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.
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Contact us E: info@nscf.org.au if you have a gift voucher to redeem.
Current workshops
- Simple Mushroom Cultivation with Heath Freed – 14 May 2022
- Outdoor Learning and the Curriculum with Emma Brindal and Bethan Burton – 21 May 2022
- Urban Forage with Dick Copeman – 4 June 2022
- Hands On Wicking Beds with Michael Wardle – 11 June 2022
- The Fundamentals of Food Forestry with Michael Wardle – 11 June – 16 July 2022
- Introduction to Garden Ferments with Michael Wardle – 25 June 2022
- Successful School Gardening with Jenny Kato and Emma Brindal – 6 August 2022
- Permaculture Design Course with Michael Wardle – 6 August – 19 November 2022
14 May 2022, 9am – 4pm
Simple Mushroom Cultivation with Heath Freed
Join us for an educational day of mushroom cultivation for use on your property. Whether a small yard, or large acreage, you can successfully cultivate useful mushrooms for nutrition, soil health, medicine, and even art.
In this workshop, we will be exploring the use of the simple-to-grow Oyster mushrooms and how they can be applied in different ways, especially Permaculture systems. We will cover the lifecycle of Oyster mushrooms, basic hygiene, how to employ mushrooms in your systems, and methods to expand the fungi for larger scale use.
We will also talk about the various uses of other types of fungi, through experimentation.
As part of this hands-on workshop, we will make ‘expansion spawn’ containers as well as a ‘fruiting’ container, so you can enjoy the ‘fruits’ of your labour a few weeks later!
$100/$85 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
21 May 2022, 9am – 4 pm
Outdoor Learning and the Curriculum with Emma Brindal and Bethan Burton
This practical workshop demonstrates how the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority area of Sustainability can be addressed while taking learning outdoors. The content draws on place-responsive pedagogies and nature connection practices which connect students to place and foster care of the natural world.
More information here.
$140/$90 Student or unwaged plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
4 June 2022, 9am – 12 pm
Urban Forage with Dick Copeman
Explore the many foods available in our city beyond your front gates.
Join Dick Copeman as he explores the many foods available in our city beyond your front gates.
Together you will learn about edible weeds, uncovering the secret fruits of the city, and that sometime the best food isn’t found in the supermarket but all around you.
$45/$60 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
11 June 2022, 1pm – 4 pm
Hands On Wicking Beds
Wicking beds are a smart way to water plants from below, providing consistent damp conditions.
These self-watering systems allow water stored in the base to ‘wick’ up through the soil. Having water readily available at the roots helps healthy plant growth and reduces mildew or fungal problems.
In this workshop, you will be shown how to build your own wicking bed.
What you’ll learn:
• how to build your own wicking planters
• essentials for organic container growing
• tips for edible gardening
$60/$45 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee.
Bookings here
11 June to 16 July 2022, 9am – 12 pm
The Fundamentals of Food Forestry 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. These multi-layered spaces allow you to fit a wide range of annual and perennials in a small area. Creating symbiotic relationships between elements produces a high yield of food and resources over the long term with minimal inputs. Food forests can be performing many ecological functions. They are considered one of the most regenerative and resilient production systems for a changing world.
This course will take you through the successional process of designing your own food forest. Each week, we will have three hours of learning and resources and videos to continue our education throughout the week. The class is limited to engage in group discussions and receiving support on your individual designs. People of all levels of experience are welcome. It is suggested that you have a few additional hours each week to work on your own design and some homework to get the most out of the course. You will leave the course with the fundamentals of food forestry, a food forest design, as well as a guide for how to implement it.
More information here.
$300/$250 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
25 June 2022, 1pm – 4pm
Introduction to Garden Ferments with Michael Wardle
Come join Michael Wardle as we explore how we can increase the resilience and productivity of our gardens by applying what we learn from nature.
Garden fermenting is the process of cultivating local Microorganisms through simple, natural, and affordable methods. Garden fermenting, both aerobic and anaerobic, allows gardeners to create all organic and high-grade living fertilizers for our gardens.
In this course, we will look at where these ideas have come from and how they can be applied. This will include how to make some of the ferments and how to apply them.
This class is designed to enable anyone to become a microbial gardener.
Michael has been applying these ferments in his gardens for over 12 years and talks from experience on not only how we can create these ferments, but how we can use them also for maximum affect.
$60/$45 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
6 August 2022, 9am – 4pm
Successful School Gardening: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers and School Community Members with Jenny Kato and Emma Brindal
This workshop will introduce the practicalities of establishing and maintaining a school garden using permaculture practices and principles. It will also cover ways in which the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority area of Sustainability can be addressed and be applied to Learning Areas . It is for teachers and school community members who are wanting to establish new gardens, or who already have gardens that you are wanting to rejuvenate. These strategies can be applied for any budget that the school has for a garden.
$140/$90 Student or unwaged plus Eventbrite booking fee
More information here
Bookings here
6 August – 19 November 2022, 8:30am – 4:30pm
NSCF Permaculture Design Course
This unique course, delivered over 16 weeks in Brisbane, gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from natural patterns to create productive gardens & properties. You will learn how to grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, use resources wisely, build on living systems and rebuild communities.
Learn to:
Build Resilience through Connectivity
Facilitate Regeneration of the Earth
Create Abundance through Design
The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) builds from its foundation in ethics and design principles to develop strategies giving you the techniques and tools to inspire critical thinking.
More information here.
Early Bird: $1140/$873 Healthcare Card Holder (full payment one month prior to course commencement)
General: $1250/$930 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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