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Wednesday, 4 & 11 July, 10 am – 12 pm – Kids Holiday Program

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These school holidays join us for our kids holiday program. Activities include some fun recycled garden activities!
We will start with a garden walkabout and talk about bugs and bees, worms and chickens. We will then create some creatures and masks with found and repurposed materials.
Starting at 10 am to 12 pm. Bring food and drink to share if you wish. Fresh herbal teas available.
BYO: Recycled items for our Creative Creatures e.g. Cereal Boxes & other suitable cardboard. Clean plastic containers e.g. yoghurt tub, plastic drink or milk bottle.
IMPORTANT: Please wear clothes that can be paint & dirt stained… aprons & covers helpful.
Activities suitable for children aged 2-12. A parent/carer needs to accompany child/children.
The program runs over 2 Wednesdays, 4 & 11 July. Please book separately for each date.

Comfrey Fritters

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Ingredients

1 x cup flour

Water or flat beer

Salt, Paprika or herbs to taste

Oil (olive or coconut)

Method

Choose your favourite flour, make a batter of flour and water (1 cup flour & enough water or flat beer to make a “sticky batter”. You can also add salt, paprika or herbs to taste.
Dunk each leaf into your batter, making sure that each leaf is well covered with batter.
Fry in some oil (my choice is olive or coconut) in a hot pan until they turn golden brown (about 5 mins). Leave some stems on so it is easy to turn them over and pick them up.
You can eat them as they are or add to a meal.

Is Biochar the single most important initiative for humanity’s environmental future?

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“Biochar may represent the single most important initiative for humanity’s environmental future. The biochar approach provides a uniquely powerful solution, for it allows us to address food security, the fuel crisis, and the climate problem, and all in an immensely practical manner. ” Prof. Tim Flannery 2007 Australian of the Year

What is biochar?

Biochars refer to the carbon-rich materials (charcoal) produced from the slow pyrolysis (heating in the absence of oxygen) of biomass. Recently, there has been much interest in biochars as soil amendments to improve and maintain soil fertility and to increase soil carbon sequestration. The capacity to sequester carbon in the soil can be attributed to the relative stable nature and, therefore, long turnover time of biochar in soil and is of particular relevance to the solution of climate change. While it is difficult to estimate how long newly created biochar will stay in the soil some suggest it could be for as long as five thousand years.  Read more about Biochar…

YCG will be hosting a biochar workshop with Dave Clark.  To book, click here on the biochar workshop

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

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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

Saturday, 16 June, 9 – 11 am – Beyond Compost – How Biochar & Micro-organisms exponentially improve your soil

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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

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