Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop - Mullumbimby
Description
We are bringing our Backyard Food Sovereignty Workshop to the Northern Rivers! This workshop is aimed at kick-starting your journey to regenerative living, by teaching you how to grow abundant, resilient food gardens and how to build efficient closed-loop (composting) systems at home.
We are holding the workshop at a perfect location that is an off grid homestead - early in its establishment that is a great example of how begin the journey and adapt to this style of regenerative living from scratch.
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 spend less on food and garden inputs.
This course is meant for those who want to build food security and landscape resilience in the face of climate and political adversity. It is 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
How to incorporate chickens
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.
Accommodation:
Camping is available on-site. Just get in touch about it first with us.
Practical info
Date & time: 5th & 6th of December, 9am-5pm
Location: Wilsons Creek, Mullumbimby - Address to be announced before workshop commences via email.
Capacity: Max 20 ppl with limited tickets available.
Cost: $385
Contact:
Liv - 0423249449
Taranar - 0413240110
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