Beginning on Monday 19 September is our last Permaculture Design Course (PDC) for 2011. This two-week intensive course will cover all of our usual exciting permaculture subjects from designing, creating and maintaining a productive food garden, to living more lightly on the Earth.
Spaces still available, but get in quick!
Visit our Courses and workshops page for more information and booking details.
Check out the new Sustainable Living Workshops just listed including:
Establishing and maintaining a vegie garden and solar cooking.
Join us for what is likely to be the only cob oven building workshop we’ll host this year. Learn to build an efficient baking earth oven capable of cooking anything from pizzas to roasts, breads and cake to drying foods. We’ll actually build an oven during the workshop, as well as discuss the design behind it and how to use it.
Bookings essential. See our Courses and workshops page for more information and booking details
, or call 07 3857 8775 to book you place.
Sign up now for one of the country’s best (and maybe only) urban permaculture Design Course. Our team of awesome permaculture trainers will guide you through designing your property for maximum productivity, show you how to build and enrich your soils, catch and store water, choose correct plants, shrubs and trees for your site, keep animals to help with your garden work, work with nature to control pests and diseases, and more!
Our next course is a Saturday course and begins on 16 July.
We are also running a PDC Intensive over the September school holidays beginning Monday 19 September.
Visit our Courses and Workshops page for more details and how to sign up.
Fermenters’ kitchen. Saturday 11 June. 9 am to 4 pm at The Peace Hall under Albion Overpass. Expand your bacterial horizons, cultivate your prebiotic oligosaccharides and join us for a day of cultured beverages, foraged fruits, pickled veggies and other wild microbial wonders.
In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn the art of traditional food processing and get to sample and enjoy healthy and nutritious fermented food…..
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. It is about designing households and communities that are productive, sustaining and largely self reliant and have minimal impact on the environment.
National Permaculture Day – Sunday 1st May is a day where a range of Permaculture events occur across Australia. Open homes, gardens and farms, films, educational workshops, permablitzes and a host of other activities provide an opportunity for the public to see positive Permaculture projects in action, to talk personally to the people living it and experience the Permaculture movement first hand.
Last year, thousands flocked to discover what Permaculture is all about, to see home gardens and to find answers or solutions to problems. This year promises to be even bigger and better, with many more homes, gardens and workshops on show.
At our very own Northey Street City Farm, we’re hosting a range of exciting activities to get you in the “permaculture spirit”. Come along on the day, tour our Organic Farmers’ Market and then shop from local growers for your weekly supplies, tour the Farm and see what we’re up to, learn about our new sustainable Permaculture Learning Centre, get your hands dirty by learning how to build no-dig, no-fuss vegie gardens for your own back yard.
For more information about National Permaculture Day and what’s happening in other parts of our fair land, visit the National Permaculture Day web site.
This exciting program gives you knowledge and skills for designing productive gardens and properties, growing your own food, applying appropriate technologies, using resources wisely, designing animal and plant systems to minimise your workload, rebuilding community values, and generally reducing your impact on our precious environment.
The Permaculture Design Course gives a good overview of permaculture principles and practice, with an emphasis on design. At Northey Street, we include significant hands-on practical experience as well.
Visit our Courses and Workshops page for more detail and how to book in.
Spaces are still available for the following sustainable living workshops:
Friday 3 December
Thinking of a tree change? Bus tour – Limited places. 7.30 am – 5 pm. Be inspired by this tour of productive permaculture properties and organic farms in our rural hinterland.Saturday 4 December
Small space container gardening. 9 am – 12 pm. Dreaming of a garden on your balcony? Create a lush microclimate at your doorstep using containers. Come along and learn a myriad of simple, mini scaping techniques to grow healthy food and attract wildlife to your door.Saturday 11 December
Growing and cooking with Asian herbs. 9 am – 12 pm. Enjoy the fresh, tangy taste of asian herbs from your own garden anytime. Learn how to grow asian herbs and vegetables and cook delicious dishes to put a zing in your Yuletide festivities.Saturday 18 December
Paper making with natural fibres. 1 pm – 4 pm. Use nature’s bounty and recycled materials to have fun creating your own unique and beautiful cards and wrapping paper this XmasExpressions of interest for mid week workshops Wednesday mornings 10am – 1pm “Growing Healthy Vegetables” and “Establishing & Maintaining a Healthy Garden.”
We are also taking names for future “Cob oven building” workshops and “build a chicken tractor workshop”.
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To book or learn more information, please visit our workshops page, contact us, or download a booking form. Or why not give the gift of sustainable living to a loved one with a Workshop Gift Voucher?
The 1st October to the 10th is National Organic week and as a recent convert to an Organic more sustainable lifestyle, Debbie Davey has taken on the challenge of getting together a showcase of businesses to promote awareness of organics and sustainable products. As a result, on Saturday 9th of October the first Organic Lifestyle Expo to be held at Northey St City Farm garden area with speakers, relaxed cafe, hand massages and a range of organic and eco friendly products to peruse while enjoying the beautiful setting.
More information is available on the flier by clicking this link: Organic Lifestyle Expo flyer
Spaces are still available for the following exciting and informative sustainable living workshops:
Saturday 28 August
Fermenters Kitchen 9 am to 4 pm
Limited places. Expand your bacterial horizons, cultivate your prebiotic oligosaccharides and join us for a day of cultured beverages, foraged fruits, pickled veggies and other wild microbial wonders. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn the art of traditional food processing and get to sample and enjoy healthy and nutritious fermented foods.
To book or for more information, please contact us or download a booking form. Or why not give the gift of sustainable living to a loved one with a Workshop Gift Voucher?
