Course: A – Z of Growing Organic Veggies at Home
When: Saturday 26th August
Time: 1 pm – 5pm
Venue: Garden to Table Permaculture, Mid North Coast NSW, Pacific Palms, Australia, just 3 hours driving north of Sydney
Includes: afternoon tea
Cost: $150 – per person
Earlybird price: $124.50 – pay by 5th of August
Payment options: Direct deposit or click on the BUY TICKET button below for credit card payment
Direct Deposit:
Account name: Garden to Table Permaculture
BSB: 082 603
Account number: 15-641-7777
Includes:
- A laminated Garden to Table Permaculture Companion Planting Guide
- Course notes
- A delicious afternoon tea
Join in a one day hands on Permaculture Course and Organic Gardening Gardening Course just 3 hours north of Sydney at Pacific Palms. You will learn how to grow organic vegetables, make organic compost, organic weed control, what to plant with what and much more! Situated on Permaculture Demonstration Property at Pacific Palms.
Learn about:
Composting & no dig soil preparation
A – Z of Growing Fruit & Veggies at home
Growing vegetables to suit your conditions: balcony, suburban, acres
What to plant for a bumper Sesaonal harvest
Companion Plants & Integrated Pest Management
Permaculture Ethics and Principles
Permaculture Tips & Tricks including nutrient cycling & zones
Permaculture Garden Design through garden tour
Enjoy: A delicious afternoon tea
Workshop: 1pm – 5.00pm
- 1pm – Welcome & Introductions in our Rammed Earth Permaculture Education Centre
- 1.30pm – 2.00pm – Tour of the Permaculture Garden & collect plants for cuttings
- 2.00 – 3.30pm – Hands on planting activity
- Learn to identify useful plants for an edible garden – take cuttings & samples home
- Design your Fruit and Vegetable garden from the soil up, what to plant, companions & pest & diseases
- 3.30 – 4pm – Enjoy a delicious homemade afternoon tea
- 4pm – 5pm – A – Z of Organic Gardening
About the venue:
The property features a eight 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 24 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 seven years, Megan 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 our business is donated to our Permaculture Project in Africa. With our last donation of $250, Hardwell and his family in Malawi were able to buy some chickens and build and chicken house.
Maximum 15 participants – Book your place now!
