Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop - Central Coast
Description
We are bringing our Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop to Freedom Farm, a very special location where you will learn how to apply regenerative living to your life. Camping and rooms are available on the property - more info on that below.
This Workshop is designed to kick-start your journey to regenerative living, teaching you how to grow abundant, resilient food gardens and how to build efficient closed-loop (composting) systems at home. We teach in the living classroom followed by practicals that allow you to really understand and embody the knowledge.
You’ll learn how to design resilient systems, produce organic food using regenerative techniques in both a kitchen garden & a food forest setting, and how to turn waste into a valuable resource through different types of home composting systems. These skills will not only give you food & resources, but will cut your household costs as you become less reliant on largescale food systems and synthetic fertilisers.
People are waking up to the reality that we need to localise in order to create more resilient, robust systems, starting with our home. SO we made this course for those who want to build food security and landscape resilience in the face of climate and political adversity, and for those who want to understand how to have a reciprocal relationship with the land they’re on, becoming caretakers and also receivers of the abundance the land provides.
Our content can be applied to rural, semi-urban and urban blocks. All principles are able to be altered to suit your lifestyle.
What you’ll learn:
Efficient design for high-yield, resilient edible landscapes
Building a kitchen garden from scratch
Polycultures, guilds, succession planting, seasonal planning
Integrated pest management
Home composting: worm farm, chickens, hot/cold composting
Food forest design and management - stacking in time and space
Nutrient cycling using household waste and garden waste
Land regeneration & mushroom production
How to plan & phase a backyard project in your home immediately
Schedule:
Day 1
Foundations & design: site assessment, design techniques (zones, sectors), elements & placement.
Lunch - Home cooked meal with home grown ingredients.
Building a kitchen garden, incorporating medicinal herbs & dynamic accumulators.
How to incorporate chickens into your system.
Day 2
Nutrient Cycling - compost, fertilisers and manures.
Build a worm farm
Application of homemade fertilisers.
Food forest walk and talk
Lunch - Home cooked meal with home grown Ingredients.
Agroforestry practical - hands on chop and drop session.
Outdoor fungi production practical.
What to bring:
Pen & notepad, sun protection, water bottle, enclosed shoes & pruning tools.
We provide: Plenty of tools, handouts, Catered lunch.
Practical info
Date & Time: 19th-20th of September, 9am-5pm
Location: Freedom Farm, Central Coast, NSW
Capacity: Max 20 ppl with limited tickets available.
Cost: $385 (including lunch for two days)
Accommodation:
Camping & rooms available, enquire with us to book in any accommodation.
Contact:
Liv - 0423249449
Taranar - 0413240110
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
