Urban Resilient Gardening - Using permaculture to make your home garden resilient

Urban Resilient Gardening - Using permaculture to make your home garden resilient

Sunday 14th July - 1-3.30pm - @ Northbank Community Gardens - Bellingen

Presented by Linda Woodrow, author of the best-selling author of “The Permaculture Home Garden“, and Peter Lewis, President of Coffs Community Gardens and educator at Barcoo Community Gardens, this hands-on, interactive two hour workshop will show you how to make your food garden summer resilient, with a particular emphasis on using small space urban gardens for maximum production.

Topics explored will include:

• using permaculture principles to design an urban garden

• working with your climate, and your range of microclimates

• seasonally adapted gardening and eating

• taking advantage of light and shade

• raising seeds and seedlings

• breeding up pest predators

• techniques for building fertility and water holding capacity in the soil 

• developing ways to avoid gluts and famines in the garden with plant varieties and staggered harvest times

• strategically using vertical spaces, trellises, shaded areas and street scapes and public space to expand your available growing areas

• developing trading relationships of garden produce and other resources with neighbours, family and friends.

AFTERNOON TEA INCLUDED

Brought to you by Bellingen Shire Council, Bellingen Shire Learning Alliance and Northbank Community Gardens