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!
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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.