Poultry Systems Establishment within Permaculture Paradise
Come along to a stunning property in Heathmont - one we designed over three years ago - to learn how to set yourself up for chickens and ducks in your backyard. We'll look at and thoroughly explain an integrated chook house-greenhouse-strawyard-run-garden-orchard system. We'll also build a duck pond that uses slope to direct nutrient-rich water to fruit trees, look at sensible duck housing solutions, and generally go through all things duck (note - we think ducks are under-rated in the suburbs!). As part of the day we'll also have a tour of Kim's permaculture system which is like flipping through any permaculture book on suburban possibilities.
Sat, Oct 9th, @9:30am - 01:30PM
Edible Weeds Walk
Many if not most common urban weed species of Melbourne are edible and can provide valuable and nutritious fresh food. Learn to enjoy dandelion, sow thistle, mallow, amaranth, wild onions, wild celery, stinging nettle and many more (with seasonal variation). Many weeds are used by health practitioners for their curative properties. Learn too about some of the ecological uses of weeds as soil improvers, soil indicators and compost additives.
Sat, Oct 30th, @11:00am - 01:00PM
An Introduction to Urban Permaculture
Permaculture is a broad design system for building sustainable human habitats, drawing inspiration from patterns in natural systems.
Sat, Nov 13th and Sat, Nov 20th @9:00am - 04:00PM
Have a look at the VEG website to read more about their workshops and come along, I went to their Fermentation workshop a few weeks ago, it was super great, everything about these guys come highly reccomended.
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