Join Cirque du Soil and get down and dirty with the art of the Kokedama at the Off Grid Living Festival, in their immersive Circular Plant Stories workshop series, with GrowGood fertiliser made from food waste rescued from high streets.

Loosely translated, ‘koke’ means moss and ‘dama’ means ball.

BYO small to medium house plant or purchase one on the day. During this hands-on workshop, we’ll provide you with all the materials to craft up your very own personalised kokedama to take home, featuring our proprietary circular potting mix made from urban food waste recovered from Melbourne precincts. (How else do we get our $17 avocado toasts back into the soil?)

All materials used in the workshop are locally sourced, upcycled or fully compostable. For those who prefer a pot, we’ll also be offering a limited series upcycled plant mats and mycelium pots, grown by one of our circular partners, Fungi Solutions.

Bringing your own plant from home?

Fuss free house plants are the go! Here’s some examples of kokedama loving indoor plants:

Pothos (Epipremnum aureum, also known as Devil’s Ivy)
Peace lilies (Spathiphyllum)
Monstera or Fruit Salad plant (Monstera deliciosa)
Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera adansonii)
Philodendron‘Xanadu’
Parlour Palm (Chamaedorea elegans)
Rubber Plant
Syngonium (Also known as Arrowhead or ‘White Butterfly’)
Umbrella Tree (Schefflera Arboricola)
Spider Plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
Rabbits Foot Fern(Davallia)

Can’t see yours on this list? See here

What you'll get

- 1 Kokedama that you'll make in class (and a place to hang it if you're going on a walkabout!)
- All materials included for BYO plants. (Plants and macrame plant hangers will be available for purchase on the day).
- Knowledge on making a good-looking, healthy and long-lasting ethically circular Kokedama

What to bring

- Bring a bunch of creativity and a desire to get your hands dirty!
- Persistance, as it can be a bit tricky at first

Suitable for

This class is perfect for beginners and all ages (kids will need a parent or helping hand from an adult) and anyone keen to learn how to DIY kokedama - no prior experience is needed.

Where will the stall be?

Find us at Stall 283 next to the Feel Good Area and Shady Chill Out zone! See the map here

Who’s running this workshop?

Cirque du Soil aka 'Circular Soil' is a circular waste focused certified social enterprise, actively addressing the missing middle in urban waste in Precincts and Multi-Unit Developments, using place based frameworks to reduce our impact on the planet. We run a Community Compost Collective program, where rescue food waste (meat, shellfish, heck - even your serviettes) from businesses and residents across Melbourne precincts, and convert it into 100% nutrient dense fertiliser within 24 hours in our Community Compost Collective micro-collections program. We call this GrowGood, in a proprietary soil blend to bring you the feelgoods, with these fancy upcycled / compostable plants to share!

Our Mission:

Advocate for urban transitions to circular cities and neighbourhoods
To design out waste in community programs that engage precincts to take climate action through operations, education and consulting
Reduce and divert waste going to landfill
Help local businesses transition to the circular economy through education and brokerage of precinct waste streams to locally manufactured circular products and services
Enable urban CE ecosystem infrastructure to accelerate CE product innovation through access to micro-recycling initiatives and circular outcomes.

Please note we may take photographs/video at our events, please communicate if you are uncomfortable with that to a Cirque du Soil staff member at the event and we will respect your wishes.

Questions? Email us at events@cirquedusoil.com.au