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
- Successful School Gardening with Jenny Kato and Emma Brindal – 6 August 2022
- Permaculture Design Course – 6 August – 19 November 2022
- Outdoor Learning and the Curriculum with Emma Brindal and Bethan Burton – 13 August 2022
- Worm Farming and Composting at Home with Brian Donaldson – 20 August 2022
- The Work That Reconnects with Emma Brindal – 3 September 2022
- Serious Backyard Abundance with Michael Wardle – 3, 10, 17 September 2022
- Medicinal Herbs with Samantha Somers – 24 September 2022
- The Permaculture Potager – 1 October 2022
- Integrated Pest Management – 8 October 2022
- Rocket Stoves with Tim Barker – 15 October 2022
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 to 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
13 August 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
20 August 2022, 9 am – 12 pm
Worm Farming and Composting at Home with Brian Donaldson
This course will be of interest to keen gardeners, who want to recycle their waste into a beneficial soil conditioner containing plant available nutrients and several naturally occurring plant rooting & growth hormones.
Join commercial worm farmer Brian Donaldson in this half day workshop, as he shares his practical knowledge, tips and tricks for setting up your own safe and efficient worm farm and compost heap at home, and shows you how to avoid some of the common mistakes people make.
More information here.
$60/$45 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
3 September 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
The Work That Reconnects with Emma Brindal and Em Maltby
The Work that Reconnects (WTR) is a supportive framework to reawaken our connection to ourselves, each other and the world.
WTR provides an opportunity to understand and express both our concerns and our love for the Earth and our societies, and to (re)discover and give shape to our hopes. Through our remembering and reawakening, we are able to go forth with new eyes and renewed purpose to contribute to a Life Sustaining Society.
This is an experiential workshop, involving solo processes as well as conversational and group processes.
More information here.
$100/$85 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
3, 10, 17 September 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
Serious Backyard Abundance with Michael Wardle
In this workshop, we will explore the mysteries of the garden. Plants were grown for many purposes—Food, Fibre, Fertility, Insectary, Nectary, Climate, Flowers, Privacy, etc.
We’ll discuss the intensive soil preparation for close planting and continuous cropping, and the growth and care of fruits and vegetables & orchard ecosystem. You will gain invaluable knowledge on the establishment, as well as the ongoing maintenance of a thriving backyard system.
More information here.
$300/$250 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
24 September 2022, 9 am – 12 pm
Medicinal Herbs with Samantha Somers
How can we integrate permaculture principles in and around our homes to establish abundant health and well-being, and resilience?
Tools to build health functionality into our day to day lives, how to create clean living environments for sustainable health and must have plants in medicinal permaculture gardens and how to use them.
Join Samantha Somers Naturopath, Nutritionist, Herbalist, and Permaculture Educator in a morning of sustainable lifestyle and health education.
$60/$45 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
1 October 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
The Permaculture Potager with Michael Wardle
Come spend the day with Michael Wardle, our Adult Education Coordinator, as we look at and explore the Permaculture Potager.
A vegetable garden in France is named a potager which comes from potage, which is vegetable soup. The vegetable patch has often been a part of the garden separated from the rest and treated like a small farm field— ploughed (or rototilled), planted for the season in rows, and then left fallow. The potager is, first of all, a permanent garden— decorative, cultivated by hand methods, integrating shrubs, trees, paths, and herbs, vegetables, and flowers.
In this workshop, we will explore the mysteries of the potager garden. Plants were grown for many purposes—flowers, vegetables, herbs, privacy, etc. We’ll discuss the intensive soil preparation for close planting and continuous cropping, and the growth and care of fruits and vegetables, decorative design—some call it edible landscaping and production for much or all of the year.
$100/$85 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
8 October 2022, 9 am – 12 pm
Integrated Pest Management with Jenny Kato
Are you tired of growing beautiful pesticide-free vegetables only to find the grasshoppers and possums get to them before you do? Are you spending too much time dealing with weeds?
Come along to this workshop to 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.
$60/$45 Healthcare Card Holder plus Eventbrite booking fee
Bookings here
15 October 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
Rocket Stoves with Tim Barker
Rocket stoves are simply the best bang for buck, efficient wood stoves which are also cheap and simple to make.
Say goodbye to wood gobbling, slow to heat backyard pizza ovens, and add a super efficient, fast to heat rocket stove to your life.
Come join Tim Barker as we explore the mysteries of rocket stoves. The emphasis of this workshop will be on the construction of rocket stoves for practical applications using recycled materials.
By the end of this workshop, you will have all the information you need to build an oven that can reach over 500 C in 15 mins on a handful of sticks.
$100/$85 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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