Learn practical skills and how to live sustainably by attending these half-day or full-day workshops, usually on Saturdays. Workshop topics range from bee-keeping to making cheese to basket weaving to growing vegetables seasonally.
Spaces fill up fast for these popular, informative and fun workshops. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
For all our upcoming workshops summary and bookings CLICK HERE.
For information about the Permaculture Design Course CLICK HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: For your security workshop bookings are done through Eventbrite so please beware of individual sellers.
Contact us E: info@nscf.org.au if you have a gift voucher to redeem.
Current workshops
- The Waste Warriors & Master Gardeners Workshop with Brian Donaldson – 30 September 2023
- Food Forests with Michael Wardle – 30 September 2023
- The Basics of Bees – 30 September 2023
- Climate Action Now Made Simple with Adrian Holbeck – 30 September or 25 November 2023
- Grow Your Own Food with Adrian Holbeck and Ella Tisdall – 7 October or 2 December 2023
- What’s This Plant? with Dick Copeman – 7 October 2023
- Planning for Abundance with Michael Wardle – 14th October 2023
- Wildchild Gardens with Tamsin Scott – 27 October 2023
- The Soil Sponge with Jenny Kato – 28 October 2023
- Summer Veggie Gardening with Dick Copeman – 4 November 2023
- Easy Pest Management with Jenny Kato – 11th November 2023
- Fermentation with Naturopath Samantha Somers – 18th November 2023
- Introduction to Permaculture with Michael Wardle – 25th and 26th November
- Medicinal Herbs with Naturopath Samantha Somers – 2nd December 2023
- Murri Tukka Walk, Talk & Tasting with Bruce Phillips – 9th December 2023
30 September 1pm – 4pm & 25 November 9am – 12pm
Climate Action Now Made Simple with Adrian Holbeck
Want to know how to live in a warmer world, to both adapt and mitigate? This practical workshop will help you acquire skills, knowledge and the mindset to enable you to do just that. You’ll leave with more knowledge, practical ideas that can save you money, a different approach to your lifestyle, and a recharged sense of hope!
This workshop is for the deeply concerned who want to take more action at home. We are all in this together and every little bit helps as we share ideas, knowledge, and other resources. If you just want to know more about climate change, this workshop may not be quite right for you.
Proceeds from this workshop will be donated to climate action groups.
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here.
30 September 2023, 9am – 4pm
The Waste Warriors & Master Gardeners Workshop with Brian Donaldson
Featuring a huge range of waste diversion & gardening tips & tricks; with a Teas & Microbial Masterclass!
Are you sick of waste, but don’t know where to start?
You may have tried some things, but they didn’t work out right. Brian will teach you the right way and support you afterwards with fantastic written resources and backup through the students’ page!
Join our commercial worm farmer Brian Donaldson for this fantastic full day event and learn about a huge array of waste reduction & waste diversion tactics. THEN, learn how to apply these to your gardens, in the Teas & Microbials Masterclass!
$120/$102 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
30 September 2023, 10am – 11:30am
Food Forests with Michael Wardle
A food forest is a diverse planting of edible and useful perennials that mimic patterns and relationships.
Food forests are considered to have from three to seven layers, with a canopy of tall nut or fruit trees, several layers of smaller trees and shrubs, and an understory of beneficial ground covers. This workshop will take you through the successional process of designing your own food forest.
$40/$35 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
30 September 2023, 12:30pm to 2pm
The Basics of Bees
Come and learn the hard and fast of what it takes to manage bees, how important they are to our gardens, the joys and some hard lessons learned in beekeeping.
We will be talking from experience, exploring equipment, and we will look at the management required to steward bees.
Come along & get buzzed with us!
$40/$35 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
7 October OR 2 December 2023 9am – 12pm
Grow Your Own Food with Adrian Holbeck and Ella Tisdall
Climate change is affecting food security now. Luckily, you can grow a surprising amount of food in a small space – even on a unit balcony. It’s certainly not too difficult, and Adrian and Ella are here to show you the basics so you can get started! You’ll learn to grow your favourite herbs and veggies the permaculture way (without chemicals!) saving you money AND getting you some home-grown, nutritious foods. Win-win!
You’ll also take home plants you have propagated in the workshop to get your home garden started!
By the end of this 3-hour workshop you will be able to describe what plants need, build your own no-dig garden, plan and plant a compact, nutritious garden, and identify common pest problems and ways to solve them!
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
7 October 2023 1pm – 4pm
What’s This Plant? with Dick Copeman
Join Dick Copeman, Northey Street’s bushtucker man, urban forager and amateur naturalist, as we learn how to recognise the plants all around us in our gardens and local areas. The gardens, orchards and revegetation areas of the Northey Street site will be our learning laboratory, with botanical notes, reference books and apps to guide us.
