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Volunteers and Mutual Obligation Participants Wanted

21/10/2018 By

Both our Volunteers and our Mutual Obligation Participants are a vital part of our organisation.  If your are interested or just curious, please pop in and visit during our open hours to check out what we do. We look forward to welcoming new volunteers, if you come around 10am will will invite you to have morning tea with our current team.

When you are sure about committing, we will organize an induction with necessary paper work.

Filed Under: Featured, Food Waste Loop, Volunteers Tagged With: Food loop, Living sustainably, Mutual Obligation, Permaculture, volunteer, volunteer induction, Yandina community Gardens

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

17/08/2018 By

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).

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: Learning, Living sustainably, making wax-wraps, wax cloth-wraps, wax-wrap, Workshop, Yandina community Gardens

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

21/05/2018 By

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

Filed Under: Workshops Tagged With: growing mushrooms, Kayt Wallace, Learning, Living sustainably, mushrooms, sustainable living, Urban Kuture, Workshop, workshops, Yandina Community Garden, Yandina community Gardens

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

Winners Of the Celebrate Festival Tickets Share Their Experience

21/05/2018 By

Kylie Morrigan and Mal Webb
Kylie Morrigan and Mal Webb
Tom Kendal
Tom Kendal
Geoff-Lawton-Food-Forest
Geoff Lawton in the Food Forest
Congratulations to Kim and Brett Brown who won the ticket to the CelebrATE festival. Here is what Kim had to say:
Yes!! Master Banjo (my son) and I went to CelebrATE together and we had an absolute ball.  Learning, singing, dancing, camping and sharing with like minded people – does it get any better than that?  Highlights were the farm tour with Tom Kendall, the Food Forrest walk, talk with Geoff Lawton and the music.  A surprise for me was learning about biogas, making gas for the kitchen from manure and greens – very interesting.  Banjo’s favourite was The Food Forrest walk with Geoff and the chicken workshop with Amanda Moore.  We highly recommend attending CelebrATE next year and getting some great information specific to our bioregion from people well established in the area.
Many thanks to Tom and Zaia for donating the ticket, we are very grateful to have won the ticket through YCG, without the windfall we would not have been able to attend.

 

Amanda Moore Chicken workshop
Amanda Moore Chicken workshop
Banjo at Celebrate Festival
Banjo enjoying lunch with new friends
Biogas biodigester
Biogas and the biodigester built by Tom

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: CeleBrate Festival, Competition Winners, Event, Geoff Lawton, Living sustainably, Members, sustainable living, Tom Kendall, Yandina community Gardens

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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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