So far I haven’t met many people who love digging in the garden, so if you’re one of them then this workshop will guide you through the hands on and theory behind building a NO DIG garden.
It’s fun and easy and you can go home and start growing your own vegetables with the knowledge you gain at this workshop!
In Permaculture it’s all about building great soil, so that means keeping the structure of your soil in tact. The more you dig, the more you damage you do to your soil. Instead we want to encourage worms and the little guys under the soil to do all the hard work for us!
Don’t treat your soil like dirt…instead look after it!
Learn about:
How to create and plant a garden in a day
No dig soil preparation
Growing vegetables in a no dig garden
Workshop: 9.30am – 12.30pm
- 9.30am – 10.00am – Welcome & Introductions in our Rammed Earth Permaculture Education Centre
- 10.00am – 12.00pm – No Dig gardening session, learn about building a no dig garden
- 12.00pm – 12.30pm – Tea & Coffee in our Rammed Earth Workshop Room
About the venue:
The property features a seven year old food forest planted on swales, dripping with delicious sub tropical fruits including bananas, guava, feijoa, fig, mango, citrus and stawberries. A chook tractoring system, no dig gardens and a chop and drop mulching system have improved the soil on this rocky ridge where there is now a productive ecosystem. Happy chickens freerange in a fox proof chook house reusing an old caravan. Starting with zone 0 the house has been developed over the last 10 years with design features of rammed earth, light earth and mud brick, solar passive home including an on site grey water treatment system, solar panels and even home grown bench tops!
About the teacher:
Megan Cooke, director of Garden to Table Permaculture has a combined 20 years experience in horticulture, permaculture and outdoor education. Megan taught a ‘Gardening for Sustainability Program’ for the Great Lakes Council and also enjoyed teaching children about growing their own produce in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
For the past seven years Megan has managed Forster Community Garden, working with indigenous and local community volunteers to produce healthy chemical free food. In 2014 Megan visited Malawi in Africa where she completed her second Permaculture Design Course.
Megan is passionate about teaching people the joys of growing and cooking their own organic food and sharing the knowledge she has learnt from her sustainable living journey of building a rammed earth passive solar house surrounded by Permaculture gardens with her husband and two children in Pacific Palms.
*Part of the proceeds from every course is donated to a Permaculture Project in Africa. With our last donation of $200, a small village in Malawi were able to buy some chickens and build and chicken house.
Cost:
$65 – per person
Includes:
- Course notes
- Organic Tea, Coffee & morning tea
When: Sunday 2nd August
Time: 9.30am – 12.30pm
Maximum 12 participants – Book your place now!
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