This Organic Gardening Winter Workshop near Forster NSW, just 3 hours north of Sydney at Pacific Palms is all about Permaculture in action. Learn from Permaculture Teacher Megan Cooke from her productive backyard Permaculture Garden, set on the beautiful Mid North Coast.
Boomerang, Bluey’s & Elizabeth Beaches just 5 mins away
Have you always wanted to grow your own fruit and vegetables but don’t know where to start?
Or do you have an existing productive garden but want to learn more?
Would you like to meet like minded people who share the same passion of growing organic produce in abundance? Then this Permaculture workshop is for you!
Learn about:
Composting & no dig soil preparation
What to plant for a bumper Winter harvest
Companion Plants for the Winter garden
Integrated Pest Management
Permaculture Tips & Tricks including nutrient cycling & zones
Organic Garden Design
Enjoy: A delicious harvest lunch & afternoon tea
Workshop: 10.00am – 4.00pm
- 10.00am – 10.30am – Welcome & Introductions in our Rammed Earth Permaculture Education Centre
- 10.30am – 12.00pm – Tour of the Permaculture Garden & Composting Session
- 12.00pm – 1.00pm – A delicious homemade lunch celebrating the Winter harvest
- 1.00 – 3.30pm – Plan your Winter garden from the soil up, what to plant, companions, pest & diseases, hands on planting session
- 3.30 – 4pm – Enjoy a delicious homemade afternoon tea
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.
Cost:
$165 – per person
$145 – Early Bird Price Pay before 16th June
Includes:
- A laminated Companion Planting guide (valued at $10)
- Course notes
When: Saturday June 20th 2014
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Maximum 12 participants – Book your place now!
