Yandina Community Gardens

41 Farrell street, Yandina

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Have You Renewed Your Membership?

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To all our members who joined us before January 2018 remember to renew your membership right away so that you can continue to enjoy the following benefits.

  • Reduced prices on nursery plants & shop products
  • Exclusive member social gatherings (organised in May & December)
  • Reduced workshop prices
  • Members only draws & giveaways
  • The sense of belonging to & contributing to YCG’s vision and purpose

We look forward to connecting with you throughout the year and appreciate your support of our vision to be a knowledge & demonstration hub for sustainable living. Click here to renew

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

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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

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

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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

Composting and Worm Farming an Easy Way To Build Healthy Soil

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Using compost in your garden is one of the best ways to put nutrients back into the soil. Rich soil increases yield, improves plant health and reduces the need for artificial fertilisers.

Composting and worm farming at home

  • Kitchen scraps and garden waste makes up almost half of the domestic rubbish produced by a household. Most of this material can be composted, to reduce the amount of rubbish that goes to landfill.
  • Using grass cuttings on the garden as mulch saves water, fertiliser and money.
  • Residents can reduce their waste to landfill by careful meal planning and shopping. One third of the food bought on the Sunshine Coast is wasted.
  • Composting and worm farming are two simple ways to minimise waste.
  • Composting creates a nutrient-rich soil conditioner that can be reused in the garden. It provides nutrition for plants, flowers and vegetables and helps to prevent moisture loss when used as surface mulch.

Worm farming is a way to recycle organic materials like kitchen scraps. Compost worms are nature’s own recyclers, converting kitchen scraps and garden waste for free, while also creating nutrient-rich plant food perfect for the garden or potted plants.

Sandie Johnston, one of the Sunshine Coast’s premier waste educators, takes you on a journey – from learning how to choose the right system and setting it up to maintenance and troubleshooting.

To help residents, council has produced instructional videos, compost, worm farms and everything in-between.

Read more about composting and worm farming in council’s organic waste fact sheet

Article courtesy of Sunshine Coast Council

YCG will be hosting a workshop with Sandie Johnston, who will assist you to turn waste into a resource by working with nature in your 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.

Click here to book

 

Workshop – Saturday, 24 March, 9 – 11 am – Frogs & Frog Ponds With Sean Morrow

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Frog pondSean Morrow has over 27 years experience in the Landscaping industry and has owned and operated One Earth Landscaping for over 18 years (a licensed landscaping company based on the Sunshine Coast with a creative, organic approach). Sean prefers to work with natural materials, and his passions include timber and stone construction, water features and frog ponds, organic home food production, bio-dynamics and Permaculture as well as the creation of native bird, frog and reptile habitats.

Sean has run workshops for the past 10 years at the Queensland Home Garden Expo in Nambour, as well as across the sunshine coast library network, through the local council, Landcare Pomona, the dreaming festival at Woodfordia and at other local garden groups and community gardens.   Sean also runs workshops at his 6.5 Acre property in Pomona which he has opened through ‘Open Gardens Australia’. Somewhat of a kids celebrity, Shaun has also presented on two occasions for the kids’ television show- ‘Totally Wild’.

Come and join Sean for an inspirational workshop on all things frogs. Click here to book

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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.