Growing Food at Home: Two Day Introductory Course 🌼

🍋🥒🥕Use Your Backyard to Grow Food. It takes better - it is more fun - and it isn't as hard as people make it out to be. 

Join our very own Green Thumb Farm founder Susanne Engelhard for this Growing Food at Home: Introductory Course.  Full of practical demonstrations combined with straightforward local knowledge - you will get all the answers you need to be successfully growing food at home in no time without complication and overwhelm!

The course is held over Saturday & Sunday from 9am - 3.30pm

Saturday 15th June, 2024

Sunday 16th June, 2024

What you will learn:

 

🌼 Getting the Foundations Right

• Sun, Water, Soil (learn how much water and sun is enough, what time is best to water, how to prepare your soil for planting)
• Essential Equipment & Tools (don't waste your money buying things you don't need, but do get the things you do need)
• Direct & Container Gardening (absolutely everything you need to know about raised beds, wicking beds, grow bags, pots, and unground planting - including how to fill them easily, what plants suit which, and even where to buy what. 
  

🌼 Garden Love 

This is where you get to get your hands dirty with some practical, hands on demonstrations. 

• Compost & Worm Farms - your secret sauce
• Weed teas & natural brews to enhance your patch
• Mulch - what to use, what to avoid, when to do it
• Seeds, Seedlings, Cuttings - when, why, what
• Managing weeds in less time

🌼 Pests be gone!

Get the low down on managing pests naturally. From possums to brush turkeys, from caterpillars to grasshoppers learn what works and what doesn't. 

What to bring: 

• Please wear closed shoes
• A hat, water bottle & sunscreen
• Your favourite notebook & pen

Experience level: 

Suitable for beginners - no green thumbs necessary.

Parking:

Free onsite parking (Take the turn off from Mt Samson Rd, into Green Thumb Farm. Take the first turn to the left which leads you past a little red building (this is where you will meet Susanne for the workshop).

About Susanne Engelhard: 

Susanne is actively involved in the locally grown food movement. She co-founded the Samford Edible Garden Trail, is Head of Operations of Green Thumb Farm, and recently launched the inaugural Moreton Bay Farm Trail in 2024. You can follow her growing adventures at growingmadesimple.com.au

"I eat from my garden everyday, and I love it.  I grow my food organically, using minimal dig and practical permaculture principles that save me time.  Any chance I get I love to share how I do it, and I hope this inspires other people to give it a go and realise that you can do it too - even if you too are juggling a busy life! Susanne