Circular Gardening (at Sharda)
Event description
What's Circular Gardening?
It's keeping everything on site (all the weeds), and making exquisite compost from it.
The result - you can cancel your garden waste collection, stop trying to hide the weeds in corners of your section, stop burning green waste, and most importantly, stop buying compost made from goodness knows what.
Blue Borage models a unique approach to gardening, and it's truly circular.
There's no greenwashing here, just best practice (biodynamic) gardening applied to the home garden, lifestyle block, workplace, community centre or small business.
How the workshops run:
We start with a meet & greet, some Q&A about common weeds and composting questions in your garden, and then we get into action.
This is both theory and practice, and the goal is for you to go home (or back to work) and refine your own composting and gardening systems to be more circular.
Most workshops in September will be focused on getting hot composting systems operational, and then a secondary focus will be building a biodynamic CPP pit to make the Biodynamic Cow Pat Pit preparation. There is a food forest in development with a range of fruit trees needing some underplanting as we clear the weeds away from that part of the garden.
What to bring:
- Gumboots, or sturdy shoes suited to gardening on uneven slopes with blackberry and other invasive weeds.
- Wear suitable clothes for gardening. We will go ahead in light rain.
- Gardening gloves.
- You may have favourite gardening tools you'd prefer to use. Secateurs? A lucky bucket? You're welcome to bring those, but please make sure they are labelled.
- Notebook and pen to take notes.
- Sunhat, water bottle, remember to put on some sunscreen in the morning.
- You are welcome to bring a snack and stay afterwards to enjoy the bush walk and forest area around Sharda. It's ideal for meditation or artwork. Perhaps your idea of relaxation is a picnic blanket and a book?