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Saturday, 20 February 2021, 9-11.30am Splitting your Australian Stingless Beehive with Mel Marx

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Yandina Community Gardens is blessed with a lot of plant resources that assist the Australian Stingless bees to thrive in the gardens. Spend a morning with Mel Marx exploring and understanding Australian Stingless bees, knowing when they are ready to split and caring for them after the split. On the day we will be splitting one of the Australian Stingless beehives on the YCG site.
About the presenter:
Mel Marx is an avid Australian Stingless beekeeper and works with Bob Luttrell to rescue and rehome bee colonies from water meter boxes. She lives on a 100-acre property North of Yandina and is currently creating habitat for the bees by planting native plant and tree species on her property. She hopes to get a Native Stingless bee honey industry up and running working with other beekeepers to make this exceptional honey with its incredible medicinal properties available to more people.

Events at Northey Street City Farm, during November 2019

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We’re delighted to share with our readers the workshops that our Sister organization in Brisbane will be hosting during November 2019.

A Place in the Country with Michael Wardle

Date and Time: Saturday 9 November 2019, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location: Northey Street City Farm, 16 Victoria Street, Windsor

Cost: $100/$85 Health Care Card + Eventbrite Fee

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Are you looking for a tree change? Does the appeal of country appeal to you? A Place in the Country is fundamental for anyone who has or plans to have a rural property.

Whether your goal is food, homesteading or enjoyment, this workshop offers the open, honest path to creating your own pleasing, productive and sustainable rural landscape.

Suitable for those interested in small hobby farms of all shapes and sizes, this workshop gives you down to earth, practical advice to help you achieve a long-term sense of peace and prosperity on the land.

Michael Wardle is the adult education coordinator at Northey Street City Farm and he is a father of 4, has worked in schools and the community and is a permaculture educator, designer and consultant for Savour Soil Permaculture. He moved from larger acreage to a more suburban block 6 years ago and has been applying the permaculture design process to his life and new property and has trained with Rosemary Morrow, David Holmgren, Dave Jacke and Dan Palmer.

 

Native Stingless Bees with Tim Heard

Date and Time: Saturday 23 November 2019, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location: Northey Street City Farm, 16 Victoria Street, Windsor

Cost: $100/$85 Health Care Card Holder + Booking Fee

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Learn about bee nesting and foraging, diversity of wild bees, importance of bees in natural systems, traditional and modern stingless beekeeping in Australia and around the world, using stingless bees for pollination of gardens and farms, sugarbag honey, rescuing threatened wild bees and more. Demonstrations cover hive design, splitting hives, extracting honey. If available, we also transfer a colony from a natural location into a hive. Please let Tim know if you have a suitable colony.

 

Introduction to Permaculture

Date and Time: Saturday 30/11/2019 & Sunday 1/12/2019, 9:00 am – 4:00pm
Location: Northey Street City Farm, 16 Victoria Street, Windsor
Cost: $250/$200 Health Care Card + Eventbrite Fee

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Come to explore an overview of permaculture through the eyes of the ethics and design principles. This course tackles how to grow food, build houses and create communities, and minimize environmental impact at the same time. Its principles are being constantly developed and refined by people throughout the world.

Join us for two days to learn the basics of permaculture design. The course aims to inspire and empower you to use permaculture design in your everyday life.

You will learn the history, various definitions, design process, ethics, principles, other design tools and case studies from a range of applications.

This course will cover:
℘ What is Permaculture?
℘ Permaculture Ethics and Design Principles
℘ Soil Basics
℘ Composting for beginners
℘ Food Production (forest gardens and garden farming)
℘ Basic Design Framework
℘ Integrated Animal Systems
℘ Social Permaculture

Limited numbers to maximize the outcomes of this dynamic 2-day course.

What you get…
℘ Access to awesome online resources to match the on-ground learning.
℘ Practical examples of permaculture in action
℘ Design and gardening strategies to apply in both your inner & physical landscape.

Tea and coffee, will be provided.

 

 

 

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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.