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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).

Saturday, 18 August 2018, from 9 am – 1 pm – The Secrets Of Growing Pest & Chemical Free Food With Graeme Sait

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Graeme Sait is a sought-after presenter, who travels to over 30 countries each year educating farmers and gardeners about growing high-quality food without the use of chemicals. Graeme is the author of over 300 published articles and two books and his YouTube clips have hundreds of thousands of views. Graeme often meets at Ministerial level around the world in his quest to spread the word about the profound links between soil health, human health, and planetary health. His presentations are often described as life-changing.

The 4-hour workshop at the Gardens 

This workshop entitled,“The Secrets of Growing Pest-Free Food with Forgotten Flavors and Enhanced Medicinal Qualities”, will have a strong practical focus. You will learn both the theory and the practice to make your gardening more stress-free and fun. The wide-ranging subject matter will include the following:

  • Making your own liquid living fertilisers – compost teas, specialist inoculumsworm juices, and lactobacillus teas can be remarkably effective, low-cost aids to increase yield and build resilience in your garden.
  • Composting competency– composting is a home garden essential. Here you will discover the mechanics of three super productive composting strategies including aerobic, anaerobic and Trichoderma composting.
  • Monitoring your progress– learn about the value of simple monitoring strategies to maximize plant health and pest resistance. Learn how to use a refractometer, how to measure soil and plant pH and discover a simple technique to monitor all-important potassium in your food crops.
  • The value of soil tests– we often spend thousands of unpaid hours as weekend warriors in the garden. Sometimes there are problem areas and unproductive plots that we never really learn to manage. A soil test can be a remarkable problem-solving tool when seeking to maximize production and minimize problems.
  • Improve your own health– Graeme is renowned around the world for sharing his considerable insight into how we can live longer, happier, healthier lives. Here you will learn stress-busting strategies, invaluable diet tips and you will discover practical tips for making full benefit of your bountiful produce. This segment will include demonstrations of lactofermentation, super smoothies, and the making of tender kale salads. You will also be given the recipe and tips for making the wonderful, DIY anti-inflammatory, Golden Paste.
  • Improve the health of your planet– discover the critically important role of soil health, in terms of countering climate change. Humus building is direct carbon sequestration, Nurturing your own patch can be your biggest individual contribution towards countering the global heating challenge. You will recognise the role of mulching, cover cropping and the use of humates to maximize the humus building potential of your garden.

This is a rare opportunity to hear Graeme focus upon your garden and your health in his hometown. There have been full houses at his previous presentations so book early to avoid disappointment. Click here to book

Please note due to Graeme’s popularity we are hosting the workshop at the Yandina-Eumundi RSL, the address is
24 North Street Yandina

This project has been proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s grants program

Saturday, 21 July, 9-11 am – Sustainable Living Spaces With Brett Grimley

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Do you have a dream to build your own sustainable living space, but think that it’s out of your reach? There are things that you can do, and not do, to keep costs low (e.g., using recycled products & doing without extra rooms & bathrooms). Brett & Amber Grimley opened their home for Sustainable House Day 2016 & 2017. Their house is as much about financial sustainability as it is about environmental sustainability. Brett is a local professional building designer & sustainable house design is his passion (see Ecolibrium Designs). Brett will show you tips, tricks & approaches to achieve a sustainable home for less.

To book for this workshop click here.

 

Saturday, 23 June, 9 – 11 am – Growing Your Own Mushrooms

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Join Urban Kulture for a wonderful presentation and hands-on skill development in gourmet mushroom cultivation. Learn how to grow your own Oyster mushrooms as we take you through the steps of mushroom cultivation with a focus on using urbanly available waste products all in a fun and friendly environment!

Facilitated by local Musician and Fungiphile Kayt Wallace who will be demystifying the amazing process of growing this beautiful variety of mushroom. Kayt will be sharing her passion for mycology and experience both low tech and commercial production methods using a variety of materials in our subtropical climate.

This workshop covers the production of oyster mushrooms using non sterile techniques. You will learn about all the steps involved in mushroom production including how to create your own cultures using nothing but waste stem butts from fresh mushrooms, and how to make mushroom spawn from recycled paper pellets and fruiting blocks using three different urbanly available substrates: Paper Pellets, Hardwood Pellets and spent coffee grounds! Now also covering pasteurised straw techniques and log grows. Workshop attendees will take home items made in the workshop including low tech spawn bag and Oyster mushroom fruiting bags.

Having always had a passion for science, nutrition and growing weird and wonderful things, Kayt Wallace first started growing Oyster mushrooms in 2015 for their incredible nutritional value and out of sheer curiosity. She quickly became fascinated with the process of working with mycelium from it’s very beginnings on Petri dishes in a lab in preparation to grow on many different growing mediums including coffee grinds, sugarcane mulch and other organic waste products. Kayt believes that knowledge should be shared, so it’s fitting that she is collaborating with Australia wide Mycological educators Urban Kulture to deliver workshops in the South East Queensland region and looks forward to sharing this wonderful process.

To book click here

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

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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

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Permaculture People

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Anne Gibson - The Micro Gardener
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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.

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