Bring your smart phone camera with the iNaturalist app loaded on and be prepared to start a learning journey that will hopefully continue for years!
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
14 October 2023, 10am – 11:30am
Planning for Abundance with Michael Wardle
Come learn how we can, through simple planning and design, maximize what we are growing in our space so that we can not only save time in the management, but know what to do when, and plan for the why.
$40/$35 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
27 October 2023, 9am to 4pm
Wildchild Gardens with Tamsin Scott
Discover how to re-wild your garden to inspire endless opportunities for imaginative play. Using nature’s gifts of plants, sand, mud, rock and wood, design a playful wonderland on your doorstep to keep the kids happy for hours on end!
Parents, carers, early childhood educators – this hand’s on, practical and lively workshop provides expert guidance on how to transform your garden for natural play – all for relatively little cost. You will learn about nature play principles, the design process, how spaces and materials ignite creative play and reflect on our own childhoods while we tune in to our children’s play needs. Then we bring all we have learnt into a design hub to develop our beautiful new garden visions as written descriptions, sketches, or a colourful garden plan ready to bring to fruition.
$120/$100 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
28 October 2023, 9am to 12pm
The Soil Sponge with Jenny Kato
This workshop will show you how we can reduce global warming through caring for our soils. Climate change is affecting all of us every day. It is no longer a future scenario – it is now. Thankfully, we can all act to help reduce global warming.
Come and learn about the soil sponge and how it provides resilience to flooding, drought and bushfires, regulates regional temperatures and provides food and water security!
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
4 November 2023, 9am to 12pm
Summer Veggie Gardening with Dick Copeman
Many people say that they can’t grow vegies through the heat and wet of our Brisbane summers. Usually, this is because they try to keep growing the traditional varieties that only grow well in the cooler, drier part of the year.
However, there are many delicious food plants that are well adapted to the warmer and wetter part of the year in SEQ. This workshop will help you select them and provide tips on propagating, planting, caring for, and harvesting them.
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
11 November 2023, 9am to 12pm
Easy Pest Management with Jenny Kato
Struggling to keep the grasshoppers and possums from eating your veggies?
Come along and learn some strategies to keep insect pests under control, reduce weeds, avoid disease and manage birds and possums all without the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides.
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
18 November 2023, 9am to 12pm
Fermentation with Samantha Somers
This 3-hour workshop will cover the basics for how to ferment foods to make Kimchi, Sauerkraut, Kefir, Miso, Kvass and more, presented by Naturopath, Nutritionist, Herbalist and Permaculture educator Samantha Somers of Somers Naturopath.
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
25th & 26th November 2023, 9am – 4pm
Introduction to Permaculture with Michael Wardle
Join us for two days to learn the basics of permaculture design!
This course tackles how to grow food, build houses and create communities, and minimize environmental impact at the same time. It aims to inspire and empower you to use permaculture design in your everyday life.
$270/$230 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
2 December 2023, 9am to 4pm
Medicinal Herbs with Samantha Somers
Plants have astonishing medicinal benefits and herbalism teaches us how we can use herbs in the home to deliver wonderful health benefits.
By integrating permaculture and herbalism, we can live more holistic and sustainable lifestyles.
Come along and learn about the medicinal benefits of the herbs we can grow in the garden and how to make herbal medicine in your kitchen.
$120/$100 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
9 December 2023, 9am to 12pm
Murri Tukka Walk, Talk & Tasting with Bruce Phillips
Join Batjala man, Bruce Gululai Phillips, to taste, smell and touch a variety of locally sourced and personally gathered Traditional First Nations plant foods.
Walk and yarn with Bruce through the Northey Street City Farm bush tukka trail as he shares knowledge of how for thousands of years, First Nations people would gather and prepare these foods.
$75/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
Workshop cancellations
We understand that sometimes circumstances change and participants may not be able to attend a course or workshop that has been paid for.
For workshops (half day, full day and weekend), we require a minimum of 7 days notice for cancellations. We do not provide refunds for any cancellations that are made within 7 days of a workshop. If participants cancel participation in a workshop and are entitled to a refund, they can choose to:
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- Receive a refund
- Opt for a credit for another workshop, to be used within 12 months of the initial workshop.
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Cancellations of workshops by Northey Street City Farm
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- Northey Street City Farm may cancel or change a class at any time, for reasons including but not limited to, lack of participation, inclement weather or facilitator availability.
- Registrants can opt for a full refund, or can use the credit for a future workshop, to be used within 12 months of the date of the initial workshop or course.
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