Become A Member
    • Become A Volunteer
    • Newsletter Subscription
  • Login
  • My Account
    • Lost Password
  • 0 items
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Events News
  • Workshops
    • Workshop payment and refund policy
  • Learning
    • Fact Sheets For Sale
    • Resources
    • Know Your Plants
    • Recipes
  • Shop & Nursery
    • Plants For Sale
    • Other Items For Sale (only available in store)
    • Gift Voucher
  • Garden Tours
  • Garden Features
  • Venue Hire
You are here: Home / Archives for Good Health

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

Composting & Mulching Your Way to Good Health

08/10/2017 By

There have been huge discoveries in soil science in recent years, and we now know that we have to look increasingly to Regenerative techniques to bring most of our soils back to life, and for our crops to carry the nutrition they once did. Focus on the microbiology of soils has also led to the potential to reduce our use of fertilisers while still improving the soil. 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 & wellbeing. 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. Dave will share with you many ways to increase the fertility of our soil and improve our health while reducing the amount spent at the produce store. Dave is a highly experienced Permaculturist & Permaculture teacher.

Dave has generously donated this workshop to Yandina Community Gardens.

Cost: $5 Non-Members, Gold coin for Members, Free to Regular Volunteers

Duration: 1.5-2 hours. Bookings are NOT required.

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: -Featured, composting, Good Health, Learning, Permaculture, Workshop

Our Location & Hours

41 Farrell street, Yandina, see map
Mon, Tue 8.30am-2pm, Sat 8.30am-12pm Closed public holidays

Workshops

  • Healthy soil

    Saturday 27th March 2021, 3-5pm, Time to grow your own food and wellness with Leonie Shanahan

    $15.00 – $20.00
    Select options
  • Saturday 13th March 2021, 3pm to 5pm, Living Rhythm workshop with Erin Young

    $15.00 – $20.00
    Select options
  • Saturday 6th March 2021, 3pm to 5pm, Seed raising & Propagating with Annaliese Hordern

    $15.00 – $20.00
    Select options
  • permaculture_education_institute

    Become a Qualified Permaculture Educator with Morag Gamble

    click here to find out more

Categories

  • Bees (5)
  • Chickens (1)
  • Competitions (2)
  • Composting (3)
  • e-Book (1)
  • Event (8)
  • Events (10)
  • Fact Sheet (4)
  • Featured (10)
  • Food Waste Loop (4)
  • Garden Tours (3)
  • Giving Plastic The Flick (2)
  • Kids Event (1)
  • Know Your Plants (49)
  • Nursery Plants (9)
  • Organisation (11)
  • Other (4)
  • Permaculture Method (7)
  • Recent Events (12)
  • Recent Workshops (47)
  • Recipes (17)
  • Sustainable Living (16)
  • Vacancies (1)
  • Venue Hire (1)
  • Volunteers (4)
  • Workshops (37)
  • YCG History (2)

Tags

biochar compost composting Cover crops edible leaves edible rhizomes Event events food waste food waste loop fruit Garden Tour Kids event Kids program know your plants Learning Living sustainably Management Committee management committee members medicinal plants member event Morag Gamble native stingless bees nursery Nutrient Dense Food Open garden visit Permaculture Permaculture in action Plant Plant of the month plants plastic free Recipe Recipes Sustainable Building sustainable living volunteer water plant Wax-wrap making wax-wraps Workshop workshops Worm Farming Yandina Community Garden Yandina community Gardens

Our Supporters

Rockcote (cob oven)
Nutritech Solutions
Yandina Feed Barn
Permaculture Noosa
Jeffers Wholesome Foods  

Permaculture People

Elizabeth Fekonia - Permaculture Real Food
Morag Gamble - Our Permaculture Life
Dee Humphreys - Eatin Garden Edible Garden Tours

Follow Us!

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on Instagram

NEWSLETTER

Copyright © 2021 · Yandina Community Gardens Inc. Assoc. · Terms of Service · Privacy Policy · Disclaimer