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Saturday, 6th February 2021, 4pm to 6pm, Composting and Worm farming at home

20/12/2020 By

What better way to turn waste into a resource than by working with nature in our own backyard. Organics make up more than 50% of our waste on the Sunshine Coast and this workshop will show you just how easy it is to recycle with composting, worm farming and everything in between.

Book here

Presenter’s Biography:

Sandie Johnston is the coordinator of the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Program and she will give troubleshooting tips and advice on creating an efficient, hassle free system to recycle your organic waste. This workshop is great for all types of keen gardeners, so whether you’re new to the composting game or maybe struggling with your system come along and get the answers.

 

Filed Under: Recent Workshops Tagged With: composting, Worm Farming

Food Waste Loop – What’s happening in September?

12/09/2020 By

Yandina Community Gardens Food Waste Loop program has been operating for just over a month and we couldn’t be happier with the impact we’ve had already! We have diverted over 1.25 tonnes of waste, and saved over 2,400kg of C02-e emissions from our beautiful environment.
We have 10 businesses onboard who are happily separating their waste, and redirecting it for a greater purpose! We are so happy we are able to utilise this resource rather than it end up wasted in landfill.

Our hot compost piles are cooking, we are feeding our worms a variety of great scraps, and it’s warming up for the black soldier larvae. Check out a few photos from the past month.

Our compost piles built by are volunteers are hot!

 

Inspecting our worm farm!

One of our Food Waste Loop partners, proud to be part of the program! Project Officer, Emily Boyd, weighing and recording the waste before it’s added to the hot compost pile.

Chief compost inspector, Louie-Jay.
To share the journey with us, follow us on Facebook (Yandina Community Gardens), and Instagram (@ycgfoodwasteloop)

Filed Under: Food Waste Loop Tagged With: compost, food waste loop, Worm Farming

Food Waste Loop

12/09/2020 By

 About the Food Waste Loop project:
Yandina Community Gardens program, Food Waste Loop, diverts food ‘waste’ from Yandina’s food businesses into compost systems.
Yandina Community Gardens have created a localised waste management system. We have partnered with cafes, restaurants, coffee roastery’s, and grocery stores and divert the towns waste into three different compost systems. These are aerobic hot compost, worm farm composting, and black soldier fly larvae composting! We are recording how much of Yandina town waste we are able to process, and evaluating the viability of the Food Waste Loop program to be replicated across Australia.
This program reduces greenhouse gas emissions generated by landfills, whilst creating a valuable, nutrient-rich compost resource. We imagine a future where food ‘waste’ was actually not wasted, and was turned into an amazing resource for the local community to enjoy.
The Australian Government has committed to halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill for disposal by 2030, as per the National Waste Policy Action Plan. This means a reduction of 2.7 million tonnes of organic waste that is currently thrown out and ends up in landfill. The township of Yandina is playing a direct role in helping meet these targets. We are working towards easing the load on the following issues:
• Eliminating global food waste would save 4.4 million tonnes of C02 a year, the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road
• If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after USA and China
• The Government estimates food waste costs the Australian economy $20 billion each year
• Over 5 million tonnes of food ends up as landfill each year, enough to fill 9,000 Olympic sized swimming pools
• Landfill gas contributes 15 million tonnes to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
OzHarvest, 2020
The Food Waste Loop program commenced June 2020. This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Communities Environment Program.
To share the journey with us, follow us on Facebook (Yandina Community Gardens), and Instagram (@ycgfoodwasteloop)

Filed Under: Food Waste Loop Tagged With: compost, Compost bay making workshop, food waste, food waste loop, Worm Farming

Saturday, 14 April, 9-11 AM – Composting & Worm Farming At Home With Sandie Johnston

19/03/2018 By

What better way to turn waste into a resource than by working with nature in our own backyard. Organics make up more than 50% of our waste on the Sunshine Coast and this workshop will show you just how easy it is to recycle with composting, worm farming and everything in between.

Sandie Johnston is the Sunshine Coast Council’s Waste 2 Resource Education Coordinator and she will give troubleshooting tips and advice on creating an efficient, hassle free system to recycle your organic waste. This workshop is great for all types of keen gardeners, so whether you’re new to the composting game or maybe struggling with your system come along and get the answers. To book click here

Filed Under: Sustainable Living, Workshops Tagged With: composting, Learning, Sandie Johnston, sustainable living, Workshop, Worm Farming, Yandina community Gardens

Workshop – Saturday, 19 May, 9 – 11 am – Your Health Is Your Wealth And It Starts In Soil With Leonie Shanahan

14/03/2018 By

Do you want true health? Do you want to learn about how to grow organic food bursting with vitality and life? Do you want to save money?  then this talk is for you. Leonie Shanahan, passionate speaker about organic/permaculture gardens and health, will navigate you through processes in your vegetable garden from soil, compost, microbes, seed, food production and aftercare to produce high quality, nutrient rich, health giving food and more. Leonie has also spent the last 4 years researching health and has the latest information, that you all need to know, to take control of your health, daily routines that you can start in your life, now, to improve your health.

Leonie will give you lots of motivation to grab your trowel and head out to the garden. Remember healthy soils, healthy food, healthy you. Click here to book

Filed Under: Sustainable Living, Workshops Tagged With: composting, sustainable living, Workshop, Worm Farming, 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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