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Saturday 24th April 2021, 2-4pm, Growing Fabulous Bananas

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Looking at growing your own bananas, or maintaining the ones you have? Maybe a banana circle is for you

From soil conditions, assessing what works for your yard, planting, watering, fertilising, composting, pest controls, crop management, harvesting and ripening. We will leave the eating up to you!

Book your ticket here

Presenter’s Biography:

Rob and Rowan will explain every step in this interactive workshop, highlighting how easy it is to grow and maintain a banana circle.

With years of backyard banana growing experience in the local area, and commercial farming (both organic and other) they will answer any questions you may have. The focus of this workshop is implementing and maintaining a banana circle (a simple yet effective permaculture practice to grow and maintain your own delicious bananas)

Saturday, 20 July 2019, 9 am-12:30 pm – Coil weaving for beginners and continuing weavers with Indigo Buchanan

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This week you will go on a journey as you learn about coil weaving. You will learn how to begin consistently and how to add new fibre into your baskets, how to finish neatly and all about the importance of tension. You will also learn about how to bring up sides on a basket and how you can keep tension consistent by using an aid such as a metal or plastic or wooden bowl about the size and shape that you want your basket to become. Please bring something like this as a weaving aid as it will prevent you from making your basket too small. Also please bring , a wide-eyed blunt needle. This is a good time to collect materials from the garden; if it looks interesting or you’re curious about its use, bring it along.

Indigo has been learning all about weaving with natural fibres from various indigenous communities around Australia. She gives back to First Nations people whenever the opportunity arises , and has waited a long time for blessings to run weaving workshops here on the Sunshine Coast. Indigo is passionate about connecting people together through weaving, and connecting all people to the country in a respectful way. She uses both traditional fibre, but also she uses many things that may grow in your garden as well, helping our native environment by weaving with thing like cats claw.

To book for this workshop click here

Please note that this is a hands-on workshop and is longer than the usual workshop timing, as there is so much for you to learn and practice

Saturday, 16 March 2019, 9 – 11 am – Climate Change Resilience For Home Gardens With Steve Cran

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This workshop will cover different ways to set up your home and garden to be resilient in the face of climate change. One hailstorm can erase all your good work in the garden. The sun has changed colour from yellow to white and plants are changing their behaviour. There are so many aspects to climate change, but we can use clever systems and thrive where others may barely survive. Come along and learn what Steve has learned working in some of the world’s most challenging places.

  • Home food security, no matter what
  • Maximise home food production and storage
  • Emergency foods all year round
  • Water strategies
  • Vertical food production

Steve started in Permaculture in 1990 after seeing some of the insane damage from clear-felled forests in British Colombia Canada while on a holiday there. Having lived in BC for a few years as a kid, he was shocked to see the murder of such a pristine area where he’d hike and hunt as a teenager. Steve made the decision to direct his energies into helping the Earth somehow.

Steve completed his PDC, being inspired by Bill Mollison talking about using permaculture to save the planet. He started a permaculture landscape business in Brisbane. This was the beginning of his adventures as a Green Warrior.

With the help of Bill Mollison, he was given his first community development project in Wilcannia NSW where he worked for just over 2 years. Wilcannia was an Aboriginal town with the highest crime rate in Australia for its size. Using permaculture as the theme, the crime rate dropped by 90%. Since Wilcannia Steve has spent 5 years in East Timor training Timorese in Permaculture, working in Aceh directly after the tsunami of 2004 setting up a Permaculture Field School. There have been similar projects in Uganda, Philippines, Hong Kong, Ethiopia, Bali. These projects have trained people on how to grow their way out of poverty. Disaster zones, war zones and poverty zones all benefit from clever permaculture practices. Steve has learned many innovative techniques from many of the people he worked for.

Booking is essential, places are limited. To book click here

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

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We Can Look Forward To More Hands-on Workshops In 2019

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Diversity of inputs is what makes it work
Green material is essential
Half way through the process
Many hands means there’s time to ‘network’

This year YCG will be focusing on more hands-on, practical workshops such as the compost bay making workshop held in January. In this workshop participants did not only get the theory of compost making but had an opportunity to build bays and compost heaps with Dave Clark an experienced Permaculturist who is passionate about restoring soil back to its former glory.

Participants were delighted with what they learnt with many commenting on how little they actually knew about compost.

So keep an eye out on our website and newsletter for more such hands-on workshops that will increase the depth of your knowledge on various topics.

Adding cut up “greens” to compost
Inoculating new compost heap with some ‘old’ compost
Compost heap complete
Compost bay building workshop participants ready to tackle their own compost at home

Saturday, 9 February 2019, 9 – 11 am – Fermented Foods with Elisabeth Fekonia

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Join Elisabeth Fekonia, an accredited permaculture teacher on a fermented foods workshop. Elisabeth has been largely self sufficient on her 6 acre property for the past 25 years and has been travelling all over Queensland teaching cheese making and fermenting courses. There will be hands on activities from volunteers from the floor on how to make: Kefir soft drink, fermented polenta fingers, sourdough crackers, fermented bean pate, vegan cultured sour cream and more. Come along and learn about the benefits of fermented foods, tastes and how to make your own.

Click here to watch Elisabeth being interviewed ‘on the red couch’

To book click here

Elisabeth collects mobile phones dead or alive to send to Africa, please bring along any that you have.

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

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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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