Join us to taste seasonal multi-floral honey from the HiveMind Community Apiary Ballarat and single origin honey varieties from across Central and Western Victoria. Hear about the creation of the Apiary, an innovative community enterprise founded by local beekeepers Amanda Collins and Scott Denno supported by a hands on multi-disciplinary advisory team. The Apiary has been developed to provide therapeutic beekeeping and opportunity for horticultural practice for people at risk of or livin...
Read MoreCome and join us for a tour of the garden, bbq, cake stall and plant sale!
Read MoreCome on a tour looking at a range of different edible school gardens. Hear directly from kitchen garden kids and educators about what their very own urban ag site means to them, and see first-hand how they are contributing to their community's local food system.
Read More18th April brings exciting new addition to the SA Autumn Garden Festival with the Well Being Talks, cooking demonstrations in the Well Being Marque. Sophie Thomson will speaking on the benefits of gardening on your Mental Health and Well Being and Yummy gardening. Rebecca Sullivan will sharing tips and tricks for cooking with australian native botanicals. Rebecca Paris from Australian Native Food Co will be demonstrating a crunchy crocodile salad and how to make a healthy Golden Gaytime.
Read MoreThe Premier Garden Festival in SA, nurture your gardening spirit The Festival will have everything for you and your garden needs including plants, garden tools, soils and garden art across over 70 sites. Children's sustainability garden area. Guest Speakers, Costa Georgiardis, Paul Beckerman, Sophie Thomson, Alex Czura, Shaun Kennedy, Rebecca Sullivan. Cooking Demonstrations, Rebecca Price - Australian Native Food Co, Rebecca Sullivan Warndu Mia, good food. Free car parking. Eftpos ...
Read MoreA tour of our city garden looking at practical ways of generating a lot of produce from a city backyard whilst still maintain the function and feel of a backyard. I will discuss multi and repeat sowing techniques, the benefits of plugs or seed starting, seed collecting, a discussion on edible flowers and showing how multi grafted fruit trees are a boon for small spaces. I will also show how we keep our chickens, bees (if established at that time) and our compost set up.
Read MoreWorkshops on Saturday 17th. Rebecca Sullivan - The Art of a Natural Home You will be making – Petal smash n bash tote bag + a flower dyed compost scarf + some flower petal paints + flower face steam and bath salts+ essential oil and herb stress balls- Your own fermented Kraut or Kimchi- Home cleaning products- Blended medicinal teas- Body and face scrub- Face Toner- Lip gloss and Blusher Workshop from 11-3.00 includes all equipment, a swag of goodies to take home and a light lunch bo...
Read MoreOpen garden, swap seeds, plants & produces, social food and Edible Garden Promoter: Volunteer Training program information, harvest and biointensive gardening workshop, bokashi compost fermentation, and liquid biofertiliser making workshop
Read MoreA garden is more than just an outdoor room, a place for relaxation and fun, a place that adds value to your home. It should also be a place of Climate Action where you can connect with the environment and implement changes to reduce your contribution to CO2-e emissions and help build climate resilience. In this Webinar we will use the Climate7 framework (www.cliamte7.com) to explore how gardening and urban farming can be a part of a personal and community Climate Action plan.
Read MoreThe APC is a biennial gathering of permaculture people from around the country and the Asia Pacific region. All people with an interest in permaculture and regenerative development are invited to join us for 4 days of workshops, hands-on activities, and discussions on how we can both celebrate and support nature’s abundance. The Community Gardens & Permaculture Festival will be held on the Sunday before the Convergence, in conjunction with Northey Street City Farm’s weekly Organic Far...
Read MoreWe designed and created a ‘neighbourhood garden’ in the suburb of Herne Hill (Geelong), Victoria from early 2019. An example of urban agriculture. The original aim was: to beautify the neighbourhood, by adding to existing trees and plants at the beginning of a nature reserve and trail path. We found preparing the initial 2 garden beds and planting of 3 crepe myrtle trees (to provide colour and attract pollinators) led to an additional garden bed, planting local and other indigenous plants, p...
Read MoreWe plan a workshop with a guest speaker 10am to 11.30am followed by a tour of the community garden. We plan to have a BBQ and have available for sale plants, seeds, seedlings, worm products and any produce on hand. We could have a guess the herb competition and a potted herb to take home. And a display of how to make a wicking bed to plant your vegies in at home. The day would finish around 3pm.
Read More