Autumn Program

Create Your Own Food Forest

Fridays, 1:45-2:00pm

April 30 - June 25 (9 Weeks)

Small spaces can yield big results when productive gardens are designed according to permaculture principles. With many of us with limited space, this practical course led by permaculture expert and landscape architect Steve Batley, will help you grow more than you thought possible.

Apr 30- Permaculture Principles - Observation and what is a Food Forest?
May 7 - Design Planning - Process and mud maps
May 14 - Design Planning - Sector analysis & zone planning
May 21 - Succession and Evolution - Complexity in a food forest
May 28 - Propagation - Cutting and grafting
June 4 - Pest Management - An ecological approach
June 11 - Soil Management - An ecological approach
June 18 - Implementation - How to plant plants according to your design
June 25 - Maintenance - How to care for your plants

Food Forest is available as a complete ten week course for face to face participants or as individual sessions via zoom.

* * Each workshop is recorded and you may appear in the published video. Recordings of past topics can be found on Council's youtube channel under the PermaBee playlist.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM via FACE TO FACE

We also run this as a face to face program with an additional hour of hands-on activity after the zoom session finishes. This is currently limited to 10 live participants. You can register here.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM on YOUTUBE

Recordings of past topics can be found on Council's youtube channel under the PermaBee playlist.

PERMABEE GARDENING PROGRAM

Before the afternoon workshops, you are welcome to come gardening with us Friday mornings from 9:00am to 12:30pm and help us plant, weed, and compost. We share a cosy morning tea together and socialise and at the end of each day, you'll share in the bounty of any harvest!

You will work as a team and gain expert guidance from landscape architect Steve Batley, and sustainability educator Julian Lee. Over the course of a year, there is the opportunity to learn specialist skills like pruning, grafting and seed saving.

PermaBees work in the purpose built permaculture garden at Randwick Sustainability Hub.

For more information click here.

GROW IT LOCAL

Randwick Council is a proud supporter of the Grow it Local program that helps connect you with other people in your area that are growing, sharing and eating locally. Check it out!

Winter Program

Gardening on the Wildside

Learn how to create garden homes for tiny native bees, frogs, insects, fairy wrens, blue tongue lizards and other creatures using low maintenance garden techniques that mimic nature and which can provide hours of enjoyment using native Australian plants.

July 16 - Site Analysis
July 23 - Ecosystems and Food Webs
July 30 - Native Bees - with expert Gavin Smith
Aug 6- Native Birds - with expert Renee Ferster Levy
Aug 13 - Frogs and Lizards - with expert Matt Leary
Aug 20 - Preparing the Soil
Aug 27 - Design Process
Sept 3 - Nursery and propagation - with expert Dave Bateman
Sept 10 - Planting Out
Sept 17 - Ongoing Management

Gardening on the Wildside is available as a complete ten week course for face to face participants or as individual sessions via zoom.
* * Each workshop is recorded and you may appear in the published video. Recordings of past topics can be found on Council's youtube channel under the PermaBee playlist.

Spring Program

Growing Big in Small Spaces

Small spaces can yield big results when productive gardens are designed according to permaculture principles. With many of us with limited space, this practical course led by permaculture expert and landscape architect Steve Batley, will help you grow more than you thought possible.

Oct 8 - Permaculture principles - Observation
Oct 15 - Design planning - sector analysis & zone planning
Oct 22 - No waste - compost and worm farming
Oct 29 - Plants, Soil and Bacteria - Guilds
Nov 5 - Propagation - Seeds and cuttings
Nov 12 - Propagation - Transplanting
Nov 19 - Water conservation - Wicking Beds
Nov 26 - Small spaces - Vertical and aquaponics
Dec 3 - Small spaces - Containers and microgreens
Dec 10 - Pest management - plant health and predators

Growing Big in Small Spaces is available as a complete ten week course for face to face participants or as individual sessions via zoom.

* * Each workshop is recorded and you may appear in the published video. Recordings of past topics can be found on Council's youtube channel under the PermaBee playlist.

Summer Program

Your Sustainable Home

Fridays, 1:30-2:30pm

January 29 - March 26 (10 Weeks)

Come on a journey of regeneration where we will examine many aspects of day to day living that can be tweaked to make a big difference to our health, environment and bank account. While the impact will be big, we will be taking a laid back approach!

Jan 29 - Climate Change - Is it real?
Feb 5 - Consumer Power - What role do consumers have
Feb 12 - Energy - Finding cheaper and greener
Feb 19 - Food Production - A regenerative approach
Feb 26 - Native Habitat - Protecting our native critters
Mar 5 - Water and Cleaning - Going cleaner and greener
Mar 12 - Transport - Electric transportation and the sharing economy
Mar 19 - Goals, Planning & Leadership - Your sustainability goals and buddy
Mar 26 - Leadership & Dealing with difficulties

Your Sustainable Home is available as a complete nine week course for face to face participants or as individual sessions via zoom.

* * Each workshop may be recorded and you may appear in the published video. Recordings of past topics can be found on Council's youtube channel under the PermaBee playlist.