Sustainable Living

Sustainability

PLANT PROPAGATION AND SEED SAVING with Bunya Halasz Explore a range of simple plant propagation techniques including cuttings, root division and seed raising to allow you to grow a range of plants for your garden in a simple and cost effective manner. Learn a range of seed saving and storage techniques that empower you to secure the great diversity of food varieties on our planet. Discover how you can develop and evolve varieties of food plants that will have optimum productivity in the unique conditions of your own home garden. Sat, 17 Oct | 9am - 5pm Mullum Concession: $89 Full Fee: $99

TREES AND PERENNIAL CROPS - CREATING FOOD FORESTS with Bunya Halasz Learn how to design, establish and care for your own diverse, tree based food production system in a low maintenance fashion that works with natures fundamental processes of land and soil repair. Discover a huge array of fruit and nut trees from around the world that thrive in our warm, subtropical climate including indigenous bush foods. Sat, 21 Nov | 9am - 5pm Mullum Concession: $89 Full Fee: $99

VEGETABLES - INTEGRATED ORGANIC PRODUCTION with Bunya Halasz Explore a comprehensive range of Organic Gardening techniques including composting, crop rotation, companion planting and natural pest and disease management. Create a ‘no-dig garden’ from local, low cost materials and learn about seasonal planting in the humid Subtropics. Sun, 22 Nov | 9am - 5pm Mullum Concession: $89 Full Fee: $99 BUILD YOUR OWN ‘EARTH OVEN’ with Dani Wolff

NEW This hands on course will take you through the process of building a back yard oven made from clay & other earthen materials. These ovens can be scaled in size and used to cook wood fired pizzas, breads, crock pots and so much more! Sat & Sun, 17 & 18 Oct | 9am - 1pm Mullum Concession: $223 Full Fee: $248

INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL BUILDING with Dani Wolff

NEW Come along to learn about various earthen building materials such as Strawbales, Cob, Mudbricks & Lightearth, and learn how to use them in your project. Sun, 8 Nov | 9am - 1pm Mullum Concession: $153 Full Fee: $170

OPEN GARDEN with Heather Stevenson

NEW Visit a thriving urban food garden. So, you are interested in growing your own backyard fruit and veggies, maybe incorporating a couple of chooks. You know a bit about it, and really want to get into it, but would love to see how someone else is actually managing it, warts and all. Spend a morning having a good old stickybeak at Heather’s small kitchen garden. Wander around, ask questions, and get some great advice and ideas for your own food-based garden. Sat, 14 Nov | 9am - 12pm Mullum Concession: $68 Full Fee: $75